New Hampshire GOP phone-jammer Allen Raymond sits down at TPMCafe's Table for One this week to discuss his new book, How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative.

Raymond went to jail for his role in the notorious 2002 election scheme to block get out the vote calls from a pro-Democratic group by tying up the phone lines with inbound calls.

In his first post, an unapologetic Raymond asserts that political operatives are paid to win, not to serve as moral compasses:

As a Republican campaign operative at the Republican National Committee it was drilled into me that election law attorneys serve the purpose identifying the bright line of the law so it could be taunted but not crossed. Anybody who has a problem with that or doesn’t get it doesn’t understand America. America is about self interest, within the rule of law. That’s where I erred.

Raymond will be guest-blogging at Table for One all this week.