Will Thompson Remember Charging Abortion Rights Group Thousands To Lobby For Them?
Posted by Mike Gehrke on July 19, 2007 at 10:48 AM
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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