{"id":3747,"date":"2007-11-04T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/thompson-adviser-was-a-drug-de.html"},"modified":"2007-11-04T07:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T07:12:00","slug":"thompson-adviser-was-a-drug-de","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/11\/thompson-adviser-was-a-drug-de.html","title":{"rendered":"Thompson Adviser was a Drug Dealer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, look another hit piece by the Washington Post<\/a>. Yeah, the media isn’t biased, I’m sure we’ll see a hit piece on Clinton any day now.<\/p>\n

Republican presidential candidate Fred D. 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.
\nThompson 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.”
\nThompson’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 of flights.
\nMartin 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.
\nThompson’s campaign said the candidate was not aware of the multiple criminal cases, for which Martin served no jail time. All are described in public court records.
\nKaren Hanretty, Thompson’s deputy communications director, said yesterday that “Senator Thompson was unaware of the information until this afternoon. Phil Martin has been a friend of the senator since the mid-1990s and remains so today.” Thompson communications director Todd Harris added that Martin was not subjected to the campaign’s standard vetting process because “he’s a longtime friend.”
\n“There’s not a campaign in the world that has the ability to research every one of its supporters going back more than 20 years,” Harris said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, where’s the research behind the advisers in the other camps? I’m sure we’ll find plenty of dirt if we look long enough.
\nUpdate:<\/span> Thompson responds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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