John Sununu, beneficiary of GOP illegal phone jamming in 2002, projects

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John H. Sununu: Dishonest, desperate Democrats are on the attack

By JOHN H. SUNUNU

On the last Sunday in September, in a front page article, The New York Times reported that the Democrats' strategy against Republicans in 2010 would be to use aggressive attacks on personal issues in an attempt to "save" their elections. The Times reported that Democrats across the country have been instructed to avoid discussing their fiscally irresponsible policies and to run "negative advertising against Republicans using lawsuits, tax filing reports . . . and even divorce proceedings to try to discredit their opponents."

This is exactly what Gov. John Lynch and the Democrats are trying to do in New Hampshire. In an effort to change the subject from the disastrous results of his inept spend-and-tax policies and from the debilitating national burden of trillion-dollar deficits, the governor and his state party have unleashed the attack experts of their political committees to do their usual distract-and-destroy messaging.

We see those efforts in the dishonest telephone "push polling" they have started against fiscally conservative New Hampshire state Senate candidates. John Lynch himself is running ads against John Stephen that attempt to dishonestly malign his character. In the congressional races, Rep. Carol Shea-Porter and Ann Kuster are using false personal attacks, and in the Senate race, Paul Hodes is trying to smear Kelly Ayotte with untrue distortions.

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Both the State of New Hampshire and our country have serious problems. Our Republican candidates are trying to focus on policy changes and issues. Kelly Ayotte is running for the Senate committed to continuing the strong conservative approach of Sen. Judd Gregg. Our congressional candidates have targeted cutting the unconscionable growth of federal spending and Obamacare as their first priorities. And most important, Charlie Bass and Frank Guinta will vote to replace Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House. And here in New Hampshire, John Stephen is committed to making the tough decisions needed to fix the $800 million hole in the state budget.

This election is too important to let the Democrats steal it with dishonest political smears.

Quack.

During that state's 2002 election for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Robert C. Smith, the NHGOP hired GOP Marketplace, based in Northern Virginia, to jam another phone bank being used by the state Democratic Party and the firefighters' union for efforts to turn out voters on behalf of then-governor Jeanne Shaheen on Election Day. John E. Sununu, the Republican candidate, won a narrow victory. In addition to criminal prosecutions, disclosures in the case have come from a civil suit filed by the state's Democratic Party against the state's Republican Party (now settled).

Four men have been convicted of, or pled guilty to, federal crimes and sentenced to prison for their involvement as of 2008. One conviction has been reversed by an appeals court, a decision prosecutors are appealing. James Tobin, freed on appeal, was later indicted on charges of lying to the FBI during the original investigation.

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Speaking of Guinta and Bass: NH-01, NH-02: Republican disclosure woes and falsehoods

Whether it's an odd coincidence or a sign of business as usual in the New Hampshire Republican party, both of the party's House nominees -- Frank Guinta in the first district and Charlie Bass in the second -- have had teeny tiny issues with their financial disclosure documents and truth-telling surrounding the financial transactions involved.

Guinta, of course, lent his campaign $355,000 dollars from a personal bank account he had never disclosed, an amount of money which he had no apparent means of having earned. He has refused to show evidence that it was in fact a long-standing bank account and not a way of laundering a massive sum of money to get around FEC regulations.

Bass, meanwhile, first filed financial disclosure forms showing that he had bought stock in his nephew-by-marriage's pellet stove company while still in Congress. Which was particularly noteworthy since he had also authored legislation providing rebates on, yes, pellet stoves, and had set up a meeting between his nephew and the Energy Secretary.

While Guinta's response has been simple stonewalling, claiming again and again that it was his money and no one gave it to him and no, he will not show the bank statements, Bass has had more to refute.

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[Arkana]

1. It's cause the tides are starting to turn--Democrats aren't supposed to win,

ergo they must have cheated. Sununu's a hack who's still pissed at Jeanne Shaheen for kicking his ass.