Dean on Reports - Mehlman & Barbour Embroiled In NH Phone Jamming Scheme

[kpete]

Dean on Reports that Second RNC Chair, Mississippi Governor Embroiled in New Hampshire Phone Jamming Scheme

4/28/2006 3:04:00 PM


Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement calling on Governor Barbour to denounce the phone jamming scheme and demanding that Mehlman stop stonewalling on this case:

"Today we learned that both the current RNC chairman and a former RNC chairman are linked to a criminal campaign to keep people from voting in New Hampshire. Governor Barbour should immediately denounce GOP Marketplace's conduct in this phone jamming scheme and make clear the degree to which he or his investment company benefited from it. Again, I encourage Chairman Mehlman to end the Republican stonewall and answer the many questions that remain regarding the involvement of the White House staff and the RNC in this shameful and illegal activity. It's a simple question, what did they know and when did they know it?"

While the AP revealed Barbour's financial interest in the company hired to block phone lines at Democratic get-out-the-vote phone banks, Knight Ridder today highlighted the disturbing parallels between this scandal and Watergate. The following are excerpts from both stories:

more at:
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=64817

[louis-t]

1. Oooh, they weren't specifically hired to block phone lines

but I would love it if that phrase stuck.

[dave29]

2. what about all the phones they didn't jam?

Why must we focus so much on the crimes these people commited, and not all the times they spent not commiting crimes? Howard Dean is an insane lunatic with no grasp on reality. I'm series.

[glitch]

3. Lol! Thanks for that. nt

[LiberalPartisan]

4. Every day...

It's either something new or confirmation of something already suspected.

This may well be the most corrupt iteration of the republican party ever.

It never stops with these guys.