Posted on 07/07/2007 5:04:11 AM PDT by kellynla
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.
Quick response time by Fred. We need more of that with Republicans, that is for sure.
Hillary’s people are behind this story about Fred:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1862148/posts
you needed to mention in your title for this post: drive-by alert.
you needed to mention in your title for this post: drive-by alert.
that’s why you are here! LOL
I can’t think of everything...after all it is Saturday and 5 a.m. here.
i’m just curious, do most americans realise that this is stuff are assasanation attempts by the media? (of the political kind). Does the MSM have much credibility amongst americans?
I’ve read on a different website, that this smear was caused by the Clinton team in advance to Thompson’s entry into the race. Hitjobs such as this can always be traced back to whom it was given to advance. Typical of the Clinton team. Besides, I heard on Hannity’s where Bob Beckel stated clearly that the only thing dems are afraid of was an entry of Fred Thompson.
only the ones who don’t know better.
The ten percent like FReepers who actually take the time to read, investigate, research and listen to talk radio give the LSM about as much credibility as a screen door on a submarine.
Unfortunately, it takes more than ten percent to win elections! Which is why we have such a preponderance of incompetent buffoons in public office! Thank God for elections & recalls.
Fred’s wife will be the focus, unfortunately.
It will backfire on them. When he defends his wife, he will gain that many more votes.
Mrs. Arkansas Antichrist can never remember any of her own many crimes.
This a hit piece on Thompson put out by the Hillary machine! Give it the due consideration that it deserves...which is none!
Wife? I thought that was his daughter!
But every thing that is negative about Fred Thompson is just a smear.
Voted NO on allowing reimportation of Rx drugs from Canada? Smear!
Voted YES on limiting self-employment health deduction. SMEAR!
Voted NO on medical savings acounts. SMEAR!
Video documenting past support for abortion? SMEAR!
Lobbyist for clients like Toyota and Jean-Paul Aristide? A DAMN SMEAR!
First past-the-post backer of RINOs supreme Lamar Alexander and John McCain? SMEARARAMA!
Voted for minimum wage increasse? SMEARTASTIC!
Voted yes on funding the NEA? SMEARAJAMARAMA!
McCain-Feingold point man? SMEARALICIOUS!
It’s just so...so...AWFUL...that a proven, doctrinaire, constitutionalist, conservative like Fred can be SMEARED like this!
You’ve been had. Good luck with that. LOL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1862148/posts
P.S. Ron Paul will NEVER be President of the United States.
He has the best looking wife and won't be afraid to drop bombs on the ragheads.
Works for me.
So if they are lying about that, what do you think the odds are that they are lying about the whole thing? The whole TANG fiasco with Presidnet Bush shows the left is very willing to manufacture documents to support their claims.
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