Phone jamming: GOP fires back [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Phone jamming: GOP fires back
By JOHN DISTASO
Senior Political Reporter
3 hours, 3 minutes ago

The state Republican Party is charging that a Democratic lawsuit against it for an illegal phone jamming operation in 2002 was actually part of a national Democratic plan to “advance their political agenda” in the 2004 general election.

The state Democratic chairman calls the claim baseless and “pretty sad.”

The conviction last month of a former high-ranking Republican official for conspiring to jam state Democratic Party and firefighters union get-out-the-vote telephone banks on Election Day 2002 has re-focused attention on an 18-month-old civil suit filed by the Democrats seeking damages for the illegal GOP operation.

The case is expected to go to trial later this year, and a series of motions have been recently filed.

The Republican State Committee’s attorney, Ovide Lamontagne, contends in court papers that the state Democratic Party filed its civil suit against the Republicans “in attempt to use the court system to interfere with the (GOP’s) constitutionally protected election activities.”
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