Posted on 07/08/2007 10:18:22 AM PDT by blogsforthompson.com
Over at Captains Quarters, Captain Ed ponders an interesting question brought forth by one of his readers. Apparently, the only evidence of Fred's work at National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association is a copy of the NFPRHA's board minutes from September 14, 1991 that claims that the group had hired Fred.
The big question is, at what point did Fred begin working there? Here's what Captain Ed found.
Now a new bit of indirect evidence has been found. Arent Fox brought Thompson into the firm to be "of counsel" in 1991 for his expertise in their lobbying business, including the representation of foreign governments. Anyone involved in such lobbying has to register with the Foreign Agent Registration Unit at the Department of Justice. Arent Fox filed its registration for its lobbyists, complete with the listings of all its lobbyists -- including their start and termination dates.Take a look at registrant #2661 in the FARA search system (unfortunately, the results are unlinkable). Fred D. Thompson, according to their records, starts as a lobbyist for foreign business on 10/10/1991 and terminates on 9/17/1993, which is when he decided to run for the remainder of Al Gore's term in the Senate. That gives some indication that Thompson started lobbying for Arent in October and not September of 1991. It's possible that Arent had limited Thompson to lobbying for domestic clients until October, but that seems rather odd, given their desire to have him on board as a major attraction for DC lobbying.
I'd be interested to know when he started lobbying for Arent Fox -- with an exact date. The information on Thompson's association with Arent Fox says that they hired Thompson specifically for lobbying on behalf of foreign customers, which would require the FARA registration with an exact date that such lobbying began. This implies that Thompson wouldn't have been available to the NFPRHA in Septemer 1991, and make the document on which the Times based its entire story somewhat suspect.
“Thank you for posting the quote, I was searching for it now.. that should be the final nail in the coffin of this story.. it is just sad that Duncan Hunter supporters are the ones dredging this up.. God protect Hunter from his supporters..”
You’re welcome. It came from the link provided right at the top of this page for this thread...Ed Morrissey at Captain’s Quarters....he dredged it up, but I didn’t know he was supporting Duncan Hunter ;)
Brother... some one need to give this reporter the score in Mass firing of USAG(Clinton 93, Bush 7)
“Did I dangle a modifier or something?”
Maybe, but you clarified it on the second go round and thank you for doing so. Sorry for any misunderstanding of what you meant.
In OCTOBER of ‘91 Bill Clinton only was 2% in the polls.
We are only about 30 days away from the Ames Iowa event. Now some of the major players aren’t going to participate but for those that do participate it may well be the defining moment in their future campaign plans.
Bill Clinton had won a statewide race. He was also a Dem nominee, not a Republican. Apples to oranges.
“Clinton didn’t enter the race until Oct. 4, 1999.”
You mean Clinton was president since ‘93 and didn’t even enter the race until ‘99?? How did that happen? :)
And here are some other examples as to why you shouldn’t act as if polls are a “done deal.”
CBS News Poll, December 14-16, 2003
Dean - 23%
Clark - 10%
Lieberman - 10%
Gephardt - 6%
Sharpton - 5%
Kerry - 4%
Edwards - 2%
Al Sharpton was beating John Kerry in the national polls. Al Sharpton. The day before the Iowa caucuses, CBS released another national primary poll where John Kerry managed to climb into 4th place nationally with a whopping 7% of the vote.
excerpt http://race42008.com/2007/07/05/why-national-primary-polls-dont-matter
“Bill Clinton had won a statewide race. He was also a Dem nominee, not a Republican. Apples to oranges.”
It was thought that President Reagan would not get the nomination, either.
And we never had a 1st lady become senator. History doesn’t always repeat itself.
When Duncan Hunter was a so-called dark horse in California, he won the election against an 18-year Democrat incumbent.
I’ll tell you another thing, too. Naysaying and giving up doesn’t win elections.
This is why the new media is so feared by the ratmedia. This would NEVER have been checked by the scumbags in the ratmedia.
No, you shouldn’t give up. You should support your guy. However, you should do it on threads that promote your guy rather than threads that are about another guy.
Many things are different about this election. I do contend that having won a statewide election is rather important. If a candidate can’t deliver his/her home state, he/she is not going to stand much of a chance in the general. That’s true about Al Gore and John Edwards as well.
So one person says something you object to, and you’re going to attack all Hunter supporters?
I’m confused. That website says he was registered on behalf of this firm, but it doesn’t say what he may have lobbied for. Is family planning (cough) the only thing that firm does?
I agree completely. Even the worst-case scenario is acceptable to me. All of these attacks may be doing Thompson a favor by giving his organization a good run-through in preparation for entering the race.
I dunno. I’ll let you know.
One thing’s for sure. Whatever I’m doing, I won’t be going on any Duncan Hunter threads and starting such little spats like all these folks did here.
I wasn’t aware that I attacked any supporters. If I was ‘attacking’ anything, it was the lack of effectiveness of Hunter’s campaign.
Nor will I.
I wasn’t aware that I attacked any supporters. If I was ‘attacking’ anything, it was the lack of effectiveness of Hunter’s campaign.
OK Sure.
So glad we cleared that up.
Did we? I guess time will tell.
Ooohh...yes, time will tell...
You go, girl! You really told it to me like it is!
How very mature.
You're a credit to your candidate.
So we can't tell from that link what Fred was hired to lobby for, can we?
I made a light-hearted joke that Thompson might be a good VP for Duncan Hunter, and never said anything bad about Thompson.
Sometimes we need to take a moment to smile.
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