Hey Sununu!!! -remember the phone jamming in 2002?

[underpants]

Raymond told investigators that his former Republican National Committee colleague James Tobin approached him with a plan to tie up the phones of New Hampshire Democrats on Election Day 2002, during a close Senate race between Republican John E. Sununu and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. Raymond collected $15,600 from the New Hampshire Republican State Committee and paid a small Idaho telemarketing company $2,300 to make non-stop hangup phone calls to six New Hampshire phone lines. Five of these were being used by Democrats to get out the vote; the sixth belonged to the Manchester Firefighters' Union, which offers non-partisan but mostly liberal rides to the polls.

At the time of the 2002 phone-jamming, Raymond owned a Virginia-based GOP phone-bank company (GOP Marketplace) and also held a paid position as executive director of the Republican Leadership Council.

In an interview with the Boston Globe, Raymond said he took part in the phone-jamming because he "had been reluctant to turn down a prominent official of the RNC, fearing that would cost him future opportunities from an organization that was becoming increasingly ruthless."[1]


How To Rig an Election

The closing paragraph of his book How To Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative ends with a line that reflects on a conversation with his wife just before he entered jail;


"After ten full years inside the GOP, ninety days amongst honest criminals wasn't any great ordeal."[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Raymond

[elleng]

1. P.O.S.

(sunnunu, not you, pants.)

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2. Thanks for the reminder...

[underpants]

3. It's a good book

Raymond was pretty naive but there are some interesting stories about Rove, Haley Barbour, and a really funny one about Mitch McConnell.

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5. I'm always looking for a good read... Thanks again.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Sununu is the picture of corruption, fired by HW Bush for personal use of government jets and

limos in a seriously extreme manner, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of partying on the taxpayer's wallet.

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6. Do you happen to remember the huge bar tab amount and location??