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To: bentway who wrote (283752)	4/10/2006 11:39:42 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574261

"The national Republican Party, which paid millions in legal bills to defend Tobin, says the contacts involved routine election business and that it was "preposterous" to suggest the calls involved phone jamming." Ummm, right. Which is why they are spending the money. They regularly do this. Ok, no they don't. I am sure there is something that differentiates this case. Don't bother me, I am trying to research this. I am sure there is something that absolves Rove here, I just haven't found it... Look, I will get back to you. Trust me.

To: bentway who wrote (283752)	4/11/2006 1:35:01 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 1574261

Wow, this is worse than Nixon - at least Nixon didn't block a voter's right to vote ! "The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 — as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down. ....Repeated hang-up calls that jammed telephone lines at a Democratic get-out-the-vote center occurred in a Senate race in which Republican John Sununu defeated Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, 51 percent to 46 percent, on Nov. 5, 2002. " analysis of phone records introduced at Tobin's criminal trial show he made 115 outgoing calls — mostly to the same number in the White House political affairs office — between Sept. 17 and Nov. 22, 2002. Two dozen of the calls were made from 9:28 a.m. the day before the election through 2:17 a.m. the night after the voting. Prosecutors did not need the White House calls to convict Tobin and negotiate the two guilty pleas. The phone records show that most calls to the White House were from Tobin, who became President Bush's presidential campaign chairman for the New England region in 2004. ---------------------------------------------------------- So many corrupt people.