The AP has a story this afternoon about James Tobin’s contacts with the White House around Election Day, 2002, the day that the New Hampshire GOP jammed the phones for Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts. Tobin was the RNC’s New England Regional Political Director at the time, and a key figure in orchestrating the jamming.
As far as details go, there’s not much more here than what we learned back in March: that Tobin was in very close touch with the White House’s political affairs office around the same time that he helped plan the jamming. As we noted then, he called the White House twelve times on the big day.
Democrats are pressing a civil suit against the GOP in New Hampshire, and they plan to ask a federal judge tomorrow “to order GOP and White House officials to answer questions about the phone jamming in a civil lawsuit alleging voter fraud.”
