NO MARTHA, HE:

Frist Sale of Stock Launched in April: Senator and Advisers Discussed It in E-Mail (Carrie Johnson, October 1, 2005, Washington Post)

Private e-mail between Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and his advisers reflects that Frist began discussing the sale of his HCA Inc. stock in April, months before it became clear that the hospital firm's shares would decline in value, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

An April 29 message from G. Allen Hicks, chief counsel to the majority leader, informs the senator that they can discuss his "blind trust question sometime today." Frist also exchanged e-mail with his accountant, Deborah Kolarich, in Nashville, the same day in what he called an effort to "dispose of all hospital stocks in all accounts that I have control of."