Bizarre, indeed! Fred “The Mole” Thompson is trying to deny that he did lobbying work for a family planning group.
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning for president as a “pro-life” Republican, accepted a lobbying assignment from a family-planning group to persuade the first Bush White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according to a 1991 document and five people familiar with the matter.
A spokesman for the former senator denied that Thompson did the lobbying work. But minutes of a 1991 board meeting of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Assn. show that the group hired Thompson that year.
[...]Thompson 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.
Those are some pretty strong words, which apparently are necessary when an underground-burrowing-pretender is courting the anti-abortionists. However:
Minutes of the board’s meeting of Sept. 14, 1991, a copy of which DeSarno gave to The Times, say: “Judy [DeSarno] reported that the Association had hired Fred Thompson, Esq., as counsel to aid us in discussions with the Administration” on the abortion-counseling rule.
Former Rep. Michael Barnes of Maryland, a colleague at the lobbying and law firm where Thompson worked, said DeSarno had asked him to recommend someone for the lobbying work, and that he had suggested that she hire Thompson. He said it was “absolutely bizarre” for Thompson to deny that he lobbied against the abortion counseling rule.
“I talked to him while he was doing it, and I talked to [DeSarno] about the fact that she was very pleased with the work that he was doing for her organization,” said Barnes, a Democrat. “I have strong, total recollection of that. This is not something I dreamed up or she dreamed up. This is fact.”
See, I believe this is one reason why “The Mole” continually tried to hide his lobbying career, and now that the progressives have made such a big deal about the fact “The Mole” did work as a lobbyist, the dirty little secrets are coming out. The Mole worked for his god — MONEY. Principles? Nope, sorry, not when he’s working for money, oooops, the green-god.
And, here’s a gem of a quote:
In response to Sununu’s denial, DeSarno said Thompson “owes NFPRHA a bunch of money” if he never talked to him, as he said he had.
I’m sure you’re all wondering, “Why would a repug be lobbying for a family planning group?”
“We were looking, of course, for a Republican who might have some inroads to the White House at that time, and so that’s how she came upon contacting him,” said Susan Cohen, a member of the association’s board of directors in 1991.
How you gonna spin this one, Mole?
Gee, I can’t wait til he actually announces so the real dirt will emerge. Heh. Or maybe he never will.
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Egalia, I also noticed last night that (via C&L) Cliff’s campaign looks like it worked to ended Fred’s job at ABC.
These two LAT & NYT hit pieces come on the heels of Keith-O’s
“Nixon’s Mole” charge and of course, Joe Skankborough’s idiotic remark
about “working the pole.” Thompson isn’t going to drag his wife and
mother of his daughter into the mosh-pit skanks like Elizabeth Edwards
like to slosh around in.
Mike Rowe should take a stint as a DNC fecal-snuffer nosing through
the garbage heaps of slander and innuendo—beats most of the Dirty Jobs
he’s done on his Discovery show!
Fred Thompson reeks integrity, and Clinton Inc has a thousand
skeletons buried, in closets, & in plain sight. Can you imagine the
shrieks & twittering if B. Hussein Obama gets a closer look in his
childhood madrasa in Indonesia?
Not to mention Hair-and-Makeup candidate Mr.Elizabeth Edwards.
this shows us just how far the “need-a-republican-savior-people” will gloss over Fred — denying any flip-flopping or contradictions in what Fred has done and what Fred says!
My god, the only thing I see right in this diatribe is that Fred reeks. But that isn’t integrity you smell. That smell is a man that impregnated his girlfriend in highschool and then left her for a child, who made millions from corporations wanting to hurt the little guy (savins & loan Crisis ring a bell? limits on asbestos claims), etc. Integrity? More like out-for-himself.
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