{"id":2008,"date":"2005-11-12T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2005-11-12T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T19:16:05","slug":"rncs-vote-obstructing-phone-jamming-head-of-ne-regional-04-campaign-heads-to-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2008","title":{"rendered":"RNC&#8217;s Vote-Obstructing Phone-Jamming Head of NE Regional &#8217;04 Campaign Heads to Trial&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-na-briefs12.3nov12,1,1451258.story\">From <i>LA Times<\/i>&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>GOP Voting Obstruction Case Bound for Trial<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A former national Republican Party official will stand trial on charges he conspired to jam Democratic get-out-the-vote phone lines on election day 2002, a federal judge said in Concord. <\/p>\n<p>Judge Steven McAuliffe rejected an argument by James Tobin that the conspiracy charges should be dismissed because the government&#8217;s allegations were insufficient. A trial for Tobin, who in 2002 was political director of the national committee working to get Republican senators elected, is scheduled for Dec. 6.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Josh Marshall has been doing some excellent reporting on this case as it&#8217;s developed over the last year or so. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/006270.php\">This link<\/a> should get you caught up.<\/p>\n<p>Of note here, keep in mind that a) Tobin was working for the <i>national<\/i> Republican Party, he wasn&#8217;t some loose-cannon, bad apple, lone agent, b) The phone-jamming scandal was in the &#8217;02 election, yet the RNC hired Tobin to head their &#8217;04 Northeastern Regional Campaign even <i>after<\/i> they knew he was in trouble for the &#8217;02 shenanigans and c) The RNC, as of August, had so far covered his $700k legal bills, that much before the trial had even begun.<\/p>\n<p>Next time a wingnut tosses you the canard about some tires slashed in Milwaukee by a couple of kids, remind them of <i>this<\/i> guy, <i>still<\/i> on the RNC&#8217;s payroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From LA Times&#8230; GOP Voting Obstruction Case Bound for Trial A former national Republican Party official will stand trial on charges he conspired to jam Democratic get-out-the-vote phone lines on election day 2002, a federal judge said in Concord. Judge Steven McAuliffe rejected an argument by James Tobin that the conspiracy charges should be dismissed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-2008","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\/2008","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}