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The Irregular Times scolded this blog and others for interfering with Ellen Tobin’s “work in her career as a political consultant.”
What darn career as a political consultant? Ellen Tobin has never had a career as a political consultant. The idea that she has suddenly acquired such a career, and become so good at it that shes already worth $386,000 to struggling Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, is pretty ludicrous. |
The idea that the RNC is using Chafee to funnel continuing hush money to James Tobin seems much more likely.
The Washington Post and the Providence Journal give conflicting accounts of Ellen Tobins role in Northeast Strategies. Neither one suggests that she is working as a political consultant.
I’d be very curious to know if the RNC’s generosity to Lincoln Chafee included a recent donation of, oh, $386,000 or thereabouts with private instructions of just where to spend that amount…