3 years and $3 million later, it seems that the Republican National Committee finally stopped paying James Tobin’s legal bills after he was convicted for his role in the New Hampshire phone jamming in December.
I’ve been trying unsuccessfully for weeks to get the RNC to tell me whether they’re paying for Tobin’s appeal – which was mounted right after his conviction – but Peter Overbye of NPR reported yesterday that the RNC wasn’t paying for it. When I called him up today, he said he’d gotten that straight from the RNC.
I find it hard to believe that the RNC has taken so much heat for supporting Tobin over the last six months without disclosing this. But if what they told Overbye is true, it would appear that they finally balked at the point when Tobin’s “innocence” act was no longer tenable. They drew a line in the sand when it came to supporting a convicted felon.
