So Long Fred Thompson-Caught Using Private Jet Of Advisor With Criminal Record For Drug Dealing

[kpete]

So Long Fred! "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." (This is often the type of tip, by the way, that is leaked a to news outlet by a rival campaign. Take your pick.)
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/Thompson Adviser Has Criminal Past

By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 4, 2007; Page A01

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.

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/03/AR2007110301153.html?hpid=topnews

[Richard Steele]

1. Grrrecommended.

[msongs]

2. proves there's more than one way to get high nt

[onehandle]

3. Loser. nt

[Rockholm]

4. Adios, Dumbass.

[itsrobert]

5. Is it Rush's jet?

Any Hillbilly Heroin involved?

[tularetom]

6. Remember whose plane bush used in his 2000 campaign?

I do. It was Ken Lay for crissakes. And although Enron had not yet gone down the shitter, there was more than just a whiff of scandal surrounding them at that point. But it didn't seem to affect those who "wanted to have a beer" with the boy king.

If thompson was a Democrat, his carcass would now be slowly turning on the spit above a roaring fire of made up pundit outrage. Since he's a repub I don't even think this will raise eyebrows among the librul media.

Unfortunately.

[itsrobert]

7. From the link:

Martin, 49, is one of several top political fundraisers with a criminal past to gain access this year to a presidential contender. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton decided in September to return more than $800,000 raised by Norman Hsu, one of her top bundlers, after newspapers disclosed that he had been convicted of fraud and had an outstanding warrant for his arrest.

[babylonsister]

8. That title is worthy of a kick! Not Fred!! nt

[me b zola]

14. Well I'll kick him if you won't

:evilgrin:

[Mojorabbit]

9. Must have some

good connections to get off on that with probation....
"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."

[DefenseLawyer]

11. He flipped

That's how you get probation for conspiracy to deal in cocaine.

[Mojorabbit]

13. Ah so thats how he got off.

Thanks, it never occured to me.

[Atman]

10. Nah, it'll make the Republicans love him more.

"It shows he's human. Humans make mistakes. It's all behind him now, we should look to the future and not dwell on the past. As long as he's right with the Lord."

.

[Lint Head]

12. Bush could legalize pot and this would be a non-story.

He's known to break laws by writing his own. Maybe he could just add a little signing statement to a bill that says pot is legal to help his Re-Pubic-Rat friend Freddy boy. :dem:

[Blackhatjack]

15. Thompson hung on longer than I thought he would....

There is a lot of 'dirt' on Fred just waiting to be exposed.

If he had a real campaign manager rather than his wife playing that role, he might have been warned not to associate himself with an individual with a drug trafficking past.

Let's all watch how Fred talks himself out of this one.

[krispos42]

16. Explain's Thompson's lethargy...

Can we give him a pee test? Nobody actually has to handle his wang, they can just put on some rubber gloves and wring out his Depends into a beaker.

:evilgrin:

[sofa king]

17. It didn't hurt DeLay, Bush, or Hitler.

All three of them benefited from shadily procured air transportation, and faced no repercussions whatsoever.

[senseandsensibility]

18. So I assume Timmeh didn't ask him about this on

MTP this morning.:-(

[annabanana]

20. It never came up. .

Surprise, surprise...

[Infomaniac]

19. Nice Cover for Transporting Drugs

I'm just saying that if one was so inclined to engage in drug-trafficking, one way to avoid suspicion about your plane going all over the place would be to give it to a presidential candidate on a multi-state tour. Just thinking out loud here, Agent Mike.