The Auction Blog
Written Out
BY Josh Israel | January 22, 2008
Republican Fred Thompson withdraws from the 2008 presidential campaign, saying, “I hope that my country and my party have benefited from our having made this effort.”
Keep Talking
BY Caitlin Ginley | January 11, 2008
More than $200,000 poured into Republican Fred Thompson’s campaign after his performance in the South Carolina debate, The Politico, a Washington-based political newspaper, reports.
Jingle Jangle Jingle
BY Josh Israel | December 12, 2007
Republican Fred Thompson wants you to brighten his holiday season — by underwriting “Fred’s 12 Days of Christmas,” all the way down to “Twelve Yard Signs Posted: $35.”
A Loaded Lot
BY Josh Israel | December 10, 2007
The seven front-runners in the 2008 presidential race — Democrats Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama, and Republicans Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson — “all have assets that would place them in the nation’s top 10 percent of households, and most of them in the top 0.5 percent,” Money magazine reports. Romney leads the pack with assets of $92.3 million to $276.2 million, plus three homes valued at $18.7 million.
The State Better Left Unmentioned
BY Josh Israel | November 20, 2007
Republican Fred Thompson is urging his supporters to help him buy television ads in Iowa and South Carolina, the Los Angeles Times reports, but not in New Hampshire, where he’s crashing in the polls.



