CONCORD, N.H. - The state attorney general's office on Friday barred the Republican Governors Association from conducting any political activity in New Hampshire until the group registers as a political committee.
The order requires a temporary halt to all the association's political activities, including a series of television ads that began Friday, telephone calls and mailings.
The state's Democratic Party filed a complaint against the group in late September. It accused the organization of hiring the Alexandria, Va.-based Tarrance Group to conduct polls critical of John Lynch, Gov. Craig Benson's Democratic challenger.
A second Democratic Party complaint about the ads sparked the Attorney General's order.
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Good enough. Earlier it was found:
A Republican political consultant with deep New Jersey roots is at the center of a dirty tricks scandal that has already cost a New Hampshire party leader his job.
The Virginia-based GOP Marketplace -- which links "campaigns and committees with telephone vendors online", according to its mission statement -- has been implicated in a plot to jam the phone lines of Democratic "get-out-the-vote" call centers in New Hampshire last November.
Allen Raymond, a 33-year-old former New Jersey Republican State Committee staffer, heads the group.
According to recent news reports, GOP Marketplace was paid $15,600 by the New Hampshire GOP on November 1, and in turn hired an Idaho telemarketing firm to clog the lines of Democratic phone banks with "hang-ups."http://www.politicsnj.com/kornacki021003_Raymond.htm
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