Why is the Republican National Committee still paying ninja DC lawyers to defend James Tobin, now that he’s been convicted for his role in the NH phone-jamming scandal? Is Tobin repaying them by keeping quiet? Was there some dark secret that needs to be kept quiet, something Tobin knew about when he headed the Bush Cheney 2004 campaign for all of New England?
Mark Karlin raised these question. It didn’t take much digging to find one obvious candidate for a smoking gun that Tobin might know about.
- Item: The Nader campaign got illicit help in Oregon, both from Bush-Cheney 2004 and from “Citizens for a Sound Economy.” Were similar tricks played in New England?
- Item: The NH Executive Director for Citizens for a Sound Economy was Chuck McGee — James Tobin’s co-conspirator in the phone-jamming.
- Item: NH Republican bigshot Dave Carney gave illicit help to Nader’s campaign–and the FEC’s general counsel urged them to prosecute him. Instead, the FEC simply dropped all charges.
- Item: Dave Carney and Grover Norquist were also closely involved with Sununu’s 2002 Senate campaign, the campaign where Tobin was helping promote the election phone-jamming.
- Item: Carney and Norquist also worked together in the 2004 election.
Hello, real reporters, I know you’re out there somewhere!
* Interesting: This CSE phone script.