Fredipedia: The Definitive Fred Thompson Reference
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Posted on 06/25/2007 12:34:59 PM PDT by PlainOleAmerican
Republican Fred Thompson, who likes to cast himself in the role of Washington outsider, has a long history as a political insider who earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government.
As a lobbyist for more than 20 years, billion-dollar corporations paid Thompson for his access to members of Congress and White House staff. During that time he was close to two Senate majority leaders, both from his home state of Tennessee - his political mentor Howard Baker and, more recently, his former colleague Bill Frist.
During Baker's tenure, Thompson lobbied for a savings-and-loan deregulation bill that helped hasten the industry's collapse and a failed nuclear energy project that cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars.
More recently, while Frist led the Senate, Thompson earned more than $750,000 lobbying for a British reinsurance company that wanted to limit its liability from asbestos lawsuits.
That history as a Washington insider is at odds with the image Thompson has sought to convey to voters. When he first ran for the Senate in 1993, Thompson cast himself in the part of the gruff, plainspoken everyman, leased a red pickup truck and drove around Tennessee in his shirt sleeves.
Now, as he considers an expected run for president in 2008, the actor-politician continues to position himself as a political outsider.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
This advent is what scares me most about the future of this country!
I thought conservatives stopped reading DNC talking points in the MSM years ago... I’m learning that some are still reading and regurgitating...
Tell me what’s wrong with Thompson’s part time lobby work? I mean, specifically...
Then you’ll be able to follow me soon...
Don't forget Hillary's war room. Democrats are as afraid of Thompson running as the Republican candidates.
I have not read up on his lobby work.
I'm beginning to think that they inadvertantly allowed themselves to be brainwashed. That's the only explanation for the "believe as I do or else" crew around here.
That’s where the NewMax/ASS press story originated.
From a DNC letter to supporters last week...
“Remember the Republican culture of corruption? The revolving door of Republican politicians moving in and out of top political offices and Washington D.C. lobbying firms?
That’s Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson.
For years, acting wasn’t the Law & Order star’s profession — it was a hobby. In the real world, Thompson has made a fortune in a decades-long career as a Washington lobbyist.
And just this month, as part of his role as the ultimate Washington insider, Thompson offered to host yet another fundraising event for Scooter Libby’s legal defense fund. Thompson has been vocal in his support of Libby, saying that he would “absolutely” pardon him.
As he runs for president, he’ll try his hardest to hide the truth from the American people. And we need to stop him.
Support our efforts to get the truth out about Fred Thompson:”
Tom McMahon
DNC
You should then... Read his Thompson Report on Clinton campaign fraud too, that was buried by Reno, the DNC and the press.
But for starters, is Lobby work evil or wrong in your mind?
Noted!
No thank you.
Which includes all of the Ron Paul "supporters", like the ones who started making dark accusations about Thompson probably being "a globalist" who will refuse not to tariff imports.
I guess $1 million sounds more excessive than $50k a year.
John Edwards must have made all his money building wheelchair ramps for the poor.
For me, it’s down to Tom Tancredo, Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson.
AH YES, the Rockwell memo...it worked so well against the Bush administration, they’ll use it against all political rivals from now on. It’s like final version of the DNC Art of Warfarin - bleeding a rival’s character dry via the media. Nature of the charges and all that.
Is NewsMax really in the Rudy corner? [I really don’t know. NewsMax always put out such garbage, I quit reading it a good while back.]
So?
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