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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 02:37 AM
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GOP Paying Legal Bills of Bush Official (in NH Vote Fraud case...)
WASHINGTON - Despite a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with voters, the Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.

James Tobin, the president's 2004 campaign chairman for New England, is charged in New Hampshire federal court with four felonies accusing him of conspiring with a state GOP official and a GOP consultant in Virginia to jam Democratic and labor union get-out-the-vote phone banks in November 2002.

A telephone firm was paid to make repeated hang-up phone calls to overwhelm the phone banks in New Hampshire and prevent them from getting Democratic voters to the polls on Election Day 2002, prosecutors allege. Republican John Sununu won a close race that day to be New Hampshire's newest senator.

At the time, Tobin was the RNC's New England regional director, before moving to President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050811/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_voter_suppression;_ylt=Al6Krn3010g_Mmxi1YgtNleyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

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Doo_Revolution Donating Member (186 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 03:07 AM
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1. Can someone please get this evidence over to Howard Dean?
Edited on Thu Aug-11-05 03:07 AM by Doo_Revolution
It should be blasted literally everywhere when election reform is brought up, just to show Ken Mehlman is a self-hypocritical sputtering loser.

He stated universally that he supports stopping vote fraud, and here is his own party being convicted of it. That was today, and Howard should be all over them for it!!
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 09:00 AM
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2. a telephone firm paid to make repeated hang-up phone calls???
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