...the Spokesman-Review newspaper reported that West was a closeted homosexual who visited gay chat rooms using his city-owned laptop computer and offered internships and other favors to young men he hoped to have sex with. West, a former Boy Scout executive and sheriff's deputy, was elected mayor in 2003 after serving more than two decades as a Republican in the state Legislature, where he voted against gay-friendly bills.James "America Hater" Tobin...
A federal prosecutor yesterday described James Tobin as the linchpin in an "evil scheme" to jam Democratic phone banks across New Hampshire on election day in 2002.
Tobin, a former New England campaign chairman for President Bush, faces up to 19 years in prison and $1 million in fines on four counts stemming from the 2002 incident. His trial began yesterday in U.S. District Court in Concord and is expected to last up to eight days.
Two men have already entered guilty pleas for their roles in the phone jamming: Charles McGee, who was the executive director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee at the time of the 2002 election, and Allen Raymond, then head of a Virginia-based Republican consulting firm. McGee served a seven-month sentence in federal prison; Raymond has been sentenced to five months but has not yet served his time.
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