[TAdams8591]

"Thompson began working for Equitas in 2004 as part of a gold-plated team that included some of Washington's best-known lobbying firms: Quinn Gillespie & Associates (led by Edward W. Gillespie, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee), Ickes & Enright Group (led by Harold Ickes, an adviser to Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York) and DLA Piper, one of D.C.'s biggest lobbying law firms."

[TAdams8591]

He worked with THAT Harold Ickes?

[SE Mom]

Let’s add some clarity here...

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First we should remember that Fred has been practicing law for 27 years, excluding his time making laws in the Senate, and has only had 6 clients on whose behalf he has lobbied. A couple of those, including the alleged role lobbying for Haiti, were nothing more than a phone call or two on behalf of friends of his, according to a background source of mine who is close to Fred’s campaign.

Second, is the asbestos litigation really something to attack Fred on? Virtually every person in Washington dealt with the asbestos litigation in some way after the Supreme Court told Congress it needed to take a look at it. The effort was bipartisan and needed.

This again is another example of both why Fred Thompson is running and why he is running such an innovative campaign. The inside the beltway crowd, from the media to the politicians, love to pigeonhole anyone and everyone and presume each candidate is the sum of one of their parts instead of the whole.

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http://www.redstate.com/stories/archived/whos_afraid_of_big_bad_fred#comment