Former Bush campaign official's phone jamming trial begins

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/12/05/former_bush_campaign_officials_phone_jamming_trial_begins/

Former Bush campaign official's phone jamming trial begins
By Beverley Wang, Associated Press Writer | December 5, 2005

CONCORD, N.H. --When President Bush's former New England campaign chairman goes on trial Tuesday on charges he orchestrated an Election Day phone-jamming plot in New Hampshire, state Republicans say they'll be closing the book on a lengthy criminal investigation inherited from an old guard.


James Tobin, of Bangor, Maine, has pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiring against rights; one count of conspiring to commit telephone harassment; and two counts of aiding and abetting in telephone harassment.

Former state Republican Party chairman Chuck McGee and Allen Raymond, of Alexandria, Va.- based GOP Marketplace LLC, previously pleaded guilty for their role in the plot, which paralyzed get-out-the-vote phone banks run by the Democratic Party and Manchester's firefighter's union for more than an hour on Nov. 5, 2002. McGee and Raymond were sentenced to monthslong prison terms; both appear on government and defense witness lists for Tobin's trial, which is expected to last eight days.

While state Republicans look forward to the end, state Democrats will be watching the trial eagerly for details to cement their theory that the 2002 plot is connected to a larger web of Republican ethics scandals.

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1. Plenty of room in the federal prison in Ayer

...once he has been tried and convicted, of course.

[MaineDem]

2. Is that what they did to Devens?

I was wondering what would happen to it. It's really a federal prison now?

Tobin deserves every minute he gets behind bars.

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3. yes

It's been developed rather nicely. The old officers quarters are private homes, the noncoms quarters are low income. There are many manufacturing/lab buildings. A new golf course. New hotel and restaurants. And of course the prison & medical facility. The south post is still actively used for training.

[MaineDem]

5. What happened to the flight facility?

Sorry to hijack this thread. I used to live near Ayer. We used to go for pizza in town.

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6. no idea

I've never been anywhere near that, was it south post?

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4. This deserved a better fate - cross-posted to GDP

Zero comments in 26.5 hours? Wake up!

Hope it does better there -
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