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Thompson Adviser Has Criminal Past (here we go)
The Washington Post ^ | Nov 3, 2007 | Matthew Mosk

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fredthompson; philipmartin
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To: RDTF

Yawn...


21 posted on 11/03/2007 8:02:23 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Real voters in real voting booths will elect FDT.)
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To: SandyInSeattle
I don’t care what somebody did 30 years ago.

Charles Manson?

22 posted on 11/03/2007 8:02:57 PM PDT by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters!)
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To: SandyInSeattle
I don’t care what somebody did 30 years ago.

What they did 30 years ago prevented both Ted kennedy and John Kerry from winning the White House.

23 posted on 11/03/2007 8:04:47 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
Moral equivalence to cover Hillary’s Hsu problem when Fred starts to go after her.

Good point, but the deals with Hsu, are a LOT more recent than those of Fred's friend.

24 posted on 11/03/2007 8:04:52 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: SandyInSeattle

John Kerry served in Vietnam!


25 posted on 11/03/2007 8:05:56 PM PDT by Carling (It's Danny, Sir)
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To: aruanan

What about Hillary’s Sandy?

And that crook that Obama is involved with?

And Rudy and his defrocked pedophile employee?

And Mitt with his criminial supporters?

The WP fears Fred.

I would bet that the Romney campaign is behind the leak to the WP.


26 posted on 11/03/2007 8:06:25 PM PDT by JRochelle (Rudy employs a pedophile, Alan Placa.)
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To: Lancey Howard

“24 years ago. It’s a problem, and I hope Fred addresses it pronto and decisively.”

Why couldn’t he have found out about this before he became associated with the guy?


27 posted on 11/03/2007 8:08:29 PM PDT by dsc (There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. Edmund Burke)
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To: SuziQ

It’s just for a quick ‘gotcha’. A talking point for the braindead libs to use when backed into a corner over Hsu.

This kind of thing won’t work with Fred. He just dismisses it and explains things rationally, slowly, and clearly so everyone can understand it.


28 posted on 11/03/2007 8:10:20 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (John Cox 2008: Because Duncan Hunter just isn't obscure enough for me!)
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To: SandyInSeattle
I don’t care what somebody did 30 years ago.

They feel that way in Massachusetts about Ted Kennedy too, he murdered an innocent by his own negligence and still cruises away.

29 posted on 11/03/2007 8:10:40 PM PDT by quantim (The U.S. 110th Congress is the first duly elected 'Politburo' of the new millennium.)
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To: South40

Yes...but to be honest...those were things they, themselves did.

Fred probably didn’t even KNOW this guy 20 years ago.


30 posted on 11/03/2007 8:12:18 PM PDT by RockinRight (The Council on Illuminated Foreign Masons told me to watch you from my black helicopter.)
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To: quantim

And you feel that there is some sort of equivalence here between Ted Kennedy murdering a woman and an associate of Fred Thompson’s being a drug dealer 30 years ago?


31 posted on 11/03/2007 8:12:24 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (John Cox 2008: Because Duncan Hunter just isn't obscure enough for me!)
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To: quantim; South40

Did you read the article? This is not Fred, it’s an associate.


32 posted on 11/03/2007 8:13:18 PM PDT by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
since they’re well aware that Thompson will be the nominee in spite of all the noise and idiots predicting otherwise.

Well here's one "idiot" who says Romney is going to be the nominee, not Thompson. Although if Thompson IS the nominee, I will certainly vote for him. I'm not a fair weather Republican who will stay home or vote 3rd party if the candidate doesn't agree with me 100 percent, thus insuring a win for the Hildabeast.
33 posted on 11/03/2007 8:14:43 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: RDTF

It doesn’t matter to people with an agenda.


34 posted on 11/03/2007 8:14:58 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (John Cox 2008: Because Duncan Hunter just isn't obscure enough for me!)
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To: RDTF
"court withheld judgement"

If there was no conviction, what is the problem?

35 posted on 11/03/2007 8:17:47 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Bobkk47

Well, admitting your idiocy is the first step.

If you’ll vote for anyone with an R next to their name, you should refrain from voting in the primary and leave it to those of us with some principles to decide the nominee. That way, we’re sure to not end up with a flip-flopping, medicine socializing, abortion supporting, candidate like Slick Willard.


36 posted on 11/03/2007 8:18:52 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (John Cox 2008: Because Duncan Hunter just isn't obscure enough for me!)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

The guy needs to leave the campaign and be done with it.

This isn’t a big deal.

I’ll wager it was the Romney’s oppo research that tipped off the Post.


37 posted on 11/03/2007 8:20:45 PM PDT by JRochelle (Rudy employs a pedophile, Alan Placa.)
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To: RDTF

This has got the beast’s claw marks all over it. The War Room is up and running 24/7. Like the song says, “We’ve only just begun.”


38 posted on 11/03/2007 8:21:13 PM PDT by Roccus (Someday it'll all make sense.....maybe.)
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To: RDTF

Egads! 1979? Sheesh! Clintoon smoked but didn’t inhale. Right! (sarc)


39 posted on 11/03/2007 8:21:19 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: doug from upland
Matthew Mosk knows all about Paul v Clinton. He won’t write about it.

He probably wants to live. JMHO.

40 posted on 11/03/2007 8:22:20 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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