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Former Sen. Fred Thompson has taken his first step toward organizing a campaign for Iowa's leadoff presidential nominating caucuses by hiring a top Iowa Republican campaign staff member, aides to Thompson confirmed Monday.
Thompson has signed Andrew Dorr to serve as his Midwest political director should the actor and Tennessee Republican run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
Full article HERE
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
DesMoines Register: Hire puts run closer for Fred Thompson
NY Times: Fred Thompson Makes the Rounds
By Susan Saulny
Although he has not officially declared his presidential intentions, Fred D. Thompson, former senator of Tennessee, kicks off what looks a lot like a campaign in Nashville today, with stops this week in South Carolina and New Hampshire.
In those critical early primary states, Mr. Thompson will be meeting with Republican party officials and supporters, and raising money, mostly behind closed doors. While he has yet to announce his bid for the Republican nomination formally – and is expected to do so soon _ he’s already set up a committee for donors, called the First Founders.
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Webpronews.com: Fred Thompson Gets All The Media
Submitted by David A. Utter on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 09:31
Potential Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson has a website that should be a model for anyone aspiring to political office.
Well over a year remains before the 2008 Presidential election takes place. Candidates like Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, and John McCain have been staking out spots online, with the aid of their campaign machines, in the hopes of engaging voters.
At this early date, money remains the first, second, third, and probably twenty-fourth most significant concern for White House aspirants. The Thompson website, I'm With Fred, features links to donate and raise funds should the actor/Senator pursue a bid for the Presidency, just as the other candidates do...
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The Tennessean: Donut Den offers muffins for Fred Thompson
By Danica Wright Booth
Donut Den has an offer Fred Thompson may not be able to refuse.
The Green Hills eatery has posted a sign to offer the actor turned potential presidential candidate a free blueberry muffin if he announces his presidency.
“He used to be our regular customer,” said Donut Den owner, Dr. Norman Fox, “and that was what he’d eat.”
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CNN.com: Fred Thompson has history as political insider
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.
During Baker's tenure, Thompson lobbied for a savings-and-loan deregulation bill that helped hasten the industry's collapse and a failed nuclear energy project that cost taxpayers more than a billion dollars.
More recently, while Frist led the Senate, Thompson earned more than $750,000 lobbying for a British reinsurance company that wanted to limit its liability from asbestos lawsuits.
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Letter: As president, Thompson would show backbone
Monday, June 25, 2007
BillingsGazette.com
The time is now for all conservatives to wake up from their slumber and act!
We have sat on our hands the last 20 or 30 years and assumed our elected representatives and leaders have been "minding the store" as we saw fit. But it seems our elected officials have softened their stance on conservative values ... partly because of our lack of support and involvement and partly due to all the socialist influences and lobbyist pressures and a lack of a leader at the top with a stiff backbone.
Now is our chance to save this great country from terrorism, illegal immigration, full-blown socialism, individual irresponsibility, illegal drugs, and foreign and Hollywood corruption. Now is our chance to turn the corner for a country headed down the road to ruin.
Fred Thompson is a strong, no-nonsense, focused, fearless man who has the grit and backbone to stand up to all the influences that would see America die. The 2008 election will likely determine whether America remains the greatest country on earth or sinks into the sewer of socialism.
Thompson is waiting for your response. Get up and get active and show him we care and that we are not ready to let America die. Work for and vote for Thompson for president - 2008!
Randy Gerhardt
Billings
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Thompson Rally in Nashville: Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Tomorrow night (June 26th) there will be a rally in Nashville that will be attended by Mr. Thompson himself. If you are available please drop by and say hello to the future President of the United States.
Here are the details.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
9:15AM
Mercury Air Center, Nashville International Airport
635 Hangar Lane, Nashville TN 37217
Donuts & Coffee provided, along with the chance to meet Fred!
Directions:
From I-40
take Donelson Pike, Exit 216, toward the Airport (south)
Then right onto Hangar Lane - then stay to the right at the fork
Mercury Air Center, Nashville International Airport
635 Hangar Lane, Nashville TN 37217
Republican Thompson endorsed by ex-girlfriends
By Steve Holland
Reuters
Monday, June 25, 2007; 6:46 PM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Things must be going well for prospective presidential candidate Fred Thompson because even his ex-wife and former girlfriends are endorsing him.
One-by-one they've said the Tennessee Republican is their man -- at least for president, according to London's Sunday Times newspaper.
The former senator and Hollywood actor is to hold the first fund-raising event for his potential campaign on Tuesday in Nashville, ahead of stops in early primary states of South Carolina and New Hampshire this week.
An announcement on a Thompson candidacy is expected some time in July. "He's making up his mind as to when's the best time," said spokesman Mark Corallo.
Thompson, 64, dated for a long time after his 26-year marriage to his first wife, Sarah Knestrick, ended in 1984. In 2002 he married Jeri Kehn, who is 24 years younger than he.
Read the whole article HERE
Dems Aim For Fred Thompson
Origin: "The Stump: AOL's News Election Blog"
Published: June 25, 2007 4:47 PM
Title: Dems Aim For Fred Thompson
The appeal of Fred Thompson as a candidate will be huge and the Democrats know it. They've launched a pre-announcement salvo at Thompson's non-campaign campaign:
Democratic strategists say Thompson's populist style and show-biz allure could prove extremely appealing in a general election at a time when voters are so down on Washington. So the party has launched a preemptive campaign against him that includes a DNC fundraising e-mail branding Thompson, "The inside-outsider."The gist of the Dem attack will be that Thompson is an insider when he portrays himself as an outsider. They also are hitting him for his lack of legislation pushed through when he was a Senator from Tennessee.
Full article HERE
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