As Senator Rose, Lobbying Became Family Affair

New York Times ^ | July2, 2007 | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

[Politicalmom]

Here's the "big, scary hit piece".

My Dad just called from CA saying that Fred was in "big trouble."

Fortunately, he's arriving here tomorrow, so I can reassure him. :p

[Politicalmom]

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[RDTF]

This is all the NY Times can dig up? LOL

[Ciexyz]

btt

[angelsonmyside]

Hillary, Newt and now NY Slimes and he has not even made an official announcement. They must be sweating bullets.

[elizabetty]

The most shocking piece of information in here is that he rented the Red Pick Up truck he used campaigning.

[donna]

Family business - the Presidency will make them very rich.

[kellynla]

unless they catch Thompson in bed with a live boy or a dead girl, he will be the next POTUS.

deal with it, NYT...

[mmichaels1970]

I posted this before...

Although clients valued Tony Thompson’s service because of the perception that he had access to his father, Mr. Mathews said, Senator Thompson was sensitive to the potential appearance of favoritism to his sons’ clients and sought to keep a distance. Rather than relying on his father, Tony Thompson relied mainly on political contacts in Tennessee he had made campaigning for his father, Mr. Mathews said.

Sounds ok by me.

[goldstategop]

That this is a politically connected family? That's like saying hookers live in a bordello. Let the New York Times bring us something REALLY newsworthy.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[bybybill]

The NYT piece on the lobbists in the Reid family was much better. Oh, wait a minute, the Times didn`t run that story.

[Politicalmom]

Not true. It is parked in front of his Mom’s house in Tennessee right now.

The campaign leased it, for some arcane reason having to do with how campaign money can be spent.

[barker]

the Presidency will make them very rich.

It sure did the clintons.

[Jeff Chandler]

The NYT piece on the lobbists in the Reid family was much better.

The Nancy Pelosi defense contract piece is my favorite.

[Aria]

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. (born 22 September 1951, Mount Kisco, New York) became the publisher of The New York Times in 1992 and chairman of The New York Times Company in 1997. Sulzberger is the son of the previous Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and grandson of another Times publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. He is married to artist and journalist Gail Gregg.

Is the NYT saying there is something wrong with going into the family business?

[balch3]

since it’s the NY Slimes, it’s safe to assume every word of it is a lie.

[gunservative]

Imagine if the Slimes went fishing on Hillary...

[skimask]

What a joke....Is this all Hillary’s hit men can come up with?

[WOSG]

the headline behind the headline

As Conservative candidate Rose, Times dug deeper for dirt

Looming threat of electable conservative shocks Times into actual investigative reporting - but when will they mention the White House travel office under Hillary?

[Doofer]

Mr. Thompson is presenting himself as a reform-minded outsider.

I've heard many people make this claim; the only problem is that Fred never has, for bad or good.