Democrats add defendants to phone-jamming lawsuit

[Judi Lynn]

Democrats add defendants to phone-jamming lawsuit
By Holly Ramer, Associated Press Writer | September 14, 2005

MANCHESTER, N.H. --The New Hampshire Democratic Party added more defendants Wednesday to a lawsuit over the jamming of its phone lines on Election Day 2002.

Repeated hang-up calls overwhelmed the party's get-out-the-vote phone banks and a ride-to-the-polls line for more than an hour that day. Former state GOP director Chuck McGee and Republican consultant Allen Raymond pleaded guilty to taking part in the scheme and James Tobin, a former regional director for the Republican National Committee from Bangor, Maine, is scheduled for trial in December.

As those criminal cases proceeded in federal court, Democrats sued the state Republican Party, McGee and Raymond in Hillsborough County Superior Court seeking more information about the plan and reimbursement for its costs of setting up the phone banks.

On Wednesday, they expanded the civil lawsuit to include Tobin, former state GOP chairman John Dowd, the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2005/09/14/democrats_add_defendants_to_phone_jamming_lawsuit/

[truthisfreedom]

1. woo-hoo! even more good news. it's a good news day.

[Justice]

2. The NH Democrats Are One Smart Group

[Demeter]

3. You Learn To Fight Dirty In New Hampshire

I did.

[MaineDem]

4. Go get 'em, Kathy!!!

I love our neighbors to the west. :)