Fred Thompson Lobbied For Abortion Rights-He Says No Recollection Of Lobbying To Ease Abortion Rules

[Kadie]

Thompson Lobbied For Abortion Rights
Thompson Says No Recollection Of Lobbying To Ease Abortion Rules Despite Newspaper Report

WASHINGTON, Jul. 6, 2007
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(AP) 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."

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/06/ap/politics/main3026529.shtml

[PDittie]

1. Kiss of death for a conservative

The Pukes are nominating Rudy anyway.

[zabet]

2. Fred is a quick learner. It worked for Gonzo. n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Yeah, he just proved he has what it takes to govern the RepubliCON way.

Selective amnesia.

[DemGa]

4. Repugs get good mileage from "I don't recall" n/t

[HughMoran]

5. Looks like Fred is getting his intro to the race even before announcing

The folks who stated he would be most popular on the day he announces may have been premature. He may be on the way down already!

[TwilightGardener]

6. Old Fred will adopt any position and fight for any cause, as long as

someone's paying him in some form or another. He's as unprincipled/flip-floppy as Mittens. Maybe more, since Mittens at least wasn't a spy for Nixon.

[iamjoy]

7. The More We Learn About Thompson

the less "perfect" he seems.

I fear the same for Al Gore. He is utterly lionized by many Democratic and Liberal activists as our only hope. But I am sure that if Gore did decide to run we would rip him to shreds.

[Bitwit1234]

8. Do need more people to run the country that "can't remember"

hell if they can't remember something that happened how in the world would they run a country.