Left Wing Group Files FEC Complaint Against Thompson

Ken McCracken • August 21, 2007

I’m thinking this complaint has more to do with Thompson not choosing to get into the Presidential race as drastically early as all the other candidates have. The candidates this year have started their official campaigns terribly early, and by holding back Thompson has kept certain advantages over them.
And, naturally, all those other candidates don’t like that. So they’re going after him. The Republicans aren’t going to do it to one of their own guys, but the Democrats aren’t above using one of their puppet groups to file a complaint.
Remember that during the 2004 campaign John Kerry, who went on to become the Democrats’ nominee, didn’t officially announce his candidacy until September 2nd, 2003, after announcing it in December 2002. That’s actually a longer exploratory timeline than Fred Thompson has run (he didn’t really get started until March), yet nobody on the left seems concerned about that tid-bit of information.

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http://Array Adam B.

Thanks for playing, but no: Kerry’s declaration in December 2002 was a for a full candidate commitee, and he filed all his subsequent FEC disclosure reports accordingly. The September 2003 speech had no legal effect.
http://fredthompsonfaq.com/ Sturm Ruger

Don’t forget that one of Team Thompson’s first hires was Michael Toner, a former chairman of the FEC.

Toner has been advising the testing-the-waters organization on precisely what it can and cannot legally do.
http://www.draftfredthompson.com/ Robyn

Okay, so let’s go with this years crop of candidates. Mr. Giuliani’s “testing the waters” or “exploratory” committee began in Nov. 2006 and announced his candidacy Feb. 2007. Fred Thompson began his “testing the waters” or “exploratory” committee June 2007 and is expected to announce his candidacy the beginning of Sept. 2007. Looks like approximately the same amount of time…
Will

Come on now! Nobody can expect the dems to hold themselves to the same standard that they hold republicans too. That would be silly because dems already know that they can’t come close to measuring up to a republican.

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