.. James Tobin ...., the former New England regional political director for the Republican National Committee, was found guilty Dec. 15 of conspiracy to commit .. interstate telephone harassment, and aiding and abetting the commission of interstate telephone harassment ..
Tobin conspired with Chuck McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, and Allen Raymond, president of GOP Marketplace, to jam the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2002 ..
... Phone records show multiple calls between New Hampshire Republicans and the White House in the days surrounding the phone-jamming incidents, but the details of those calls remain a mystery.
Now we find out that Karl Rove, former deputy White House chief of staff, who remains embroiled in his own controversy regarding the outing of a CIA agent, will be coming to New Hampshire shortly to fund-raise for the state Republican Party, whose coffers have been decimated by the costs of legal efforts to have Tobin, McGee and Raymond exonerated ..
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