Rove to Rescue Phone Jamming GOPers

[kpete]

Rove to Rescue Phone Jamming GOPers
By Paul Kiel - May 17, 2006, 10:54 AM
I love it when scandals converge.

As reported in today's Washington Post, the New Hampshire Republican State Committee has been so financially drained by legal bills piling up from defending its phone jamming that they have only a total of $733.60 in their state and federal accounts. What to do?

Call Karl Rove. On June 12th, Rove will be the "special guest" at the NHRSC's annual dinner. For those in the area, it'll cost you $100 a head to get into the Radisson to hear the possibly-then-indicted-Rove. But if you want to get an especially good look, you'll have to pay $250.

Proceeds will go to a worthy cause: Devine Millimet & Branch, the law firm defending the NHRSC against the Democrats' ongoing lawsuit. The bill is $85,535 and climbing.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000670.php

[derby378]

1. OMG

:rofl:

[Coexist]

2. My heart is trying really, really hard to bleed right now

...but I can't make it.

[reichstag911]

3. Poor wittle Wepubwicans...

:nopity:

[RagAss]

4. Fuckem.....God help me I love it so......

[Orsino]

5. "Special guest"?

It will surprise me if he's able to get a gig parking cars in June.

[MaineDem]

6. DNC Release on this news:

Rove Trying to Get New Hampshire Republicans Out of A Jam

Washington, DC - On the same day that convicted phone-jamming conspirator James
Tobin was sentenced to ten months in prison for his role in a criminal campaign
to keep New Hampshire voters from getting to the polls, the people of New
Hampshire learned that Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove will
headline a fundraiser for the state Republican Party. Rove will raise money for
the Party amid reports that legal bills stemming from the phone-jamming case
have left it almost broke, leaving just $733.60 in its bank accounts.


"James Tobin may be on his way to jail, but critical questions about the
criminal campaign to disenfranchise New Hampshire voters still haven't been
answered," said Democratic National Committee Communications spokesman Damien
LaVera.

"We know there were dozens of calls between the White House and New Hampshire
Republicans on the days surrounding and including Election Day, but we still
don't know critical details about who was on the line or what was discussed. We
know at least three people will see jail time in this case, but still there are
no answers about whether or not anyone at the White House or the RNC helped
devise, implement or conceal this plot. And now we learn that Karl Rove is
coming to town to rescue the New Hampshire Republican Party, which has been
practically bankrupted by legal bills in this case.

"The time has come for the White House and the RNC to stop stonewalling on this
case. Sending Karl Rove to New Hampshire to rescue the state party sends a
disturbing message that Republicans in Washington are more interested in
concealing this scheme than in joining Democrats in protecting the fundamental
right of all Americans to vote."

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