The Republican primary circus show has a new head clown (Congress, ethics)
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It is entertaining seeing the torch passed to everyone but Mittens, who was long ago decided by the kingmakers of the GOP to be the one designated to lose to Pres. Obama.
Let's hear from retread Newt while he keeps the heat off Mittens
Among Gingrich’s “missteps” was his involvement in the House banking scandal when he issued bad checks in the late 80s and early 90s. Then there was the sweetheart deal he made with a publisher in 1994 that gave him a $4.5 million advance even though he had pilloried the Democratic House Speaker Jim Wrightz over the latter’s book deal a few years earlier. (Under pressure from the media and colleagues, Gingrich surrendered the advance and accepted a standard royalty agreement.) Subsequently, questions were raised about illegal funding for Gingrich’s political action committee GOPAC. An investigation by the House Ethics Committee found that the information Gingrich provided it about GOPAC was “inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable.” (The Speaker said it was because he had not gotten proper legal advice.) In January of 1997, Gingrich was reprimanded by the full House 395 to 28 and ordered to pay a penalty of $300,000 for contravening House ethics rules and utilizing a non-profit organization for political ends.
Though a loud advocate for family values, Gingrich has been divorced twice and is now working on his third marriage. His first marriage failed because he was having an affair with a woman who was later to become his second wife. There were then difficulties over payment of alimony and child support to his first wife, Jackie, who had uterine cancer. (Church collections apparently helped keep the family afloat.) Then while married to his second wife, Marianne, Gingrich began an affair with Callista, twenty-three years his junior, who eventually became his third wife. (Callista had been a junior Congressional staffer when the affair started with Gingrich.) What makes this even more repugnant was Gingrich’s leadership role in the effort to impeach President Clinton for sexual improprieties while he himself was similarly engaged.
Now, information has surfaced about Gingrich’s work for Freddie Mac, a government backed agency that he has demonized. Notwithstanding that, from 1999 to 2008, he received $1.6- $1.8 million from this organization, but denies lobbying for them and says that he was merely a “consultant” to help Freddie Mac deal with conservatives in Congress. Questions have also arisen about Gingrich’s contracts with several other firms and contradictory stances in regard to his work.
Hell, i would. The farm and all the animals on it. The main house too.
The American electorate are a bunch of boobs and knuckle dragging troglodytes, but even they wouldn't elect Newt Gingrich.
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