The New Hampshire Phone Scam - NY Times Editorial

Editorial
The New Hampshire Phone Scam
Published: September 17, 2007 - NY Times
On Election Day in 2002, when New Hampshire voters were going to the polls in a hotly contested Senate race, the phone lines in Democratic get-out-the-vote offices were jammed. The executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party pleaded guilty to phone harassment charges, but there has never been an adequate investigation of reports that the White House may have been involved.

Paul Hodes, a New Hampshire congressman, is asking the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate. It should conduct the searching inquiry that the Justice Department has not.

The Bush administration has spent a lot of time talking about mythical cases of voter fraud and election improprieties, but the New Hampshire phone jamming case was the real thing. Republican operatives hired an Idaho telemarketing firm to jam the lines to prevent people who needed help in voting from getting through. The scheme was a direct attack on American democracy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/opinion/17mon3.html?th&emc=th

.....and there never will be as long as the repugs are in office.

It took a little longer than it should have, but they're being run out of NH on rail now. Clean sweep of the State House, both House seats and Sununu in big trouble, probably down to his last few months in the Senate.

An investigation would be good, but slamming the door on their ass ("and don't come back!") is even better.