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  • Thompson PAC Benefits Son More Than Republicans

    04/21/2007 1:25:21 PM PDT · by shrinkermd · 218 replies · 5,786+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 21 April 2007 | BRODY MULLINS
    Management Fees Exceed Political Donations From Tennessee Presidential Hopeful's Account In the five years since Republican Fred Thompson left the Senate, he has maintained his political fund-raising account -- and it has paid more money to his son than it has contributed to help elect Republicans to Congress, records show. Mr. Thompson, of Tennessee, announced that he would not seek re-election to the Senate in 2002. But since then, his political action committee has paid $244,000 in "management/consulting fees" to his son's consulting firm in Nashville, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. During the same period, the...