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Allen Raymond, paid $15,600 to jam NH phones on Election Day 2002 and now fresh out of prison, gave a frank interview to Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe, saying that he felt he had to participate or risk losing business with the increasingly-aggressive Karl-Rove era RNC. |
Raymond says that when James Tobin asked him to help Chuck McGee jam some phones, he assumed that Tobin had already consulted his lawyers about such a plan. (RNC lawyers, like his RNC supervisors, claim Tobin never consulted them about the phone-jamming.)
Allen Raymond, who is still a defendant in the NH Democrats’ civil suit, is understandably careful about what he says. This quote, however, deserves wider circulation:
“Republicans have treated campaigns and politics as a business, and now are treating public policy as a business, looking for the types of returns that you get in business, passing legislation that has huge ramifications for business,” he said. “It is very much being monetized, and the federal government is being monetized under Republican majorities.”
Wouldn’t you have to call that a “money quote”?