Will Thompson Remember Charging Abortion Rights Group Thousands To Lobby For Them?

Maybe the billing records will magically spur his memory?

Billing records show that former Senator Fred Thompson spent nearly 20 hours working as a lobbyist on behalf of a group seeking to ease restrictive federal rules on abortion counseling in the 1990s, even though he recently said he did not recall doing any work for the organization. [...] His representation of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, which was trying to overturn the ban on abortion counseling, put him at odds with the anti-abortion movement, which considered the ban a crucial victory.

Faced with the facts, here's the new spin: If "a client has a legal and ethical right to take a position, then you may appropriately represent him as long as he does not lie or otherwise conduct himself improperly while you are representing him," lobbyist Thompson wrote at a GOP blog. Apparently that includes Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a proponent of the "gruesome practice of execution where gasoline-soaked tires are thrown over a person's neck and set ablaze."

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