Monday, June 25, 2007

Inside Outsider

Looking at Thompson's Lobbying Past - The Huffington Post: "NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican Fred Thompson, who likes to cast himself in the role of Washington outsider, has a long history as a political insider who earned more than $1 million lobbying the federal government.

As a lobbyist for more than 20 years, billion-dollar corporations paid Thompson for his access to members of Congress and White House staff. During that time he was close to two Senate majority leaders, both from his home state of Tennessee _ his political mentor Howard Baker and, more recently, his former colleague Bill Frist..."

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