What Role Did Missouri Republicans Play In The New Hampshire Phone Jamming

[patrioticliberal]

What Role Did Missouri Republicans Play In The New Hampshire Phone Jamming Case?

Submitted by Roy Temple on Tue, 12/27/2005 - 3:25pm. Jim Talent

Avid politicos may have noted the conviction in New Hampshire last month of a top-level GOP political operative on charges of telephone harassment in a scheme senior GOP officials used to interfere with GOTV efforts in the 2002 Senate race in New Hampshire.

The RNC spent nearly 3/4 of a million dollars on legal fees to defend James Tobin, so you can bet they knew there was plenty to hide. He has now been convicted on two counts.

During the trial, certain documents came to light that raise questions regarding ties between Missouri Republicans, particularly Senator Jim Talent, and the New Hampshire Republican Party's phone jamming scheme.

The company hired to orchestrate the phone jamming was GOPmarketplace.com. That firm was run by Allen Raymond, who received a jail sentence in this case. Certain financial records from GOPmarketplace were introduced as evidence during trial. An Income by Customer Summary, shows receipts of $12, 904.28 from "Millennium." That is roughly the same amount GOPmarketplace received from the NH GOP to pay for the phone jamming there. Perhaps there was a Missouri version planned.

MORE: http://www.firedupmissouri.com/gop_phone_jamming_talent

[TomInTib]

1. I have always doubted New Hampshire was the only state they did this.

[Wilms]

2. Thanks. And there was development in NH.

(Convicted) Former GOP official seeks new trial

December 28, 2005

CONCORD, N.H. --A former national Republican Party official convicted in a phone-jamming plot against Democrats in New Hampshire is seeking a new trial.

James Tobin of Bangor, Maine, filed a motion on Dec. 21 seeking a new trial and to overturn the jury's guilty verdict. The documents filed in federal court in Concord do not include Tobin's arguments for a new trial. They are expected to be filed within a month.

Tobin faces up to seven years in prison for telephone harassment.

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State Democrats are pursuing a civil lawsuit, which they hope will expose knowledge or approval of the scheme by GOP officials higher than Tobin.

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/12/28/former_gop_official_seeks_new_trial

[patrioticliberal]

5. ugh. I HATE THESE PPL!

[NoFederales]

3. Would love to see more info about this; how sweet it would be to lose

Senator Talent. Between Talent, Bond, the Blunts and lesser imps and demons--with or without bifurcated tails--Missouri is blighted with extremist BS.

NoFederales

[MO_Dem]

4. How sweet, indeed!

We need to lose them all, plus my rep, Joanne Emerson. Sweetest of all, as you say, would be to lose Talent.

[patrioticliberal]

6. lovely