The Daily Background

I don’t know if you’ve heard about this already.

A major figure in the Election Day phone-jamming scandal that embarrassed and nearly bankrupted the New Hampshire GOP is out of prison and back in the political game.

Charles McGee, the former executive director of the state Republican Party, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and served seven months for his part in the scheme to have a telemarketer tie up Democratic and union phone lines in 2002.

He’s back at his old job with a Republican political marketing firm, Spectrum Monthly & Printing Inc., and will be helping out at the firm’s “GOP campaign school” for candidates.

NH is of course my state, and I’m in it right now. I was listening to New Hampshire Public Radio just yesterday and they were all abuzz about this crook coming back to work, and the Republicans are taking this convicted felon back. Pretty scandalous if you think about it. This guy goes out if his way– not to boost a Republican candidate, but to illegally do damage to the Democratic Party in this state.

And he didn’t just attack a Democratic cannidate, but he actually discouraged get out the vote efforts. He wanted less people to vote. That’s downright undemocratic. And the Republican candidate for Senate ended up winning. And they welcome him back with open arms. Disgusting. One wonders if he’ll try and do anything this fall.

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