Posted on 07/09/2007 7:40:18 AM PDT by hardback
Spokesman Mark Corallo adamantly denied that Thompson worked for the family-planning group. "Fred Thompson did not lobby for this group, period," he said in an e-mail.
In a telephone interview, he added: "There's no documents to prove it, there's no billing records, and Thompson says he has no recollection of it, says it didn't happen."
In a separate interview, John Sununu, the White House official whom Thompson was hired to contact, said he had no memory of any lobbying and doubted it took place.
Sununu said in a telephone interview: "I don't recall him ever lobbying me on that at all. I don't think that ever happened. In fact, I know that never happened."
At the time, Thompson was a lobbyist and lawyer "of counsel" to Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, a Washington firm. DeSarno said the family-planning association paid the firm for Thompson's work. Marc Fleischaker, the chairman of Arent Fox, declined to comment.
In a videotaped message to the National Right To Life Convention in Kansas City in June, Thompson said the group's issues were "ever more profound to me as the years go by."
A senator from December 1994 to January 2003, Thompson voted along anti-abortion lines, but his statements occasionally have raised questions about his commitment to the cause.
In recent weeks, Thompson has described himself as fundamentally "pro-life," saying the issue has "meant a little more to me" since he viewed the sonogram of his now-3-year-old daughter.
Best known for playing a district attorney on NBC's Law & Order, Thompson worked as a lobbyist over nearly three decades, both before and after his Senate term.
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I am very glad to hear it.
Hasn’t this rumor already been traced back to the Hillary people?
The libs must be really worried once that poll came out with Hilly and Fred tied, since all of these attack stories are coming before he even annouces a candidacy!
That's far better than the previous statement that "he has no recollection of it".
Hunter or Thompson or Brownback. It is nice to have good options instead of just Rudy McRomney.
I can’t say whether he’s acting on behalf of Hillary, but here’s an extract from Wikipedia on the lying Rat behind the story, who is mentioned again in this article:
Michael Darr Barnes (born September 3, 1943 in Washington, DC) represented the eighth district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1987 and has been the president of the Brady Campaign gun control organization since March 1, 2000.
. . . [Barnes was elected] to the House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1978.
As a member of Congress, Barnes was an outspoken critic of Ronald Reagan’s Central America policy. Oliver North and Robert McFarlane were reluctant to share information with Barnes’ staff during the Iran-Contra Affair because they believed one of them was relaying information to the Sandinista government.
In 1986, Barnes lost the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Maryland to Barbara Mikulski and retired to private legal practice until his appointment as president of the Brady Campaign.
[Barnes was also responsible for organizing the Million Mom March.]
Exactly, the MSM has no explanation why Fred is leading in the polls!
It wouldn’t shock me if this came from Hilly, she is capable of anything.
Wouldn't it help to clear things up if Fred were to ask to see the billing records for the alleged lobby effort.
You got the first two... embarrassed yourself on the third.
Brownback is for amnesty.
Yeah, that was kinda like "Matthew or Mark or...Judas..."
mrs. sauropod (too lazy today to log in :D)
I’m not embarrassed of Brownback. I don’t like his immigration position, but then I didn’t like that position when I voted for Bush who holds an even more pro-amnesty position. Brownback has represented me well on nearly everything except that one issue. Had the Democrat won, he would have been pro-amnesty AND pro-taxes, pro-perversity, pro-death etc etc.
I do not support Brownback’s position on immigration. I didn’t/still don’t support Bush’s position on immigration either.
This is a copy of the original article as published in the LA Slimes.
Fred Thompson IS NOT a "GOP Candidate."
But he soon will be, I hope. Hurry FRed, the nation needs you.
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