I was just looking for news on Ken Mehlman and NH phone jamming.

[madfloridian]

There isn't any since the last time I wrote.

I was also looking for news of Mehlman getting someone fired on behalf of Abramoff. There isn't anything newer on that either.

I guess the media is just not curious about Mehlman's activities at all.

Here is more from earlier:

From a couple of weeks ago.
Whatever happened about Ken Mehlman and the NH phone jamming?

Also from about that time.
Looks like Ken Mehlman had someone fired in behalf of Abramoff.

Wonder if the media will ever get curious enough to cover it?

[madfloridian]

1. Well, I did find a Novak article..

from Oct. 22 or 23. I am not going to link to it or give it credibility. The gist of it was that it was all Stayman's fault he got fired because he was a partisan Democrat, plus it was the fault of the highly partisan Henry Wanman and also Harry Reid.

Kenny boy Mehlman was totally innocent because he did not remember it all.

I never cease to be amazed. Still checking, nothing else.

[madfloridian]

2. Well, nothing on the phone jamming...but Salon calls him out

on his Sewer Politics.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/10/27/rnc_ad/

"Oct. 27, 2006 | As chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman bristles at accusations that his party uses racial polarization to win elections. Those were the bad old days, he insists, and those awful tactics have no place in today's shiny new, inclusive GOP or in a Bush administration that has boasted two African-American secretaries of state and the first Latino attorney general. He even went so far as to apologize, at last year's NAACP convention, for the polarizing tactics employed by his predecessors.

But whatever uplifting message he may utter when he addresses black audiences at other times, Mehlman at election time is precisely the same as the bad old party bosses who exploited race to win. He is exactly like them, too, in his desire to profit from those tactics while evading responsibility for them. "

[madfloridian]

3. Well, Salon had an article called "Abramoff's Rock Star" in Oct.

But nothing seems to go anywhere at all.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/10/16/mehlman_abramoff/print.html

"Oct. 16, 2006 | Ken Mehlman, head of the Republican Party, insists he doesn't have a Jack Abramoff problem. "Everything I did was above board and consistent with the rules," Mehlman told reporters this month about his work in the White House during President Bush's first term, when the now-disgraced super-lobbyist was hustling Washington. In fact, the Republican National Committee chairman likes to insinuate that Jack Abramoff never made much of an impression on him at all. He might have met with Abramoff or his lieutenants, Mehlman conceded to Fox News recently, but "I don't recall the specifics or the meetings."

But maybe Ken Mehlman does have an Abramoff problem. On Sept. 29, the very day the Foleygate scandal broke and sucked up most of the media oxygen, the House Committee on Government Reform released a bipartisan report on the contacts between the White House and Abramoff. The 91-page report lists 17 different Abramoff lobbying efforts directed at the White House Office of Political Affairs when Mehlman was that office's director from 2001 to 2003. But the most revealing story about Mehlman is told by the hundreds of pages of e-mails in the appendices of the report.

The e-mails show that Mehlman was not only familiar with Abramoff, but might have been his go-to man within the White House. "Everyone would appreciate it if you would contact Ken only and not others here at the WH," reads one message to Abramoff from Bush advisor Karl Rove's assistant Susan Ralston, "because they just forward it to him anyway." And a comparison of the timing of specific e-mails with the timing of specific checks written by Abramoff clients suggests what Abramoff was expected to deliver in return."


And something interesting on another topic:
Sacramento March 15 2003.

[madfloridian]

4. Well, indirectly, this was on Countdown tonight.

This is from a trancription when Howard Dean was on Sam Seder's show way back in April.

Yeh, I know it was not concentrated on Mehlman. But Allen Raymond did not sound like he was going to take all the blame all alone.

SAM SEDER: Now I got to ask you ...a couple of stories of the Republicans..I never cease to be amazed. This latest story, the New Hampshire phone jamming case, tell us a little about that. It has been going on for a couple of years, but they just started sending people to jail for this.

DEAN: And there may be a lot more that go. I think my counterpart, Ken Mehlman will end up in court over this...testifying at least. What happened was that the Republicans jammed the GOTV efforts on the phone. Tied it up, they broke the law. Couple of people have gone to jail. The RNC has paid all their legal bills which makes one think this was not just someone just acting on their own. And as often happens in these scandals, the net is getting wider and wider and wider.

Turns out there were many many many phone calls made to the White House political office on the day this stuff was going on and right before it. And the question is who did they talk to in the White House? And nobody will say of course...so it does remind a little bit of Watergate.

Whew...this is sure taking a long time to play out.

[Dr Fate]

5. DEMS with media access could bring it up though-why count on the GOP owned media?

Seriously- why are we always asking why the Republican owned media does not say this or that- when we should be asking why Democrats with media access dont say it.

Is someone stopping Democrats with media access from bringing up these issues or any other issues on those TV interview shows?

Will the Republican owned media be curious enough to cover it? The real question for me is will DEMS with media access force it into the echo chamber by bringing it up themselves on camera? Will they even try?

[madfloridian]

6. You are right...that's why I have been doing this...

Mehlman is being investigated for at least two events. Oct. 20, 2006
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/490

Whatever happened about Ken Mehlman and phone jamming?
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/413

Looks like Ken Mehlman had someone fired in behalf of Abramoff.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2396969

I have been trying to call attention to it.

McCain adviser produced the Ford ad...supervised Tobin during NH phone jamming.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/496

Actually I wrote more on it when the judge ruled the Democrats could have subpoena power. I think that was late last year.

It just is not catching on. Tonight was the first I have seen on TV about the phone jamming.

[Dr Fate]

8. Kick n/t

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[wordpix]

7. Lisa Meyers, NBC, did an investigative report last night. See my thread on this

$3 million from RNC to defend Tobin is the latest. RNC refused to be interviewed. Repuke whistleblower was interviewed. Very Good!