TPM: Phone Jammer Op's book on "How to Rig an Election..." is AWESOME!

[mod mom]

PHONE-JAMMISTAS BEHOLD!
Longtime readers of this site know that the history of TPM is rather intertwined with the history of the 2002 New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal. In case you don't remember, that's the case where the state Republican party (almost certainly with the knowledge and probably with the cooperation of the national party) hired a phone bank to jam the phones of the Dems' and the local firefighters' GOTV phone banks.

The guy close to the center of the whole scam was the media operative/consultant hired to run the operation, Allen Raymond. And he's written a new tell-all book, How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative.

Now, as you probably know, most tell-all books are more like tell-little or tell-nothing books. We've still got one reader still sulking because he was hounding us for days about why we weren't giving more attention to the Scott McClellan memoir non-bombshell. But I got word yesterday that Raymond's offering is the real deal. Our copy arrived at the office today. And upon a limited initial perusal the normally low-key and laconic Paul Kiel concludes that it is "awesome." So that's saying a lot.

As it happens, this is not surprising from what we've seen thus far of Raymond. Of all the phone-jam scammers, he was the only one who not only took his criminal justice lumps but seemed genuinely to want to wash his hands of the whole rotten business. The rest, as you'd expect, are back on the GOP payroll in most cases after a short pitstop in the can.

-snip

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/061356.php

Looking to reading this one!

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

1. He's being "allowed" to publish what amounts to evidence of a crime?

:shrug:

[flashl]

2. I followed the phone jam saga with great interest, it never seem to got traction

"Raymond on his sojourn in the slammer: "After 10 full years inside the GOP, 90 days among honest criminals wasn't really any great ordeal."

[MissWaverly]

3. why is there no accountability at the RNC for this

I still don't understand how the few bad apples who happened to be on the phone to both the WH and the RNC were punished, the
Republican election campaigns have always been heavily supervised, there is no way that this did not get approval from the top.

[mod mom]

4. I think the hope is that it will lead to accountability. I personally hate to dish

out bucks for their criminal activity, but if what TPM's Paul Kiel (who I respect) says is true...then all the power to the exposure. I wish our Dems were doing more to demand accountability in this area. I thought for sure Chairman Conyers would have done more. Still it needs to be fully exposed.

[MissWaverly]

5. I hope so

there is so much wrong now and I cannot believe the arrogance of those involved, everything from purging voter rolls to phone jamming
to smears, whisper campaigns, etc. They have trashed our elections process, and for what, there has been not one good thing that has
come from all this lying, cheating and stealing.