Convicted GOP Phone Jammer Now Teaching “Campaign School”...

[Pirate Smile]

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.

Richard Pease, the firm's co-president, said McGee would be available to advise candidates at the two-day event, planned for next weekend in Manchester. McGee's role at the school was reported Thursday by the New Hampshire Union Leader.

"Chuck will work with the candidates in any way they want," Pease said. "If they want his advice, if they want his . . . experience, it's there for them to take or leave."

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


This is probably old news to DU but I've been out of town and it is the first I've seen of it.

[Trillo]

1. Isn't it nice to know that a conviction and

jail time doesn't hurt one's employment prospects, one tiny bit? That once one has served one's time, that everything is as it was.

Can we all look forward to such a just society, or is this reserved for 'special' folks of certain persuasions?

[OzarkDem]

2. Putting the "con" in consulting

Having a prison record or being a convicted felon is considered a badge of honor in the GOP. Ask Ollie North.

[Bozita]

3. If a Dem were convicted of the identical crime, ...

[crickets]

4. Why izzit

someone found guilty of disrupting a national election in a way that affected citizens' ability to vote only spends a paltry seven months in jail? Why did sentencing not include barring this man from being 'professionally' involved in elections or campaigning ever again? :grr:

[MaineDem]

5. I posted this on Friday: State GOP distances itself from McGee school

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2648228

Part of it:
The New Hampshire Union Leader’s “Granite Status” column reported yesterday that McGee recently sent an email to “Friends and Fellow Republicans” urging them to attend. A flier attached to the email calls the school “a nuts and bolts boot camp” to give participants “all the tools you need to win.”

The Democratic National Committee yesterday ridiculed the school, but did not directly criticize the Republican State Committee.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=State+GOP+distances+itself+from+McGee+school&articleId=2df7345d-7d14-47c6-a2c3-a8bc65800e2c