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October 24, 2008 04:24 AM UTC

Markey Unleashes Fresh Musgrave Scandal

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  • by: Colorado Pols

We’re making popcorn while the Rocky Mountain News reports late today:

The Markey campaign has dug up $30,200 in payments that Musgrave’s campaign has made since August 2007 to a marketing company that employs an executive who served time in prison.

The crime involved a plot to thwart get-out-the-vote phone drives by Democrats and a firefighters union on Election Day in New Hampshire in 2002.

“With all we’re hearing of voter suppression going on around the country, it’s very troubling that Marilyn Musgrave is paying for service from a criminal who has served time in prison for an illegal Election Day scheme,” Ben Marter, Markey’s campaign spokesman, said Thursday.

But the executive in question, Charles McGee,vice president of political and corporate communications for Spectrum Marketing Companies, Inc., said he’s not working on Musgrave’s campaign and doesn’t know the level of Spectrum’s involvement…

McGee, a former executive director of the Republican Party in New Hampshire, has ties to Musgrave that date to at least 1998. He volunteered for Musgrave when she ran for the state Senate, according to his bio on Spectrum’s Web site.

“I’ve known her for many years, but I don’t work with her,” he said. [Pols emphasis]

Which scene in Rocky do you think this is, anyway? And is it the first Rocky or the one with Dolph Lundgren?

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4 thoughts on “Markey Unleashes Fresh Musgrave Scandal”

  1. The Politico reports on the GOP ‘goner’ list warns of House rout

    An internal document circulating among House Republicans warns of an impending congressional bloodbath, listing 58 Republican-held House seats being at risk, and 11 already considered as good as gone. As many as 34 GOP-held seats are in serious jeopardy of swinging to Democrats, the assessment shows. [snip]

    Drafted by a Republican consultant, the document ranks seats on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most likely for a Democratic takeover. Eleven members received a 5, meaning the seat is gone unless “a significant turn of events” changes things in the final two weeks. An additional seven seats are ranked as a 4, in the leaning Democratic category, and 16 seats are in the tossup category.

    One well-connected Republican operative told Politico that the list, if anything, understated the number of members needing a political lifeline. The operative also said the GOP is all but writing off the seats of Reps. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.), Joseph Knollenberg (R-Mich.), Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Phil English (R-Pa.), and the open New Mexico House seat of retiring Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.), who is running for the Senate.

    h/t to SquareState

    Either the GOP has finally come to terms with the loss, or this is the best “setting the bar low” memo ever.  

  2. …on the outside?  If he served his time, and there’s no evidence (or even credible suggestion) that he’s breaking the law now……what’s the beef?

    1. However, as with many sensitive positions, I think violating election law should be a long-term disqualifier from ever again working in election-related activities.

      His crime was only six years ago, and he’s once again an executive at a campaign marketing firm serving the same party that had him corrupting elections back then?  Not acceptable.

    2. no one will/can hire you to deal with money.

      But I agree, it’s not that big of a deal.  If he really wanted to help his friend do something sinister, he wouldn’t need to work for a marketing company.  If she’d been paying him directly for things unknown, then I’d be suspicious, but $30,000 for mailings doesn’t seem inappropriate.

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