Bush Campaign Official Indicted for Election Tampering!

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Think they wouldn’t do it? Think again.

Bush/Cheney’s 2004 Northeast Regional Campaign Director is indicted:

In 2002, six phone lines run by the Democrats and the Manchester firefighters union were tied up for 1 1/2 hours by 800 computer-generated hang-up calls. Federal prosecutors said [James] Tobin and other Republicans had hired a company to make the calls to disrupt the organizations’ get-out-the-vote efforts.

Tobin was charged with conspiracy to commit telephone harassment and aiding and abetting. He could get up to five years in prison.

Among the races affected by the jamming was the Senate contest between Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Rep. John E. Sununu. Sununu won by about 20,000 votes.

“I think it’s unfortunate the Justice Department delayed, for whatever reasons that it did, until after the election,” state Democratic chairwoman Kathy Sullivan said

Over the summer, Chuck McGee, former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and admitted paying $15,600 to a Virginia telemarketing company that hired another business to make the calls. A GOP consultant with the telemarketing company also pleaded guilty. The two men are awaiting sentencing.

Please note that Josh Marshall reported way back in October on Tobin and his involvement in the 2002 campaign phone-jamming scandal.

Which, Marshall pointed out back then, meant that the Bush/Cheney campaign knew full-well about Tobin’s involvement in the scandal for at least three and a half months before he was forced to resign due to Democrat complaints about his position in the Bush/Cheney campaign.

Still think they wouldn’t do it? If they’d go to such lengths for a mid-term senate race, after all…Why would they have stopped attempting to fix elections in 2004, the fight of their lives?

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    Steve said on 12/2/2004 @ 5:26am PT: [Permalink]

    It’s not surprising to see the geographical area that Tobin was in charge of, either. In my opinion, the 2000 election was the fight of their lives as well, setting up the years since to support this unholy agenda we are living with today. It’s not beyond belief that these kinds of things have been going on for some time.

    This is a blip on the radar. We need to continue placing pressure upon breaking points to expose them all for the desperate people they are, for we know these men and women do desperate things.

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    understandinglife said on 12/2/2004 @ 6:21am PT: [Permalink]

    The first of many if we do our duty to each other and to our Constitution.

    Peace.

    "I Declare The 2004 Election Invalid: Someone I do not know was prevented from voting"

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