...Just picking up some Democrat voters on the way to the polls...
Posted on 07/01/2004 8:16:55 AM PDT by 11th Earl of Mar
Today: July 01, 2004 at 7:37:08 PDT
Ex-GOP Consultant Pleads to Phone-Jamming
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The former head a Republican consulting group pleaded guilty to jamming Democratic telephone lines in several New Hampshire cities during the 2002 general election.
Allen Raymond, former president of the Alexandria, Va.-based GOP Marketplace LLC, waived indictment and pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Concord on Wednesday. Judge Joseph A. DiClerico Jr. released Raymond on his own recognizance pending sentencing in November.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department, which prosecuted the case, said an investigation into the telephone jamming continues.
According to court papers, Raymond plotted with unidentified co-conspirators to jam Democratic Party telephone lines established so voters could call for rides to the polls in Manchester, Nashua, Rochester and Claremont. Manchester firefighters' union phone lines also were affected.
The jamming involved more than 800 calls and lasted for about 1 1/2 hours on Nov. 5, 2002, the day New Hampshire voters decided many state and federal races, including the U.S. Senate race between outgoing Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and then-Rep. John Sununu. Sununu, a Republican, won the race.
The complaint said Raymond paid a "vendor co-conspirator" $2,500 to make the actual calls.
Democrats had pushed for an investigation for two years.
"There is, short of murder, not much that is more horrific in America than purposely trying to stop people from voting," said Raymond Buckley, vice chairman of the state Democratic Party. He said the jamming was obviously an organized effort.
He called for the investigation to continue "until every single person who had knowledge of this and paid for this is prosecuted."
In early 2003, state Republicans acknowledged they had hired GOP Marketplace in the 2002 election. But Republican Party Chairman Jayne Millerick has maintained the company, which was paid $15,600 for telemarketing services, was supposed to encourage people to vote Republican, not to jam lines.
Chuck McGee, who was executive director of the state Republican Party at the time, resigned his post after news broke of the matter.
In a statement released Wednesday, Millerick said the state committe cooperated fully with the Justice Department's investigation. "These allegations have been extremely troubling and we are happy that it appears they are coming to a just conclusion," Millerick said.
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OK... most of them. But not all of them.
Oh brother. This guy was no help at all.
WTF is with politics these days, are we really getting that desparate? This kind of thing is just WRONG, I dont care HOW good your "cause" is, we just can't have this sort of thing going on. Leave that to the other guys.
Dems get away with murder, but if a Pubbie so much as makes a mean face then he's put in prison.
Dead and disenfrachised voters may also call for rides.
Chuck works for Dick Armey at CSE.
The difference is that you don't see the GOP falling all over themselves to defend and/or excuse them.
LOL! But they don't even have to go in anymore once they are dead, because of course the DNC knows how they will vote and will take care of all the little details!
1. I guess being a Democrat he doesn't see rape as particularly horrific.
2. Democrats don't even stop people from voting when they are dead so I guess he knows what he is talking about...
You don't jam the lines. You rent ALL the buses instead in advance.
LOL! Never forget LBJ's line, "Who am I to deny a dead man his right to vote?"
Actually, they hire surrogates for the dead. The dead can only vote once, but the surrogates can vote and vote and vote.
I don't care what party he did it for - trying to keep Americans from voting is plain repugnant. I hope they all get busted and punished severely.
And hire rent-a-mobs and lawyers just so all the bases are covered.
And screen the county morgue's mail looking for absentee ballots.
lol...
Beat me by a minute.
Yep, get back to me on this article when Hillary is in prison for FEC election crimes.
Actually, why not ask for (and get) a free ride to the polls? And, then, of course, vote (not Dem), and even ask for and get the ride back? I'd see nothing wrong with it, just a little exploitative.
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