Posted on 07/06/2007 5:33:23 PM PDT by new yorker 77
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fred Thompson, who is weighing a Republican presidential bid as a social conservative, "has no recollection" of performing lobbying work in 1991 for a family planning group that was seeking to relax an abortion counseling rule, a spokesman said Friday. The Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site that Thompson was retained by National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association to lobby the administration of President George H.W. Bush to ease a regulation that prevented clinics that received federal money from offering any abortion counseling.
At the time, Thompson, a lawyer, worked as a lobbyist at Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, a Washington firm.
"He may have been consulted by one of the firm's partners who represented this group in 1991," Thompson spokesman Mark Corallo said Friday in a statement. "As any lawyer would know, such consultations take place within law firms everyday."
The newspaper cited minutes from a meeting of the association when Thompson's work was discussed as well as the recollections of five individuals.
Judith DeSarno, the association's former president, told The Times that she had specific memories of discussing Thompson's lobbying work with him in phone conversations and during meals at Washington restaurants.
Minutes of a Sept. 14, 1991, meeting of the association, cited by the newspaper, states: "Judy (DeSarno) reported that the Association had hired Fred Thompson, Esq., as counsel to aid us in discussions with the administration." According to The Times, DeSarno said Thompson told her he discussed the abortion restriction with John Sununu, then chief of staff to Bush.
Sununu told The Times that he didn't recall Thompson ever discussing the abortion restriction with him. "In fact, I know that never happened."
"It is not unusual for one lawyer on one side of an issue to be asked to give advice to colleagues for clients who engage in conduct or activities with which they personally disagree," Corallo said.
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You are really one to talk.
BFD. I used to be a pro-choice militant, then I grew up.
This is the crux of the allegation:
Minutes of a Sept. 14, 1991, meeting of the association, cited by the newspaper, states: “Judy (DeSarno) reported that the Association had hired Fred Thompson, Esq., as counsel to aid us in discussions with the administration.” According to The Times, DeSarno said Thompson told her he discussed the abortion restriction with John Sununu, then chief of staff to Bush.
Mitt’s stance on the phony assualt weapons ban is enough for me to keep my distance.
Fred Thompson sure scares the lib media...
I don't hate the guy but I can't stand him. Along with every other CINO politician, he mocks my faith with his quicksand beliefs.
If it weren’t so pathetic it would be funny I just wonder what the Dems and leftists are AFRAID of ? Hehehehehe
However, all of this bashing going on between Thompson and Hunter supporters is counterproductive to the greater Conservative cause, and is only making enemies out of good folks who should be friends. We should all live and let live, when it comes to Hunter and Thompson, and once the primaries are over, unite behind whichever candidate is left standing, whether it is Hunter or Thompson. As for the other GOP candidates and their supporters, let them inherit the wind.
And yet, that garbage was pulled, yet my posts remain.
Go figure.
No one would criminalize young women in distress. But if that young woman kills her child then it should be a crime. I suppose, as soneone else mentioned, you could just fine the woman. But then you are just taxing the abortion it seems to me. Can you fathom fining a mother who kills her two-year-old? Or how about a mother who hires a hitman to kill her two-year-old?
I see no honest way to have it both ways.
Maybe the Mods think you are funny. I certainly do.
Pure BS. I've backed Fred since the morning he hinted at a run on FNSunday. Go ahead and look through my "In forum" comments, you'll have to look pretty hard to find any I've made about him. Same is true for a lot of Thompson backers, but you just keep on believing whatever nonsense it is you believe you're reading.
Funny how you mention "Fredheads" turning up on Hunter and Paul threads. I never pass up an opportunity to bash Giuliani. That's what this stage of the race is about, in case you haven't been following politics for long. It's all about separating the wheat from the chaff.
If true. He’s toast.
Nope,,,McLame is toast.
So you would just increase the cost of abortion and let the government take a cut? Do we fine people for hiring a hit man to kill someone?
I see what you are saying but it is no kind of solution and it reveals a belief that the child is not as valuable as other humans.
McLame is already toast. Not sure if he knows it yet.
Just like “megaphone” Sharpton, he’s hangin on for the matchin funds.
It was just resting
In case you haven’t noticed, McCain isn’t someone who gives up.
True. But I think conservatives have by and large given up on him. I did. In about 1999. He’s got his strong points, but too many weak ones. Immigration reform is the nail in his coffin.
That’s usually a transistion in the ages of 20 to 35. Not as an adult.
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