WHY SHOULD THE CITIZENS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT NOVEMBER FOR JOHN SUNUNU TO BE REMOVED FROM THE SENATE? AND WHY ISN'T ROVE IN PRISON?

For several years now DWT has been following the case of New Hampshire's stolen U.S. Senate election of 2002, when John Sununu managed to slip into office the same way Bush did two years earlier-- by cheating. Several of the Republican operatives involved in stealing the election were charged, convicted and imprisoned. But they were low-level Republican slime-for-hire, and no real investigation of the people from whom they took their orders, or who paid them, was ever undertaken. Mehlman, Rove and, of course, Sununu were the ones who should have been in prison. Instead they all got away scot-free... until now.

One of the perps, Allen Raymond, has written a book about how the GOP stole a U.S. Senate seat, How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative, due out from Simon & Schuster in January. Raymond explains the cover-up and "offers a raw, inside glimpse of the phone scandal as it unraveled and of a ruthless world in which political operatives seek to win at all costs."

Next year Sununu will face the woman, (now former Gov.) Jeanne Shaheen, he stole the 2002 election from once again, and every poll shows him trailing badly. That's good, but not nearly enough. He should be tried for a very grave crime, along with the Republican Party officials who enabled and him and their party, starting with Rove and Mehlman.


UPDATE ON GOP ELECTION STEALING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Will it surprise you to read that successful attempts to steal a desperately needed U.S. Senate in New Hampshire went beyond Republican Party officials and right into the heart of the Bush Regime? Today the McClatchy newspapers are reporting that "the Justice Department delayed prosecuting a key Republican official [subsequently convicted Karl Rove stooge James Tobin] for jamming the phones of New Hampshire Democrats until after the 2004 election, protecting top GOP officials from the scandal until the voting was over... [T]he official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, told McClatchy that senior Justice Department officials slowed the inquiry. The official didn't know whether top department officials ordered the delays or what motivated those decisions." Who would like to venture a guess?