White House knew of payments for Tobin's defense

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=e9385b57-a710-4d70-b7d3-fcb1c5d46a5c&headline=White+House+knew+of+payments+for+Tobin%27s+defense%22%27%25%3c%3e%3a%24

The former Chairman of the Republican National Committee remembers telling someone at the White House that he had decided to have the RNC pay the legal defense bills for convicted phone-jamming conspirator James Tobin, but he can’t remember who.

Ed Gillespie told the New Hampshire Union Leader yesterday he informed the White House after he decided to authorize payment.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Gillespie told its reporter that he had “informed the White House, without seeking formal approval, before authorizing the payments.”

But state Democratic Chairman Kathy Sullivan called what she viewed as a change in Gillespie’s account troubling. If the White House was informed by Gillespie before he authorized payments, the White House could have had an opportunity to put a stop to it, and did not, she noted.

If there's anyone I want to be arrested, it's Gillespie.

The RNC just admitted to paying for the defense.

The question is why they would pay for the defense of someone who was involved in something that didn't hurt the national Republican party?

John Sinunu benefited from this. If I remember correctly, he was in a very close race. That year they picked up Coleman, who is not better than Wellstone by any measure, and Sinunu giving them 52 or 53 seats and control of both houses of Congress.

...and when did he know it?

It all feels strangely familiar.

I'm so glad Kathy Sullivan is keeping this alive.

that he's fooling....oh yea, the M$M--they'll feign bewilderment.

How do they ever manage to function?

This ought be rubbed in the face of every GOP candidate in New England...

to watch Republican memories get shorter and shorter with each new scandal thats piled on.

Man, these people are the most amorla group you're likely to find outside of Pelican Bay.