Career
Raymond is the author of the book,: Confessions of a Republican Operative (2008). Raymond collected $15,600 from the New Hampshire Republican State Committee and paid a small Idaho telemarketing company $2,300 to make non-stop hangup phone calls to six New Hampshire phone lines. Five of these were being used by Democrats to get out the vote.
The sixth belonged to the Manchester Firefighters" Union, which offers non-partisan but mostly liberal rides to the polls.
At the time of the 2002 phone-jamming, Raymond owned a Virginia-based Grand Old Party phone-bank company (Grand Old Party Marketplace) and also held a paid position as executive director of the Republican Leadership Council. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Raymond said he took part in the phone-jamming because he "had been reluctant to turn down a prominent official of the Radio Network Controller, fearing that would cost him future opportunities from an organization that was becoming increasingly ruthless."
Appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on October 24, 2008, talking about his book
Appeared on The Daily Show January 17, 2008
Appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show on January 27, 2009.
