Posted on 11/03/2007 7:46:24 PM PDT by RDTF
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has been crisscrossing the country since early this summer on a private jet lent to him by a businessman and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing.
Thompson selected the businessman, Philip Martin, to raise seed money for his White House bid. Martin is one of four campaign co-chairmen and the head of a group called the "first day founders." Campaign aides jokingly began to refer to Martin, who has been friends with Thompson since the early 1990s, as the head of "Thompson's Airforce."
Thompson's frequent flights aboard Martin's twin-engine Cessna 560 Citation have saved him more than $100,000, because until the law changed in September, campaign-finance rules allowed presidential candidates to reimburse private jet owners for just a fraction of the true cost.
Martin entered a plea of guilty to the sale of 11 pounds of marijuana in 1979; the court withheld judgment pending completion of his probation. He was charged in 1983 with violating his probation and with multiple counts of felony bookmaking, cocaine trafficking and conspiracy. He pleaded no contest to the cocaine-trafficking and conspiracy charges, which stemmed from a plan to sell $30,000 worth of the drug, and was continued on probation.
Thompson's campaign said the candidate was not aware of the multiple criminal cases, for which Martin served no jail time. All are described in public court records.
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...yeah and Sandy Berger’s just a paper collector
So are you saying he is a Democrat?
Matthew Mosk knows all about Paul v Clinton. He won’t write about it.
check this crap out
1979? Nearly thirty years ago?
I don’t care what somebody did 30 years ago.
I guess digging up 25+ year old dirt is more his style
Moral equivalence to cover Hillary’s Hsu problem when Fred starts to go after her.
Some of these guys are smarter than we give them credit for, since they’re well aware that Thompson will be the nominee in spite of all the noise and idiots predicting otherwise.
(I know others have already weighed in on the differences in criminal conviction, completion of sentence and future civic participation; I'm not referring to you.)
Here we go again, indeed. If only the Washington Post would spend one-onehundreth of the time they spend on Republicans, and guilt by association, on Mrs. Clinton and he Chinese friends. And there are photographs too, and jail time.
I won’t bother to read the article. Any mention of how old Martin was when he was put on probation for selling pot and coke to Roger Clinton?
Matthew Mosk was the MD4Bush Reporter. He sleeps in Clinton’s
panties.
Which Clinton’s panties?
Whichever one’s day it is to wear them.
Then: flying high.
Now: high flying.
Washington ComPost coverage of Bill Clinton’s connections with Arkansa drug dealers was 0% IIRC.
Dont forget sKerry.
“1979? Nearly thirty years ago?
I don’t care what somebody did 30 years ago.”
Wasn’t that the year Bill Clinton raped Juanita Brodderick?
24 years ago. It's a problem, and I hope Fred addresses it pronto and decisively.
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