Betsy Devine: Funny ha-ha and/or funny peculiar

If you’re coming in late to the NH phone-jamming scandal, no jars of
jelly or marmalade were involved.

Multiple hang-up phone calls were the tool used to stop NH
Democrats (and Manchester
firefighters) from running their usual ride-to-the-polls services on election day in 2002: 
summary
here.

Political columnist John
DiStaso played a major role in getting the Justice Department to investigate. After a very slow start, the Feds handed down two indictments in July 2004. 
The feds questioned but didn’t indict (or publicly identify) a
highly-placed member of the Bush-Cheney campaign who helped Defendant
#1 find Defendant #2 for the purpose of interfering with the election.

I’m amazed that nobody in the national press is pursuing this name of
this person, but right now John DiStaso is the only reporter covering
it.

NH Democrats, unsatisfied by the Justice Department’s work so far,
filed a civil suit to try to get more information. Republicans
succeeded in getting the civil suit postponed until criminal sentencing
was completed.

Now it seems their cover-up will be continued until after the presidential election–they just got the sentencing postponed as well.

If only more press and more bloggers covered this story, maybe the bad guys here would be the ones in a jam.