Posted on 06/14/2011 10:07:08 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
A charity founded by Newt Gingrich paid Gingrich's for-profit company $220,000 over two years, ABC News reports. The non-profit, Renewing American Leadership, was meant to spur conversation about restoring Christian principles in Washington, and mostly did that through letters seeking donations. The list of people who responded to those letters with checks was given to Gingrich--something that would be very valuable to a potential presidential candidate building support early in the campaign. ReAL, as the non-profit is called, also paid full-price for Gingrich's books and DVDs. ABC News asked Gingrich for comment ahead of a speech in New Hampshire, but the candidate would only respond, "I'm not concerned about that. The American people aren't concerned about that. Try covering the speech."
"Newt Inc." as Gingrich's many organizations are called, has helped Gingrich stay in the public eye and his ideas in the public debate since he left office as Speaker of the House in the late 1990s. It has also made him rich: he bought a $1 million home in the suburbs of Washington, secured a $500,000 line of credit from Tiffany's, and, most recently, went on a two-week luxury cruise, the last of which cited as a reason for many of his campaign staff quitting en masse. Figuring out how all his organizations work together can be tricky, ABC News explains:
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Quite often when money is being criss crossed through various business entities, it is suspicious.
Remember, Newt talkks a better game than he plays.
Reagan was divorced...
“The elites simply don’t believe the rules apply to them.”
Well, they don’t apply. We are no longer a free country of free men, nor is this a nation of laws. We have not been for some time. People like Gingrich demonstrate the fraud that masks and perpetuates the decline.
agree, now he is just an ass on that couch with pelosi. go home newt and go away.
Not to mention ACORN.
What difference does this make?
Newt is going no where but down like that Goodyear blimp, crash and burn and good riddance.
Sadly you are right. He has demonstrated a lack of walking the talk and veering off course. Yet he knows his stuff.
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