Republican campaigner pleads innocent to phone-jamming (ME/NH)

This article will definitely brighten your day!

From the Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME):

CONCORD, N.H. — The former New England chairman of President Bush's re-election campaign pleaded innocent in federal court Monday to charges he helped jam Democrats' get-out-the-vote phone lines on Election Day 2002. James Tobin, 44, of Bangor, Maine, faces two criminal counts each of conspiring to make harassing telephone calls and aiding and abetting telephone harassment.

If convicted, he faces five years in the slammer. Here's hoping!

Oooh... ya gotta read this part:

Tobin is free on personal recognizance, but U.S. Magistrate Judge James Muirhead threatened to jail Tobin if he gets so much as a speeding ticket before his trial begins Feb. 1.

"He's no different than a street hooker in Manchester," Muirhead said. "If he's guilty, then I find his crime as offensive as any other crime." Disrupting the electoral process is an "outrage against the Constitution," Muirhead said.

LOLOLOL! Yes! Finally a person with some kind of standing in the legal system seems actually inclined to take this kind of thing seriously! Hooray for Judge Muirhead! Altho he does kinda owe Manchester hookers an apology for comparing them to someone who tried to destroy democracy itself.

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/041214phonejam.shtml

NICE!! :)