Dems want to depose ex-RNC chief in phone jamming civil suit

[MaineDem]

CONCORD, N.H. — State Democrats are digging for more information about the Election Day 2002 plot that jammed get-out-the-vote telephone lines.

They are asking a judge to force former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie and other national GOP operatives to answer questions under oath, according to court papers.

State Democratic Party officials say they are making deposition requests based on evidence from the criminal trial of former Bush campaign official James Tobin, of Bangor, Maine, who was sentenced last month to 10 months in prison on charges he helped plan the phone jamming. Tobin was convicted in December of two felony telephone harassment charges. He was acquitted of a third, more serious charge, of conspiring against voters rights.

Democrats are suing New Hampshire Republicans to find out how far up the chain of command the phone jamming plot reached, which tied up Democratic and a nonpartisan get-out-the-vote and ride-to-the-polls phone lines for more than an hour on Nov. 5, 2002, before Republicans called it off. The motion includes a request for White House phone and cell phone records.

http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D8I47CR81-158.shtml

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1. BEAUTIFUL!!!!! (nt)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Do they now?

Look who's all grown up! :proud parent:


Can someone -snip- another significant portion of the article? I don't want to accept and delete the Maine Today java-cookie.

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3. snip

"We want to know if someone at the White House was involved and if so, the extent of their involvement," Finis Williams III, lawyer for the Democrats, said Thursday.

The motion dated Wednesday seeks permission to depose Gillespie, who in conjunction with the White House, signed off on the RNC decision to foot Tobin´s legal bills, according to court documents. Democrats also want to question Alicia Davis, former deputy to current RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman when he was political affairs director in the White House. Mehlman has said he and his staff did not talk to New Hampshire Republicans about a phone jamming plot.

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Democrats also asked to depose Darrell Henry, a former lobbyist mentioned during Tobin´s trial, and Chris Cupit, former vice president of GOP Marketplace, the company that hired a telemarketer to carry out the phone jamming.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Many thanks.