Judge dismisses most of phone-jamming suit

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Full article: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/06/15/judge_dismisses_most_of_phone_jamming_suit

Also: GOP fails to squash phone-jam civil suit - N.H. Union Leader

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AP tries to spin it as if the case were almost history. The Union Leader captures the essence of the Republican failure.

vote?

the right is always nattering on about.

Notice in the Union Leader article they quote local Democrats but the Republican quote comes from the Republican National Committee.

and Dems also claiming a victory. It's more than possible that the lawsuit included a few tenuous claims as a buffer of sort.

C'mon guys we've got to try and be nice to the thugs.

The criminal cases have all been completed with guilty verdicts and jail time handed out.

Quite rightly!

I give the NH Democratic Party and Kathy Sullivan a lot of credit for not giving up on this!

GOP fails to squash phone-jam civil suit
By JOHN DISTASO
Senior Political Reporter
Thursday, Jun. 15, 2006

Manchester – A judge today refused to end a civil lawsuit brought by the state Democratic Party against state and national Republicans.

Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Phillip Mangones dismissed a constitutional claim by the Democrats that the GOP interfered with Granite Staters’ right to a free and fair election when Republican operatives jammed the telephone lines of Democratic and union get-out-the-vote phone banks on the morning of Election Day 2002.

But Mangones kept alive the Democratic claims that the Republicans “intentionally and repeatedly interfered with the use of their telephonesystems, rendering them essentially useless, apparently over a not-unsubstantial period of time.”

Paul Twomey, an attorney working with the Democrats, said the ruling was a victory for his side because the suit was kept alive. He said a goal of thesuit is to find out more about who may have been behind the phone-jam besides three operatives who have either pled guilty or been found guilty. The partywants to depose high-ranking Republicans, including former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie.
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http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=GOP+fails+to+squash+phone-jam+civil+suit&articleId=b224aba9-82ca-4aa5-914a-489e9a56a49c

The stories seem incomplete without that info.