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GOP operative and ex-con comes clean about the dirty jobs in politics
Allen Raymond was running six states for the Republican National Committee, but his old RNC cronies abandoned him as soon as he got into trouble.
- PETER CARLSON / The Washington Post
- Feb 12, 2008
- Feb 12, 2008
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“I wasn't in it for a cause. To me it was business,” says political operative Allen Raymond, in his home in Bethesda, Md. He has written a book, “How to Rig an Election,” about his campaign shenanigans. (Lois Raimondo) HANDOUT
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WASHINGTON — Allen Raymond is out of prison now, and out of politics, too. The former Republican campaign operative did his time in federal prison for dirty tricks in the 2002 election. Now he’s sitting on the couch in the bright, airy living room of his big brick house in Bethesda, looking back over the wreckage of his political career.
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