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

[Wilms]

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

12/27/2005

by Roy Temple

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.

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http://www.firedupmissouri.com/gop_phone_jamming_talent





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.

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

[Wilms]

1. .

[galloglas]

2. And the answer is...

A bunch!

Our old friend, Mark S. "Thor" Hearne, who testified before Rep. Bob Ney's phony House investigation on Ohio voting violations, is at the nexus. See the map below.

http://rawstory.com/exclusives/map_conservative_ties_raw_story_415.htm

The second sorriest aspect of this is that Hearne was the legal advisor that certified the election of Matt Blunt (the simple-minded son of Rep. Roy Blunt, current stand-in for Majority Leader Tom DeLay). This despite much data to show that Matt Blunt lost (see analysis of Matthew Fox) the elction.

The saddest is that we somehow managed to elect a Democratic Secretary of State (Robin Carnahan) who studiously ignored individual and grassroots attempts to speak to her about Electronic Voting throughout her tenure!

This is particularly worrisome since "Thor" Hearne was Missouri's GOP member on the HAVA implementation committee that convened when (guess who!!) Matt Blunt was Secretaty of State and, thus, chief election official for Missouri. A prior quid pro quo?

In 2004, Ohio became the Florida of 2000. The only question (one that Fired-Up Missouri disregarded in an email to them earlier this year) is this. Will this unexplained lack of concern result in Missouri becoming Ohio in 2008?

[Wilms]

3. Perhaps the civil suit mentioned in the Boston.com story will reveal more.

And yes, I've wondered if MO might become the next Florida/Ohio.

[kster]

4. kick.nt

[Wilms]

5. Update: Phone jamming: GOP fires back (from LBN)

Phone jamming: GOP fires back

By JOHN DISTASO
Senior Political Reporter

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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http://www.theunionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Phone+jamming%3A+GOP+fires+back&articleId=c2ca1af0-f665-435f-92bc-ea12dafb1d56

LBN Discussion

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2028513