DynamicDems Journal - NH Phone Jamming....interesting insights...church & anti-Kerry literature

NH and Ohio have a common problem: foxes running the hen house. The levels of corruption in both state governments are insidious and they are very difficult to prove legally, especially when the enforcement of law is controlled by partisan politics. The phone jamming case in NH gives insight to how these people operate and it is disgusting. The tendrils of corruption reach far and they are almost impossible to extricate.

When the wife of the head US Attorney for the District of NH is handing out anti-Kerry/pro-Bush literature at her church (very legally questionable in itself) and is also on the GOP payroll as a "consultant," it is no wonder that the phone jamming case against republican "operatives" has been thwarted and stalled at every turn.

Voter fraud is only the tip of the iceberg. The bottom line is not that the GOP uses unethical and illegal methods to influence elections, but that they have a network in place to squash legal recourse in the aftermath. This is why it was impossible to successfully contest the 2004 election results in Ohio.

Our government is infected by parasites and the purging of these blood-sucking vermin is going to be a long and arduous process. Justice will trump corruption in the end, but this network has been in place for a long time and it is going to take a long time to extricate. Let's hope that people are becomming sick enough of the corruption that they will demand transparency. For every Tobin or Delay or Cunningham that is caught, how many are there out there who have not only gotten away with it but who are still getting away with it? I shudder to think.

Who's in charge of prosecuting the phone-jamming?

The head US Attorney for the District of NH is Thomas P. Colantuono, appointed to his post by George W. Bush in 2001. *

In the 2004 Presidential campaign, Colantuono's wife made election-law news (Concord Monitor, October, 2004):

It's illegal for clergy to campaign for a candidate on church property, but that didn't stop a staffer for the Republican National Committee from soliciting help re-electing President Bush last week.
In an e-mail to "pastors, church leaders and ministries,"Pam Colantuono, wife of Tom Colantuono (a Bush-appointed U.S. attorney for New Hampshire), asked clergy for help getting a pro-Bush flier to parishioners. Colantuono was clear about how priests could do this without breaking the law.

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The RNC paid Pam Colantuono a $4,000 for "Political consulting" in 2004. She also addressed the NH Right to Life group on behalf of Bush-Cheney '04, but it's not clear whether or not she worked with RNC executive James Tobin, who was New England chairman of Bush-Cheney '04 during that time.
Anyway, if you have been wondering...

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why the US Attorney's Office has moved so slowly in its investigation of the 2002 phone-jamming scandal...
why the US Attorney never indicted or even revealed the name of phone-jammer James Tobin until NH Democrats forced the issue...
why the US Attorney has actively interfered with the civil suit filed by NH Democrats ...
why RNC defense attorney* * Robert Kelner seems to have an inside line on what the US Attorneys are doing...
...one possible explanation could be that the chief US Attorney in NH may have personal and/or political ties to many of the people his team is supposed to be investigating.

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* * One of the few individual donors to Tom Colantuono's unsuccessful bid for a seat in the US Congress was Ovide P Lamontagne, an attorney with Devine, Millimet, and Branch who is defending the NH Republican Party against the phone-jamming civil suit filed by the NH Democrats.

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