Why the James Tobin Connection is so Important

Julie, Jim and John (0.00 / 0)

Hmmm, Julie Teer was Sununu's spokesman in 2002; she worked with Tobin in 2004.  Tobin was the NRSC regional director in 2002.  But if I recall correctly, Sununu has said he never met Tobin.  That seems odd to me.  

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by: Kathy Sullivan @ Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 21:01:01 PM CDT

Someone like Tobin (4.00 / 1)

Some of our more casual visitors (and some of our less casual visitors) might not fully know who Tobin is. From the wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

James Tobin was President George W. Bush's New England campaign chairman. He was convicted on December 15, 2005, of telephone harassment "for his part in a plot to jam the Democratic Party's phones on Election Day 2002." However, this conviction was later overturned by a federal appeals court.

As New England campaign chairman for Bush-Cheney '04 Inc., Tobin stepped down two weeks before the election when state Democrats accused him of involvement in a phone-jamming scheme on Election Day 2002. Tobin was later indicted for conspiracy.

Tobin served as national political director for publisher Steve Forbes' Presidential campaign. He is an employee of the Washington, D.C.-based DCI Group and also has his own consulting firm, Tobin & Co., based in Bangor, Maine. During the 2004 election cycle he was a Bush Ranger, raising at least $200,000 for the Bush 2004 reelection effort.

RLC = Republican Leadership Council (the so-called moderates). Raymond was a paid staffer there, according to wiki.
http://www.republican-leadersh...

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by: JimC @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 02:06:43 AM CDT

Thank you. (4.00 / 1)

So close to the election, I am guilty of serial political abbreviation.

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by: Dean Barker @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 04:40:40 AM CDT

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Thank you (0.00 / 0)

You did the hard part.

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by: JimC @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 04:49:56 AM CDT

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So what does John Sununu think of election crimes committed in his name? (4.00 / 2)

Who knows? As far as I can tell, six years later, not a single question has ever been posed by any reporter to Sununu about what he knew and when did he know it.

Heres a very simple question:

When the smiling photo of you and Mr. McGee was taken in March of 2003, McGee had long since been outed for his role in the phone jamming and fired from his job at the NH Republican State Committee.
Why did you continue to consort with him?

Several hundred other questions easily come to mind.
Sample: Have you ever asked your father about his business associate Darrell Henry, who McGee testified offered to assist in the jamming?

Perhaps we should have a lottery on what decade will see the first journalist generated question asked of Sununu about this.


"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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by: Paul Twomey @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 05:55:35 AM CDT

Another Chance Lost (4.00 / 1)

Sununu, now in a close re-election campaign against Shaheen, has denied knowledge of the scheme. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pb...

Not only did he not immediately respond, something tells me he may not respond slowly, either.


"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 07:14:27 AM CDT

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Another question for Sununu: (0.00 / 0)

What did that shirt McGee was holding say?

I am John Galt?

I am no John F. Kennedy?

I am not a crook?

I am going to be locked in a hellish prison for seven terrifying months for getting this guy into the Senate, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt?

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by: Tim C. @ Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 01:01:32 AM CDT

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My question ...... (4.00 / 1)

..... and I don't know if someone has addressed this elsewhere on the site: how was this indictment handed down only a few weeks before the election?

 If this were against a Democrat, you'd say "Business as Usual". But against a Republican?

 "We should pay attention to that man behind the curtain."

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by: Ed Tracey @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 11:40:20 AM CDT

good question (4.00 / 3)

And one that Paul Twomey and I have been puzzling over.  One theory is that since a House Judiciary committee is looking into the tardy and sometimes hindering response of the DoJ in this matter, the DoJ decided it would not look good to let the statute of limitations run on these counts, and it was about to run.

Another is that DoJ doesn't feel good about their chances on the underlying criminal complaint, which has been bouncing around the appellate court

Another is that Tobin may finally cooperate if there are new charges brought - especially as we are winding down from the Bush years.

Or, perhaps the career prosecutors have finaly been able to proceed without interference from upstairs.

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 12:02:39 PM CDT

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