THOMPSON ELIMINATES DRUG DEALING CRONY BUT SUSAN COLLINS STILL HASN'T RETURNED THE DRUG TAINTED CASH

Yesterday Frederick of Hollywood was stand-in' by his man come hell or high water. He didn't care how many kilos of drugs he had been busted for while accumulating his millions-- just as long as those millions kept flowing towards himself and other Republican enablers-- like Susan Collins, Zach Wamp. Elizabeth Dole, Lamar Alexander, etc. Philip Martin was known around the campaign as the "Chief of the Thompson Air Force" but, even more importantly he was chairman of Thompson's "First Day Founders" team of fundraisers, a shady bunch of wealthy right-wing favor seekers who have been pumping cash into Thompson's campaign coffers in the relentless quest to fulfill the young Mrs Thompson's drive to be First Minister Lady for her lazy, fun-loving, and distracted husband.

Yesterday Thompson said he wouldn't "throw my friend under the bus for something he did, you know, 25 years ago, if he's OK now." But barely 24 hours have passed and Mrs, Thompson has put her foot down and shoved the coke pusher off the bus-- if not under it. Thompson who once actually was a district attorney concerned, at least ostensibly, about upholding the law (not just someone who played, and will soon again play one on TV) didn't seen concerned that his close pal pleaded guilty to the sale of 11 pounds of marijuana in 1979, and then started a major cocaine trafficking operation 4 years later. He was arrested in a conspiracy stemming from a plan to sell $30,000 worth of coke and pleaded no contest. He's managed to spread around his ill-gotten gains to big-time Republican politicians-- like Thompson, Lamar Alexander, Zach Wamp, Elizabeth Dole and Susan Collins-- to keep himself out of prison. Think of all the non-millionaire, non-GOP-connected people rotting in prison for possessing a small amount of drugs while this freak was selling huge quantities-- and chauffeuring Thompson around in his privately owned jet, writing checks to Susan Collins and other shady Republican senators.

MSNBC reports that Thompson isn't using Martin's plane today. But Susan Collins still won't return the tainted drug money.

WHY WON'T SUSAN COLLINS GIVE BACK THE DRUG MONEY FUNNELED INTO HER CAMPAIGN BY A FRED THOMPSON CRONY?

While I was researching the connection between Susan Collins and Republican coke dealer Philip Martin, Maine's College Democrats had an upbeat, celebratory convention at Bowdoin, where everyone was pumped up at the prospects of replacing Bush Regime rubber stamp Collins with Tom Allen.

Unlike several Republican College and Young Republican conventions, no one was raped or sodomized. Instead people put their energy into positive tasks, like this inspiring video:



I'm still wondering, though, if Collins will disown her relationship to Philip Martin and return the cocaine money he donated to her political career. Tom Allen doesn't take money from multimillionaire cocaine pushers. So if you want to help out... we're open 24/7.

TOP THOMPSON FUNDRAISER IS A DRUG DEALER-- ALSO GAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS TO GOP CANDIDATES, FROM SUSAN COLLINS TO LAMAR ALEXANDER

So now we know why Sir Frederick dresses so... psychedelic

So Rudy Giuliani isn't the only Republican presidential hopeful who chose a big-time drug dealer for his campaign. According to tomorrow's Washington Post, Frederick of Hollywood "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." Philip Martin, the alleged "businessman" was in the same "business" as the head of Giuliani's South Carolina campaign, selling cocaine.

Martin 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.

This story is starting to sound very familiar-- and not just because of the cocaine. When Giuliani was confronted with Bernie Kerik's criminal past-- which court documents show he was clearly made aware of before he appointed Kerik to a string of jobs that proved very lucrative for both of them (and long before he tried getting Bush to appoint Kerik, despite his strong ties to the Mafia, to run the Dept. of Homeland Security-- he denied knowing anything (a blatant lie). Guess what Thompson says? Yep, he's reading right from the Giuliani playbook. Thompson claims he "was not aware of the multiple criminal cases" against the close friend who is known as "the head of 'Thompson's Airforce.'" The campaign says they didn't vet Martin because he was such a close personal friend of Sir Frederick's. Watch, in 2 weeks, they'll be claiming they never really knew each other.

Thompson'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.

I'll bet this doesn't get the kind of prolonged media attention the relatively innocuous Norman Hsu did for his Clinton donations even though "Martin has been more than just a key fundraiser to Thompson." Apparently there were tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of dollars in flights that have not been properly accounted for.

There have been rumors around Hollywood for years that aside from being a notorious woman-chaser, Thompson is also a big-time coke hound. That would certainly explain the closeness with Martin, who has also been in cahoots with a shady right-wing extremist Zach Wamp, now a Tennessee congressman. "Archived Florida court records provide details of the various cases against Martin, including alleged sports-betting activity, a cocaine deal he arranged with an undercover sheriff's deputy and carried out through a middleman, and the sale of 11 pounds of marijuana to an undercover detective for $3,400. Martin produced the marijuana from the trunk of his 1973 Cadillac as the two were parked behind a Tampa-area department store, according to the arrest report.

Records show that he has contributed at least $77,000 to Republican candidates, from John Ensign and Lamar Alexander to Elizabeth Dole, Susan Collins, and John McCain. None have said they would return the tainted drug money. And the pay-offs to these powerful Republican politicians have been excellent investments that have paid off handsomely for the former low level street dealer, no longer selling pounds of marijuana and cocaine out of his car's trunk, but accumulating millions and millions of dollars in wealth, wealth he has been happy to chair with powerful Republicans like Thompson, Wamp, Collins, Dole, etc.

Wow, these Republicans sure surround themselves with an unsavory bunch. I guess, to be fair, it isn't just Republicans. All the political insiders have the worst kind of scum around them. Nancy Pelosi was hanging around with Al Wynn today. And the Clintons are tight with Rahm Emanuel. There's way too much money floating around in the political system to trust politicians to look after get anywhere near it.


UPDATE: THOMPSON PLEADS IGNORANCE AND LOYALTY TO DRUG DEALER PAL

Yesterday Frederick of Hollywood said, basically, he doesn't care how many pounds of pot or how many kilos of cocaine his top financier has sold to children, friendship comes first. He's exactly like Giuliani. And Elizabeth Dole, Susan Collins, Zach Wamp, Lamar Alexander are the rest of the recipients of tens of thousands of dollars in tainted money, still refuse to return the drug profits.