Don't you hate it when someone keeps calling and hanging up, without bothering to say hi?
That's what happened in New Hampshire in 2002. The target -- as most of you know -- was Democratic headquarters, where folks were trying to arrange a get-out-the-vote effort on election day. Republican John Sununu was fighting a tough race for the Senate against Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. For the Democrats, voter turnout was everything.
Chuck McGee, the head of the Republican party in New Hampshire, was a military man, and a big believer in the doctrine of disrupting enemy communications. He and Republican strategist James Tobin decided to hire a phone jammer.
Shaun Hansen, the guy who owned the company that did the dirty work, is now arguing that the White House approved of the phone jamming scheme. His lawyers say that the Bushfolk assured his superiors that the tactic was legal. Any such assurance indicates White House foreknowledge of the scheme.
The Republican National Committee poured nearly three million dollars into Tobin’s legal expenses -- more than it spent on the entire state election. Oddly enough, Tobin made 115 calls to a number in the White House in the month leading up to the election. Those calls went to an office run by Ken Mehlman, now the head of the RNC.
The Bush White House says that the phone-jamming scheme never came up during these conversations. If that’s true, then it really would not be fair to suggest that the RNC paid millions of dollars just to keep Ken Mehlman’s name out of the scandal.
But if Hansen's story is true...well. I wonder how Ken Mehlman is feeling right now?
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Don't miss this one via Bradblog.com
COURT TV's Catherine Crier on Electoral Crisis: 'A Full Frontal Attack on Democracy'!
Is this not an attack on Democracy? If 357,000 Americans were killed by al Qaeda, we would call that an attack on democracy and freedom. The press would headline such an event and it would shape our policies for decades to come. In a democracy, when 357,000 votes are effectively killed at the voting booth, what do you call it?
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The national character of this scandal is unprecedented and threatens to turn us into little more than a banana republic, where candidates appear on the ballot in name only because the election has already been determined.
If we are willing to send our troops around the world to secure freedom at the ballot box for others, shouldn't we fight for that right here at home?
Partisanship has no place in this battle. For the sake of democracy…for the sake of America…it is time all citizens demand the sanctity of our election process.
With the November elections almost upon us, we haven't a moment to lose.
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