Monday, April 17, 2006

Thundering silence from Washington

They are hoping that this will fae too. Fat chance, Buhsites!

Portsmouth Herald Editorial: Thundering silence from Washington:

"The basic facts of the now-infamous Election Day phone-jamming episode are not in dispute. On Nov. 5, 2002, New Hampshire Republicans used a Virginia telemarketing company to tie up telephone hot lines for about 90 minutes to thwart get-out-the-vote efforts by state Democrats and a firefighters union in Manchester.

At stake was a U.S. Senate seat and possibly control of the closely divided legislative body. Republican John E. Sununu, then the 1st District member of Congress, defeated Gov. Jeanne Shaheen by about 20,000 votes.

A major federal investigation into this disgraceful episode has yielded three convictions, including two GOP officials - former state GOP executive director Charles McGee and James Tobin, at the time the New England political director for the Republican National Committee.

Tobin, who was President Bush's New England chairman before stepping down in 2004 when he became a target of the investigation, has appealed his conviction. "

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