Actor Fred Thompson, publisher Steve Forbes Raise Money for Libby

[Chimichurri]

News of Libby's guilty verdict has brought in $70,000 in Internet contributions in a week. Wealthy supporters including actor Fred Thompson, publisher Steve Forbes and Wayne Berman, a Washington lobbyist and leading Bush donor, plan to raise much more. Thompson, a former Tennessee senator who's weighing a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, is hosting a Washington fundraiser that may bring in more than $100,000.
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The Libby fund's advisory committee includes Forbes, Berman, Frederic Malek, chairman of Thayer Capital Partners in Washington and lobbyist Bill Paxon, a former House member from New York.

Other participants are Martin Peretz, former owner of the New Republic magazine; former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp; and R. James Woolsey, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton in McLean, Virginia, and a director of central intelligence under President Bill Clinton.

Star Power

Thompson, working closely with Mary Matalin, a former political strategist for Cheney, has taken the early lead in organizing events on Libby's behalf.

Last year, Thompson hosted a Washington fundraiser that collected more than $100,000 and a second dinner or cocktail reception is being planned in the city.

``I will continue to help and remain committed to working with the defense fund to raise money to restore Scooter's good name,'' Thompson said in an e-mail.

Barbara Comstock, a Washington public-relations specialist who is assisting Libby, said several large pledges have come in from donors whom she declined to name. The fund isn't required to disclose contributors because Libby is no longer a public official.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a6pOCXuKWZSo&refer=home

[waiting for hope]

1. Damn....

Wouldn't it be nice if all convicted felons could get money raised for them to pay for their legal fees and help assist their families? :crazy:

Another reason not to trust Carville:

Thompson, working closely with Mary Matalin, a former political strategist for Cheney...

[TwilightGardener]

2. What schmucks. Go do something USEFUL with your money--

donate to Fisher House, or St. Jude's Hospital. Fuckers.

[Kolesar]

3. Scooter should just shut up and take a slug for Shooter

Stalk off to your executive camp-cupcake with your TV and your conjugal visits, if you know what is good for you, you dumbass republ'an. Your appeals are just keeping your sordid tale in the news for the Democrats will pummel your former boss and the nefarious Turd Blossom*. Am I making sense?

*Karl Rove

[Zenlitened]

4. And Thompson is being talked about as presidential material?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Way to hang the Cheney Crime Syndicate around your neck, Freddie!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[mmonk]

5. Thanks for the reminder

http://www.wilsonsupport.org/