Regarding the phone jamming scam that may reach into the WH

[rustydog]

From bloomberg:
Republican leaders are facing questions stemming from a criminal case involving efforts to suppress voter turnout in a U.S. Senate election in the state in 2002. Republican John Sununu won that race over Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, helping Republicans retake control of the Senate.

The facts, on the surface at least, are suspicious: dozens of phone calls to the White House by a man later convicted in the case; the national Republican Party agreeing to pay more than $2.5 million in legal bills; phones jammed on Election Day, not only of Democrats but of a firefighters' group, in the first U.S. congressional elections since the Sept. 11 attacks. Democrats say that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff may even be involved.

``The calls to the White House and the relationship with White House staff are a real eye-opener and should be a cause for concern on all fronts,'' said Sheila Krumholz, acting executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington- based research group. ``It calls into question who the person was on the end of that telephone line.'' ......



BUSHITLER claims he has the right to wiretap Americans because: "If Osama is talking to people in America, I wanna know about it. He He HE"

Well mister Bush, Telephone calls from convicted telephone jammers rang directly into the White house up to the day before the election and the day after. Republican talking-point protestations are insufficient. We DEMAND to know what Mehlman was doing and was Abramoff a party to this?
What did you know and WHEN did you know it?






http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aQGLEwqlIdHo&refer=us

[ktlyon]

1. Can there be anything more un-american?

The republicans have been trying to suppress the vote since at least the Civil War. This idea of cheating citizens out of their right to vote is an outrage and this should used as a hammer in the next elections to beat them to submission. All Americans should be encouraged to vote no matter what political persuasion and the majority should rule.