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The Gingriches and Tiffany: When a loan becomes lobbying [Newt=Toast]
Reuters ^
| 5/25/11
Posted on 05/25/2011 10:36:58 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
At the same time Tiffany & Co. was extending Callista (Bisek) Gingrich a virtual interest-free loan of tens of thousands of dollars, the diamond and silverware firm was spending big bucks to influence mining policy in Congress and in agencies over which the House Agriculture Committeewhere she workedhad jurisdiction, official records show
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 112th; calista; lobbying; mining; newt; silver; tiffanys; toast
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It's over.
To: NativeNewYorker
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posted on
05/25/2011 10:38:20 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: NativeNewYorker
I was over last week. Now it’s beyond over.
To: NativeNewYorker
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posted on
05/25/2011 10:40:16 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(Cain/McCotter 2012)
To: NativeNewYorker
Now it makes sense. What normal American owes $250K to Tiffany’s?
To: NativeNewYorker
Bye bye Newt.
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posted on
05/25/2011 10:44:46 AM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: NativeNewYorker
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posted on
05/25/2011 10:45:17 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: NativeNewYorker
It's over. Newt dropped the 'big' one.
To: ilovesarah2012
“What normal American owes $250K to Tiffany’s?”
One that wouldn’t understand for one second the fact that people are hurting financially. One who wouldn’t understand that some have to choose between gas and what we put into our grocery carts. Just a thought.
To: NativeNewYorker
my only regret is that this may not put the fork in his post-defeat career as a pundit, which I’m convinced is the only reason he announced in the first place.
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posted on
05/25/2011 10:49:03 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: colorado tanker
Right, looks like more self inflicted wounds. More reaping of what is sown if the allegations are true.
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posted on
05/25/2011 10:55:38 AM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
To: NativeNewYorker
you just can’t make this stuff up.
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posted on
05/25/2011 10:56:35 AM PDT
by
Reagan69
(If it ain't broke, the government will fix it till it is.)
To: NativeNewYorker
Will Hannity still call him a ‘great American’?
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posted on
05/25/2011 10:57:35 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: NativeNewYorker
Karma. Wife #1 must be smiling.
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posted on
05/25/2011 11:13:48 AM PDT
by
FES0844
To: stuartcr
If the checks don’t bounce then yes he will.
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posted on
05/25/2011 11:14:55 AM PDT
by
Eyes Unclouded
("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
To: NativeNewYorker
Lots of jewelry companies offer “interest-free” loans upon a purchase. The interest is built into the margin of the purchased item.
I guess I don’t see the smoking gun here.
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posted on
05/25/2011 11:15:16 AM PDT
by
Carling
(Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
To: RockinRight
“Bye, Newt.”
Who is Newt? What is a Newt?
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posted on
05/25/2011 11:18:37 AM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
(2008 was about words; 2012 will be about numbers)
To: Carling
I have been around Wall Street high society for a few decades. I've spent LOTS of time and money at Tiffanys, which is just a few blocks from my office.
I have NEVER heard of a family with its own six-figure charge account at the jeweler. Newt's account for his wife makes no sense unless he's personally reeling in a minimum of $7 million/year, which seems damn unlikely. And even then, why give all your biz to one shop? Gals like variety and surprise in the trinket department.
BUT, that account as a blind for a "free jewelry" bribery scam makes a whole lot of sense.
To: colorado tanker
It's not only merely over. It's really most sincerely over.
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posted on
05/25/2011 11:22:31 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Eyes Unclouded
Now that’s a great American.
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posted on
05/25/2011 11:24:03 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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