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Charles McGee
Charles McGee was the Executive Director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee (NHRSC).
On July 28, 2004 McGee pled guilty to one count of Conspiracy to engage in interstate telephone communications with the intent to annoy or harass. On March 11, 2005 he was sentenced to seven months in prison, which he began serving April 26, 2005. He has since served his time and been released.
See McGee's Grand Ole Docket entry for ongoing court dates.
Key Points:
McGee conceived and organized the phone-jamming operation in New Hampshire on Election Day 2002.
Sometime in October of 2002 McGee informed James Tobin - then the New England Regional Director of the Republican National Committee and Northeast political director for the National Republican Senatorial Committee - that he wanted to hire a telephone services company to jam the phone lines of Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts on Election Day. (according to Tobin's May 18, 2005 indictment)
In October of 2002 Tobin directed McGee to Allen Raymond, president of Virginia-based telephone service vendor, GOP Marketplace. Raymond then contracted Shaun Hansen's Mylo Enterprises to make the actual phone calls on Election Day, November 5, 2002.
McGee paid GOP Marketplace with New Hampshire Republican Party money to enact the phone-jamming plan.
On November 4, 2002, one day before Election Day, McGee sent a check for $15,600 drawn on the account of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee to GOP Marketplace as payment for placing hang-up calls repeatedly throughout Election Day. GOP Marketplace then tendered a check for $2,500 to Mylo Enterprises to place the calls. (according to Tobin's May 18, 2005 indictment)
McGee resigned as NHRSC Executive Director after lying to a newspaper about the phone-jamming operation.
On February 7, 2003 the Manchester Union-Leader broke the New Hampshire phone-jamming story. That morning McGee denied he had anything to do with the operation and told the newspaper he had "vaguely heard of GOP Marketplace and did not hire the firm."
Later the same day Jayne Millerick, a Republican Party consultant, told the paper that McGee was mistaken and that he had in fact hired the firm. McGee then resigned as Executive Director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, the immediate cause for which being his lie to the Manchester Union Leader.
Research by Ben Craw and Amram Migdal
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