Lead figure in phone jam to advise GOP contenders--WaPo

[Demeter]

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/REPOSITORY/605290320

Lead figure in phone jam to advise GOP contenders
Charles McGee back to work after prison


By DAVID A. FAHRENTHOLD AND ZACHARY A. GOLDFARB
The Washington Post


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May 29. 2006 8:00AM


A major figure in the Election Day phone-jamming scandal that embarrassed and nearly bankrupted the New Hampshire GOP is out of prison and back in the political game.

Charles McGee, the former executive director of the state Republican Party, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and served seven months for his part in the scheme to have a telemarketer tie up Democratic and union phone lines in 2002.

He's back at his old job with a Republican political marketing firm, Spectrum Monthly & Printing Inc., and will be helping out at the firm's "GOP campaign school" for candidates.



The news of McGee's role in the campaign school was seized on by Democrats, who have charged that Republicans in New Hampshire and Washington have not done enough to repudiate the jamming scheme's authors. Christy Setzer, a spokeswoman for a Democratic group called the Senate Majority Project, said Spectrum's clients include many of New Hampshire's most prominent Republicans.

"The very fact that they continue to associate with him and give him their money . . . speaks volumes," she said.

[bananas]

1. Are they still investigating how high it went?

Or is the case closed?
There were rumors that it went all the way to the white house.

[Supersedeas]

2. You can't clean this type of corruption--they only recycle it.

[Roland99]

7. We some version of the "Dip" from Roger Rabbit.

[UpInArms]

3. Seeing all the Iran-Contra Scandal re-treads installed in government

official positions - this is not so surprising.

The GOP is the Party of Corruption.

[redqueen]

4. GOPranos

all of 'em

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Sicilians have

much higher standards and a code of honor.

There is no code of honor in BushCo.

[Demeter]

9. Cute!

Unfortunately, also true!

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Corruption

is a GOP job requirement.

Freepers only need apply.

[ArbustoBuster]

8. Dammit, can't we use this to slap down the Republicans somehow?

I mean, the bastards rehired a convicted felon who was convicted of deliberately and maliciously destroying Americans' right to vote! This should be blared from every news program until the guy is forced to resign, the company that hired him is forced into bankruptcy, and every politician who retained that company is forced from office! This is a national disgrace, but I bet it falls off the national radar within twelve hours.

Sometimes I really hate my country. Or, more specifically, the motherless bastards running it.

[Demeter]

10. New Hampshire--Live Free or Die

There are a lot of people dying there.

[truthisfreedom]

11. what else could he do for a living? he's part of the culture of corruption

it's not like he has anywhere else to go.

[Rex]

12. OMG! GOP campaign school. I can see the course lineup!

Economics 101 - Big club beats little stick.

Politics 101 - If they got it and you need it, take it and make them feel guilty about not offering it to you in the first place.

Ethics 101 - Stealing or misappropriation?

Morals 101 - A moran's dilemma.

[ShockediSay]

13. is that why they do all that warrantless wiretapping, phone data

gathering and the like?

It only makes sense, else they could get warrants after the fact.

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