Sununu Grows Testy When Asked If Thompson Lobbied for Abortion Rights

[babylonsister]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/07/sununu-thompson.html

Sununu Grows Testy When Asked If Thompson Lobbied for Abortion Rights


July 09, 2007 6:56 PM

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Speaking to ABC News on Monday, former White House chief of staff John Sununu re-issued his denial that former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., lobbied him in 1991 on behalf of a group that supports abortion rights and he grew angry when asked if the all-but-announced Republican presidential candidate had met with a member of his staff.

"He never met with me," said Sununu. "I have absolutely no recollection of Fred Thompson coming in to see me, I don't think it ever happened, and he never lobbied me on that issue."

Asked if it was possible whether Thompson met with someone on his staff to lobby the first Bush White House to relax a controversial abortion restriction, the famously prickly Sununu flew off the handle.

"You know, with all due respect, may I comment on that? That's the kind of dumb question that makes you wonder what's wrong with the press. How do you get a job working for ABC asking a question like that? Did he meet with someone on my staff? Did he meet with someone in the street?" asked an incredulous Sununu.

Asked if he was suggesting that the abortion-rights group which claims to have used Thompson's services had fabricated minutes from a Sept. 14, 1991 board meeting in order to undermine Thompson’s standing among conservatives, Sununu said, "I wouldn't put anything past that group."

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[jsamuel]

1. Turned it around and rufused to answer the question.

He is SOOOO lying.

[spanone]

2. Seems like a pretty good question to me, mr sunununununununu

repubs have the worse freakin' memories in the world.

[msongs]

3. the appropriate response from the reporter is "well, DID HE?".....

but I bet the reporter backed off....

then again, he may not be a part of the poodles in the washington press corpse ( yes, I know it should be corp, but they are so dead they might as well be called corpses).

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[C_U_L8R]

4. Protest too much ???

Typical repuke MO.
He's lying.

[zbdent]

5. Ah, yes ... "I don't recall" ...

[EST]

6. Actually what happened, most likely,

is that Thompson took the money and made up some glowing reports, without bothering to talk to Sununu, knowing Sununu would never move off the dime and that the group he was representing would never have the opportunity to talk directly to him.

In other words, he (Thompson) committed fraud and was pretty sure of getting away with it until he unwisely stuck his oar into the presidential pool. Oooooops!

[ProgressiveEconomist]

7. How does 'Thompson spokesman Corallo' know 'there's no documents to prove it'?

Have all law-firm, banking, and Planned Parenthood records been checked thoroughly already?

Or did Corallo identify and destroy potentially embarrassing records himself, as Harriet Myers did for gubernatorial candidate Dubya in the 90s?

From http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-thompson7jul07,0,92408,print.story (linked in the URL from the original post):

'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."'