tehran tom's former law firm gibson, dunn and crutcher has strong gop ties (soooo surprised!)
(thanks to starroute for this information)
18. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has strong GOP associations
I checked my files on them when they were representing Christie in the George Washington Bridge scandal and questions were raised about a possible conflict of interest.
Beyond that, however, what Cotton's series of jobs suggests to me is that he may have been being groomed right out of law school for a leading role in right-wing politics. In that case, the jumps from clerking to one law firm to another and then to the infantry would have been a carefully arranged agenda to position him to become what he is now -- the youngest member of the Senate at the age of 37 and a rising GOP star.
This is not a conspiracy theory. It's simply what the right does. They have the funds and the high-level connections to advance their own people at an age when young liberals are still struggling to earn a living and repay their student loans. You can see it in the case of James O'Keefe and his pals, who were alumni of the network of well-funded right-wing campus newspapers and were then subsidized in making their smear videos against the left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson,_Dunn_%26_Crutcher
The firm's best-known attorneys and alumni include former United States Solicitors General Theodore Olson and Ken Starr, Eugene Scalia, and Miguel Estrada. . . .
The firm is representing Chevron in its long-running, $27 billion environmental dispute in Ecuador. ... The firm is defending Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. in the landmark $11 billion employment discrimination class action Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... The firm is representing the Dole Food Company in a multi-billion dollar toxic tort suit in Nicaragua involving allegations of farmworker sterility stemming from Dole's use of certain pesticides. ... Current partner Theodore Olson served as lead counsel for George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore, which secured Bush's election as President of the United States.
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