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Posted on 09/05/2007 4:45:14 AM PDT by Josh Painter
LITTLE ROCK - Tim Griffin, who resigned his post as interim U.S. attorney in Little Rock after serving six months under scrutiny, said he is now an adviser for former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson's expected presidential campaign.
Thompson, a former Republican senator from Tennessee and a regular on "Law & Order," was expected to formally announce his candidacy Thursday.
"Clearly, Sen. Thompson is who I think is going to serve the (Republican) party best in the 2008 elections," Griffin told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story published in its Wednesday edition. "I think he has broad appeal. I think he's a solid conservative."
Griffin, a former aide to ex-presidential adviser Karl Rove, said he will advise Thompson's campaign as part of his new job as managing director and general counsel for Mercury Public Affairs.
A spokesman for Friends of Fred Thompson said the campaign was excited to have Griffin as an adviser.
"He is highly respected and brings a wealth of experience in presidential politics," said Todd Harrison, a spokesman.
Griffin was appointed as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas after Bud Cummins resigned his post. Cummins later said he was forced out by the U.S. Department of Justice, and his firing was one of several that prompted a congressional inquiry of the dismissals.
"Politics is going to be part of what I do, but I really hope to build a corporate clientele, a business clientele," Griffin said.
I bet he is a Republican also.
A man like this has no place in a Republican campaign.
Thompson as a Republican should know better than to put another republican on his staff. I have to question his judgment.
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Thought for a minute that it was Kathy Griffin!
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