"How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative"

[WilliamPitt]

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

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.

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."

Anyway, check out the book and we're working on getting Mr. Raymond over here to TPM to discuss the book and perhaps answer your questions.

--Josh Marshall

The book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Rig-Election-Confessions-Republican/dp/1416552227

[proud patriot]

1. Perfect Christmas Present

:evilgrin: Hi Will , hope your holiday is great

[annabanana]

2. Thanks for the head's up!

Haven't seen you around in awhile... Hope you're hale & hearty!

[liberalnurse]

3. Hi Will...............

:hi:

I'm glad to see you stopped in to post. Hope you have a warm and cozy Holiday.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. sounds juicy...

Thanks!

[lonestarnot]

5. Do we have to give him a warm reception?

[liberalnurse]

6. Absolutely!

He has earned it.

By the way, may I ask you to be nice tonight?

[lonestarnot]

7. Ugh no and no as I wasn't talking to you.

OH! :evilgrin:

[tavalon]

8. No.

We choose to. You can choose differently. On a different thread. In other words, piss off.

[lonestarnot]

9. Bite me! I wasn't talking to you either! My post is clearly directed to Will Pitt, owner of Hairy

Bastid, so buzz the fuck off!

[liberalnurse]

11. Here, go back under the bridge with the rest of your pals.

[lonestarnot]

14. Right Sista Cratchet.

[liberalnurse]

15. Thank you..........

Nurse Ratchett is my mentor. O8)

[tavalon]

33. Lol

Yeah, as one nurse to another, I think we can agree she's a hero to us all! :7

[lonestarnot]

17. Yeah, well that makes perfect sense.

[tavalon]

13. No it wasn't.

I quote:

"Do we have to give him a warm reception?"

Let's deconstruct that, shall we? First, "we", is either the royal we, or the peanut gallery of DUers. You aren't royal and I'm one of the peanut gallery. Therefore, you were addressing me. Second, you should have used "you" instead of "him" in the second part of your sentence if you really were addressing Will. You were actually using a sideways snipe and I called you on it. We wouldn't be having this little conversation otherwise.

[lonestarnot]

16. The question was directed to Pitt. The use of we, you are correct, was intended to mean subject

DUers and in that event, you've probably never been on a snipe hunt, and I am not having this conversation, you are having it with yourself, as I NEVER snipe sideways! Always fucking head-on, so why don't you head-on, APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD. And by the way, I am royal as is indicated in my screen name STAR, LONESTARNOT (and, yes, that would be a DUer reference, dee dee fucking dee)

[tavalon]

18. I have no fucking idea what you just said

Oh, and your comment was quite sideways. Ta ta.

[lonestarnot]

37. Good as I told you, you are were having a conversation with yourself.

And you claim to be a fucking nurse who is required to read doctors' orders? OMG scarey.

[rucky]

10. luv yr sig line, btw!

[lonestarnot]

12. woot! me too.

[NewHampster]

19. you who has no friends I have a question

Why are you being an ass?

Will has told us some interesting news about this book that exposes the rethugs.

Will has more good Democratic genes in his pinkie than you have in your entire spineless body.

The only reasons I can think for you to troll will's thread is that you are A) A brainless nincompoop or B) a rethug troll.

Either way you are an ass. And I have better things to do than get into your playful games so I will move on.

[liberalnurse]

20. Well said!

:applause: :applause: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause: :applause:

You read my mind, spoken from the heart.:loveya:

[WilliamPitt]

21. What the hell is going on?

So confused...

[walldude]

22. Kinda wondering that myself...

Although I do love this line: "After 10 full years inside the GOP, 90 days among honest criminals wasn't really any great ordeal." :rofl: :rofl:

[NewHampster]

23. that jerk lonestarnot was stalking my bud Liberalnurse

Edit: How the heck are you Will?

[Horse with no Name]

34. Hardly. I think your "pal" misunderstood and attacked first. n/t

[lonestarnot]

40. Thanks for watching my back HWNN!

I had to leave. :hug:

[Horse with no Name]

41. Anytime my friend

You know I don't mind going to the mat.:D

[Horse with no Name]

24. Let me help you out here Will

[tavalon]

26. I love that one!

I use it liberally. I also use a quote I picked up from Will. Unfortunately, I forgot to use it on Lonestarnot. That being "get over your bad self!"

[tavalon]

25. Oh, come on Will, you know there are people who stalk your threads

just to poop on you. I just decided to play with one. Sorry I hijacked your OP, but at least it continued to get bumped so more people could see it.

[WilliamPitt]

27. I didn't know if it was something else.

:shrug:

[Horse with no Name]

28. I think several misinterpreted what lone said

thought she was talking about being nice to you, when, I took it as she was asking if we had to be nice to the republican guy.

[WilliamPitt]

29. Gotcha.

Thanks.

[tavalon]

31. Yikes

Looking back, I can see that I may well have misinterpreted. Too bad, cause I was having great fun sharpening my claws on him. They are like, razor sharp now. I'll go back and ask him.

[lonestarnot]

38. Learn how to fucking read claw.

[tavalon]

32. Did you mean giving Will Pitt a warm reception,

or the Republic guy? Mea Culpa if you meant the latter. I thought you were dissing Will Pitt. I get terribly tired of the circular firing squad, but if your fire was directed toward the Thug, fire on dude!

[lonestarnot]

39. Take your mea culpa and your stupid ass to hell.

[yodermon]

43. This is quite possibly the strangest sub-thread I've ever read on DU.

IBTL, FWIW.

[WilliamPitt]

44. It's art.

:crazy:

[donheld]

30. Let's just hope for an audience besides

the choir. :hi: Welcome back Mr Pitt.

[blondie58]

35. this looks like a good one

and I love the picture on the cover! Thanks for the heads up, Will!

[Judi Lynn]

36. This sounds wonderful. Have been hoping some of them would finally break with the group

and start letting the public know what they've been doing against the country. This looks like a perfect beginning. Hope to see others, as well. Ohio and Florida voting would be EXCELLENT subjects for "disenchanted" operatives to illuminate.

Here's his photo:

http://betsydevine.com.nyud.net:8090/blog/pictures/AllenRaymond.jpg

Allen Raymond

[mmonk]

42. Thanks for the heads up.

Might make a great present for the holidays.