Steal the Vote 2004, part 7
On October 15th, Jim Tobin, the Bush-Cheney New England campaign chairman had to resign because of his involvement with a phone jamming scandal during the elections of 2002:
The resignation came as the Democrats and Republicans fought in court over whether the Democrats could question GOP officials about Tobin’s alleged role in the illegal jamming.
Get-out-the-vote phones run by Democrats and the nonpartisan Manchester firefighters union were jammed on Election Day two years ago by more than 800 computer-generated hang- up calls. The calls tied up the phones for about 1 1/2 hours.
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo revealed that a source of his told him on July 1st that Allen Raymond, one of the key players in the scandal had fingered Tobin for his involvement. Yet for some three and a half months the Bush campaign did not nothing about him.
Meanwhile, the Justice Department is busy trying to prevent disclosure of evidence about the scandal. Don’t want to influence Bush’s election chances, eh?