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The GOP Operative Haunting Republicans From the Grave

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Tom Hofeller was a dedicated Republican operative, committed to achieving GOP political dominance and doing it with utmost discretion. Now, his political legacy is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court—and all because his daughter shared his old computer archives with the wrong group of lawyers. Guests: Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause North Carolina. David Daley, author of Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It was just a few days into the new year.

0:44.0

When Bob Phillips walked into his North Carolina office and he got this phone call.

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And I will say jokingly but respectfully, we get a lot of calls here.

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Bob works at Common Cause.

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That's a nonprofit focused on government accountability, photo rights.

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And it's easy just to kind of briefly listen and say, hey, we don't do that.

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This call, it was from someone he didn't expect.

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The daughter of a GOP operative had been keeping track of for years.

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My first instinct was that maybe she was going to blow some steam at us

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and we're a plaintiff and a lawsuit that involves her father's work.

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This woman's dad was a guy named Tom Hofler.

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