GOP Paying Legal Bills of Bush Official

The GOP...election tampering!!!! Why aren't we hearing about this in the news?

By JOHN SOLOMON
The Associated Press
Thursday, August 11, 2005; 3:08 AM

WASHINGTON -- Despite a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with voters, the Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.

James Tobin, the president's 2004 campaign chairman for New England, is charged in New Hampshire federal court with four felonies accusing him of conspiring with a state GOP official and a GOP consultant in Virginia to jam Democratic and labor union get-out-the-vote phone banks in November 2002.



James Tobin of Bangor, Maine, is seen is a Dec. 13, 2004 photo as he arrives at U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H.. Tobin, former Bush-Cheney '04 New England regional campaign director, has pleaded innocent and is scheduled to stand trial in September on federal charges related to a conspiracy of illegal phone jamming in a get-out-the-vote operation for Election 2002. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File) (Jim Cole - AP)
A telephone firm was paid to make repeated hang-up phone calls to overwhelm the phone