New Hampshire judge gives hookers a bad name!
I’d heard about this over the transom throughout the day. And now the AP provides confirmation.
Former New England Bush-Cheney campaign chief Jim Tobin was arraigned today in federal court in Concord. Tobin, as first reported here on TPM, was at the center of the 2002 New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal.
Prosecutors said they thought he posed no flight risk and asked that he be released on his own recognizance.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge James Muirhead disagreed. He ordered Tobin to surrender his passport and any weapons and report to pretrial services.
“Heâs no different,” said Muirhead, “than a street hooker in Manchester. If heâs guilty, then I find his crime as offensive as any other crime.”
Election tampering, he went on to say, is an “outrage against the constitution.”
