Philip Martin quits after criminal record surfaces; owns firm that operates terminal at Gulf Shores' Jack Edwards Airport
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Staff, wire reports
Staff, wire reports
After reports surfaced of his decades-old drug-dealing record, an Ono Island man whose company manages some operations at Gulf Shores' Jack Edwards Airport resigned as co-chairman of Republican Fred Thompson's presidential campaign.
Philip J. Martin, who lives in an 8,060-square-foot Ono Island mansion and owns the Gulf Shores airport's terminal operator, Jet Center South, through his company Gulf Capital Holdings, had acted as a fundraiser and adviser to the former Tennessee senator since the start of his presidential run.
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