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Fox Searchlight Will Examine 'How to Rig an Election'
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... , a Republican political consultant who went to prison for some shady maneuvers he pulled in trying to swing a tight Senate race in New Hampshire in 2002. Raymond's memoir, How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative, was published earlier this year, and Ray will write and direct the movie version for Fox Searchlight sometime in 2009, according to Variety. ...
Stalked: Entering Hades, Sleeper, Headshot, Election
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... from a novel by Allen Raymond that follows Raymond, a GOP operative (whatever that is because Variety seems to forget it's serving an international audience), who worked on a dirty tricks campaign (aren't they all?) against the Democratic Party in 2002. He used such tricks as calling opposition voters pretending to be campaigning for the opposition, during the Superbowl, but his downfall came when he hired a telemarketing company to fire automated calls at the Democratic headquarters in order to shut them down. He served three months in jail as a ...
