{"id":1696,"date":"2005-08-13T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2005-08-14T01:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2005-08-13T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2005-08-14T01:47:56","slug":"ap-republican-party-shells-out-money-to-defend-voter-suppression-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"AP: &#8216;Republican Party shells out money to defend voter suppression case&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by <a href=\"http:\/\/psstpsstpsst.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Patriot<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>No! We are <i>not<\/i> making this up! We have it via <i>Lex18<\/i> in Lexington, KY and the headline reads: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lex18.com\/global\/story.asp?s=3708990&#038;ClientType=Printable\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Party shells out money to defend voter suppression case<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The Republican Party is footing the bill for a former Bush campaign official charged with election dirty tricks in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a stated <b>zero-tolerance policy<\/b> on tampering with voters, the party has quietly paid nearly three-quarters of a million dollars for private defense lawyers for James Tobin.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire in 2002. Republican John Sununu won the close Senate election.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Tobin worked with a state G-O-P official and a consultant in Virginia to jam Democratic and labor union get-out-the-vote phone banks.<\/p>\n<p>The other two have pleaded guilty and are cooperating with prosecutors.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s a <i>zero-tolerance policy<\/i> on what, exactly? Could it be a zero-tolerance policy on <i>democracy<\/i>, by any chance? <\/p>\n<p><i>A tip of the BRAD BLOG hat to a loyal BRAD BLOG reader for that great catch. No names, please: You know who you are, don&#8217;t you, John?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Winter Patriot No! We are not making this up! We have it via Lex18 in Lexington, KY and the headline reads: Republican Party shells out money to defend voter suppression case The Republican Party is footing the bill for a former Bush campaign official charged with election dirty tricks in New Hampshire. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}