Convicted GOP Operative to Run Campaign School

Via democrats.org

No, we're not joking.

The Union Leader reported today that convicted phone-jammer and former New Hampshire Republican Party Executive Director Charles McGee is inviting Republican political operatives to a campaign school that will teach them 'all the tools you need to win.'

For McGee, one of those tools was a criminal conspiracy to block the phone lines at Democratic get-out-the-vote call centers on Election Day in 2002. McGee, one of three people sentenced to jail time for their roles in the scheme, served seven months in prison last year after pleading guilty to conspiracy charges.

To help young Republican organizers decide whether to attend McGee's campaign school, the DNC today issued a list of expected lecture topics:

Charles McGee's Lecture Topics

* Voting Rights: Fundamental Protection, or Annoying Technicality?

* Phone Jamming 101: Telemarketers-They're Not Just a Nuisance Anymore

* The Art of the Cover-Up: When to Call and, More Importantly, When Not to Call

* White House Phone Records: Remember Your Discovery Rules!

* Jailhouse Politics: How to Organize Your Cellblock

The DNC also thought an expected reading list might be helpful.

A GOP Prison Reading List (to help pass the time when McGee's tactics land them in jail, too)

* Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

* Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam, by Randy 'Duke' Cunningham.

* Rediscovering Our American Values: The Real Story Of The Union, by Tom DeLay

* True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall, by Mark Salzman

* Russian Prison Tattoos: Codes of Authority, Domination, and Struggle, by Alix Lambert"