Reply #25: (NH:) GOP phone jammer sentenced (to 7 months Prison)

[NewHampshireDem]

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=51820

CONCORD — Even a leniency plea from a former foe could not keep the state Republican Party's former executive director out of jail for masterminding a scheme to jam opponents' get-out-the-vote phone banks on Election Day 2002.

U.S. District Court Judge Joseph DiClerico yesterday sentenced Charles "Chuck" McGee, 35, of Concord to seven months in a federal minimum security prison in Fort Devens, Mass., despite a request by state Democratic Chairman Kathleen Sullivan that McGee receive no jail time. The judge also fined McGee $2,000 and ordered him to perform 200 hours of community service.

"I made a mistake and will pay for my mistake," McGee, surrounded by family and friends, told The Union Leader after the hour-long hearing. "And I'm going to come back and elect good Republicans."

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He was "not the ultimate decision-maker," (NH Dem Chair Cathy Sullivan) wrote, charging that former state GOP chairman John Dowd and former National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Sen. Bill Frist were responsible for creating an environment "in which this type of behavior was tolerated and encouraged."
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