Thursday, March 24, 2011

Virginia Thomas Increases Financial Ties to Right Wing Organizations

I have addressed the inappropriate activities of Virginia Thomas - wife of the (in my view) ethically challenger Justice Clarence Thomas - on several occasions. Now, Virginia Thomas has taken a job at The Daily Caller as a "reporter." It's yet another vehicle by which Thomas and her husband become more and more clamped to the teet of right wing organizations. A Google search suggests that Thomas makes in the neighbor hood of $213,00 a year. With his wife pulling at least that much - or likely more - from right wing organizations, is it even a credible argument that Justice Thomas can remain unbiased and objective on issues being championed those who by his wife's (and his) meal ticket? Frankly, Thomas has always been a lousy justice and now with his compromised objectivity it is time either (1) for him to resign from the Supreme Court, or (2) for Virginia Thomas to retire from far right politics and return to the hearth and home. They cannot have it both ways. Here are highlights from Talking Points Memo:
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Ginni Thomas, the tea party leader, health care reform foe, and controversial wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, will join The Daily Caller as a reporter.
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She's no stranger to the Caller either -- it's where she took refuge when her most recent scandal aired out in the press. In 2010, it was revealed that she'd telephoned Anita Hill -- the woman who accused her husband of sexual harassment during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing back in 1991 -- to ask for an apology. Shortly after that episode was publicized, she stepped down from her job as head of the organization Liberty Central, which boasts of assisting grassroots clients with governmental affairs, but isn't a registered lobbying firm.
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After leaving Liberty Central, Thomas set up Liberty Consulting, which billed itself as an advocacy firm, but there were no records of Thomas having registered as a lobbyist. The website for Liberty Consulting was down as of Tuesday morning. She was also touting herself as an "ambassador" to the incoming Republican freshman class. To escape the media storm, Thomas took shelter at the Caller.

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