CNN: Top Adviser Resigns After Butting Heads with Thompson’s Wife (video)

Breitbart/CNN ^ | 7/24/07 | staff

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The top adviser to Fred Thompson submitted his resignation Wednesday. Tom Collimore joined Thompson's effort after being recruited away from Altria from brands like Phillip Morris and Kraft.

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Interesting.

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Ping

[mnehring]

Don’t mess with Jeri, she may be labeled as a ‘hoochie mamma’ by some here, but if you look at her resume, you’ll realize she is a firecracker..

[Mr. Jeeves]

Is the MSM giving up on the “trophy wife” angle and switching to “Wifezilla”, instead? ;)

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I had no idea she was running his campaign.

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The Judi Giuliani syndrome.

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I had no idea she was running his campaign.

And for someone that has yet to annouce, shes doing a damn good job because he's leading them all!

[mnehring]

I had no idea she was running his campaign.

You aren't married are you?

[Tarpon]

hmmm, I thought Tom Collimore, the Phillip Morris guy, joined to help organize the first wave, testing the waters. Why is it a big deal when Fred hires a guy to do the permanent job? Why is that a shake up instead of more preparations?

Sounds like Fred’s a gearing up for the real deal.

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Maybe Hunter can hire her. LOL

[Homer1]

between this, pro-abortion lobbying-gate and his lack of announcement, this thing is imploding...

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Indeed I am. Alas my poor wife has to take care of two littlens so she only gets to be boss part time.

[Calpernia]

bump

[mnehring]

I need to send my wife over to talk to your wife.. sounds like she doesn’t have you trained properly.. You should know the proper pecking order (as I have been taught in my house): 1. Wife 2. Cat 3. Piano 4. Me..

[Kimberly GG]

Thanks...interesting replacement choice...Spencer Abrahams

Voted as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee to end chain migration and crack down on illegal immigration in 1996

Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration

Voted to strip legal reforms from 1996 bill

Voted in favor of chain migration in 1996

Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000.

Voted in 2000 to triple the number of H-1B visas available annually

Voted in committee to maintain H-1B cap increase in 2000

Nearly doubled H-1B foreign high-tech workers in 1998

Voted in committee against including worker safeguards in H-1B bill in 1998

Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998

Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998

Sen. Abraham has taken no action to reduce the rewarding of illegal immigration by giving citizenship to anchor babies.

Voted against an amnesty for illegal aliens in 2000
Sen. Abraham voted against a procedural vote to include an amnesty for illegal aliens from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Haiti in the Senate H-1B bill (S.2045).

Led effort to grant amnesty to 50,000
illegal aliens from Haiti, plus their families, in 1998
Sen. Abraham helped create the pressure in the Senate during 1998 that led to an amnesty for some 50,000 illegal aliens from Haiti who came to the U.S. before Dec. 31, 1995, plus their spouses and children. Altogether, this amnesty is expected to reward 125,000 Haitians with legal residence in the United States. He co-sponsored S.1504 that the Senate Appropriations Committee eventually slipped into an omnibus supplemental appropriations bill. That meant the full Senate never debated or voted directly on rewarding the illegal aliens. The legislation was written for illegal aliens who had been given “temporary asylum” in 1995 because of civil and political disorder at the time in Haiti. But after the U.S. spent hundreds of millions of dollars to drive out the Haitian dictatorship and to democratize Haiti, the Haitian illegal aliens still refused to go home. They received full backing from Sen. Abraham to remain permanently in the U.S. No part of the House of Representatives ever considered the amnesty. But in emergency negotiations at the end of the 105th Congress, President Clinton successfully insisted on including the amnesty in the final appropriations bill.

Voted to grant amnesty to nearly one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997
Sen. Abraham voted to grant legal status to Nicaraguans and Cubans who had lived in the United States illegally since 1995, along with their spouses and minor unmarried children. The overall ten year impact of this legislation will be the addition of some 967,000 people to U.S. population. There was no separate vote on the amnesty, as it was included in the DC Appropriations bill. The only opportunity Senators had to vote in favor of or against the amnesty was the Mack Amendment to S.1156. The Mack Amendment passed 99-1.

Voted in 1996 for major law that cracked down on illegal aliens.
Sen. Abraham was part of a 97-3 majority which passed S.1664. It was a large omnibus bill with dozens of provisions aimed at reducing illegal immigration. It authorized major increases in the border patrol forces. But it also had many provisions aimed at making life more miserable for illegal aliens who manage to get into the country, half of whom arrive with legal visas but then illegally overstay. Until passage of the bill, a person could be apprehended as an illegal alien, be deported and then turn around and come back to the U.S. on a legal student, tourist, worker or relative visa. After the bill, an illegal alien was barred from any kind of legal entry for 10 years.

In 1996, removed higher fines for businesses which hire illegal aliens
Sen. Abraham, in committee consideration of S.1664 protected businesses from having to pay higher fines when they are caught hiring illegal aliens. Under the idea that current fines were not enough of a deterrent against businesses cutting their labor costs by hiring illegal aliens, the Senate immigration subcommittee approved higher fines. Various study commissions have found that the willingness of U.S. businesses to hire illegal aliens is the No. 1 incentive for foreign workers to become illegal aliens here. But Sen. Abraham voted with a 10-8 majority in the Judiciary Committee to remove the higher fines from the 1996 legislation against illegal immigration.

Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996

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What’s the deal with Spencer Abraham though?

[mnehring]

Got a link to that? (FYI, if NumbersUSA you may want to verify the bills.. that site has been discredited..)

[shrinkermd]

I watched the TV tape by CNN. They definitely said that his wife is running the campaign. If so, this is a gargantuan mistake. Giving advice within a family is far different than actually running a political campaign. She can give advice but what he needs is a tough minded, able person to direct campaign activities.

[counterpunch]

According to this report Fred's wife is running his campaign. But that is likely to run into difficulties with the bill making its way through congress right now that bars politicians' spouses from being on the campaign payroll.

Bill seeks to keep relatives off payroll

[Kimberly GG]

Actually it did come from NumbersUSA.

Got a link to where the site has legitimately been discredited? I’ve found no reason to believe that they’ve posted any incorrect information about Duncan Hunter.