'Law & Order' And Lobbying (Thompson Defends "Burning Necklace" Aristide)

Politico ^ | April 2, 2007 | Fred P. Vogel

[Austin Willard Wright]

These sections are particularly interesting:

Over about two decades of lobbying (during which he also acted and practiced law), Thompson made nearly $1.3 million and represented clients including a British reinsurance company facing billions of dollars in asbestos claims, Canadian-owned cable companies, and deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, according to government documents and media accounts from his first run for the Senate in 1994

Thompson did file papers with the Justice Department to represent Haitian President Aristide in October 1991, two weeks after Aristide was overthrown. The filing lists Thompson as a member of the Washington-based law firm Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn and says he intended to lobby Congress, the State Department and the White House "in order to obtain the restoration of the democratically elected government of the Republic of Haiti."

[Rodney King]

Over about two decades of lobbying (during which he also acted and practiced law), Thompson made nearly $1.3 million

My God! That' almost $65,000 per year! /sarcasm

[Mr. K]

oh- NOW the liberals hate Aristide...

Wasn’t it CLINTON who helped him get back into power?????

And isn’t there another presidential hopeful named Clinton???

[airborne]

Have you got your asbestos pajamas on? ;^)

[Rodney King]

That, however, was in a watershed Republican year, and it was before the Jack Abramoff scandal tarred lobbyists in the public's mind as corrupt, self-dealing influence peddlers.

Yes, before Jack Abramoff, lobbyists were well respected as doers of the public good.

Sorry, whatever story is here is swamped by the authors cluelessness.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Yes, I do but I better get on the next plane out of town just to be sure! It may be enlightening, however, to stick around and hear the various rationalizations of the Fred Heads, which will be something to the effect that Fred was “just following orders” or “that’s what lobbyists do.”

[Austin Willard Wright]

ping

[elizabetty]

My God! That' almost $65,000 per year! /sarcasm

For how many hours work?

[Little Ray]

Pretty disgusting for ANYBODY to support Aristide...

[OKIEDOC]

Looks like to me that the Muck Divers are not only diging in the Democrat Cesspool but in public records.

What is it about this story that dosen’t get me turned off to Thompson and turned on to Hellary Klinton.

Hellary scares the Hill out of me.

So do Republicans who speak ill of other (real) Republicans.

Oh I know!

Your say well Okiedoc you speak ill of McCaniac, Limply Gramnasty, Trench Lotto, Arlo Sphincter and others.

Well folks, for the record those sell out hypocrites are not Republicans but RINOS deserving of a swift kick in the sphincter muscle.

[Austin Willard Wright]

What is it about this story that dosen’t get me turned off to Thompson and turned on to Hellary Klinton.

Huh? Are you arguing that if you get "turned off" by Fred's support for Jean "Burning Necklace" Aristide that your only choice is to turn to Hitlary? Strange reasoning there. Oh....and "what is it?"

[stylin19a]

Hey...sound bite...you forgot this

"Corallo had a different take, asserting Thompson "didn't file papers to represent President Aristide. He filed papers to discuss the Haitian embargo." And Corallo said Thompson was not paid for his Haiti work, which consisted of a single telephone call to then-White House Chief of Staff John Sununu.

"That's the only thing he ever did on that. So that's that," Corallo said, adding that Thompson is no longer associated with Arent Fox or any other law or lobbying firm. "

I'm not a Fredhead (yet ), but if this is the best you've got, maybe I should look closer at Fred.

[Clara Lou]

Corallo had a different take, asserting Thompson "didn't file papers to represent President Aristide. He filed papers to discuss the Haitian embargo." And Corallo said Thompson was not paid for his Haiti work, which consisted of a single telephone call to then-White House Chief of Staff John Sununu. "That's the only thing he ever did on that. So that's that," Corallo said, adding that Thompson is no longer associated with Arent Fox or any other law or lobbying firm.
Didja read the article? [The author didn't counter these comments by Corallo, BTW.]

[Austin Willard Wright]

in order to obtain the restoration of the democratically elected government of the Republic of Haiti."

You must have missed this part....but heh if you want to believe Fred's spin doctor, go for it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Yes, I do but I better get on the next plane out of town just to be sure! It may be enlightening, however, to stick around and hear the various rationalizations of the Fred Heads, which will be something to the effect that Fred was “just following orders” or “that’s what lobbyists do.”

Lawyers represent bad people every day.

WTF do you think the "right to an attorney" would mean if they didn't?

That's what lawyers do, and the fact that you find it offensive labels you as intellectually challenged at best, and intellectually bankrupt at worst.

[Clara Lou]

Your comments are just pathetic. I may download that script just so I can avoid your unfounded, inflammatory lies.

[Clara Lou]

Then, Willard, why didn’t the author give any refutation of the comments? He would, of course, if he could, right?

[Austin Willard Wright]

Nor did Fred spin's doctor counter the part that Fred supporte "the restoration of the democratically elected government of the Republic of Haiti [Aristide]."

I don't see what that have to do with an embargo.

[johnny7]

Politico is a DBM blog...

[Austin Willard Wright]

Willard? Getting personal. Getting under your skin eh? Give my regards to Opie and Aunt Bea.