New Hampshire: Justice Served Cash Dispensed
Let us step into the way-back machine, dear readers, and transport ourselves back to Election Day, 2002, the first Congressional election of the post-911 era. The terror attacks had taken place just a little over a year before the vote, and yet, the national unity and good will was gone. Bush and Co. were feening like addicts to get into Iraq, and they needed to recapture the Senate to start the bombs a droppin’.
And so, on Election day 2002, the GOP jammed the Democratic Party’s GOTV and poll ride phone bank in New Hampshire. They took it down for two hours and Republican John Sununu beat Democrat Jean Shaheen by a narrow margain.
The case was settled today. Justice and a cleverly related song after the jump.
Reports the Associated Press:
The New Hampshire Democratic Party, which had sought compensation in an Election Day 2002 phone-jamming scheme, settled its lawsuit against the Republican Party for an undisclosed sum, state Republicans said. The case had been expected to go to trial Monday.
And so, the Democrats, who have been sent to clean up Washington’s “Culture of Corruption,” in the 2006 electoral landslide, have allowed the Republicans to save some face. They took the hush money rather than going to trial and dissecting the White House sleaze machine in a public trial.
We think it was a good call. We’re sure they would do the same for you, especially now that they owe you one, Democrats. Plus, what moral leadership you have shown! To the Democrats! To a better tomorrow! And most importantly, New Hampshire: live free or die!
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