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GINGRICH FACES MORE SCRUTINY OVER CORPORATE CLIENTS
New York Times ^ | November 17, 2011 | Jim Rutenberg

Posted on 11/17/2011 7:56:15 PM PST by not2worry

His campaign has said that he did no lobbying; but his consultancy practice was centered around his ability to help big corporate interests speak the language of Republicans and navigate the corridors of Capitol Hill on issues vital to their businesses.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corporatewelfare; cronycapitalist; feedingatthetrough; gingrich; influencepeddler; newt; newtgingrich; porkbarrel
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I would classified this as Intellectual Insider Trading!
1 posted on 11/17/2011 7:56:16 PM PST by not2worry
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2 posted on 11/17/2011 7:57:12 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: not2worry

The media will rake him over the coals for doing what they whole heartedly approve of on the left.


3 posted on 11/17/2011 8:00:35 PM PST by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: not2worry

OMG!! OMG!! Capital letters!!


4 posted on 11/17/2011 8:03:15 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Baynative

I’d like to believe that we have far better morals than the Left.


5 posted on 11/17/2011 8:06:50 PM PST by not2worry
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To: musicman

I, for one, would like to know how he operated his consulting (lobbying?) business, and with whom he did business and how much - before any primary happens.

I like to know everything possible for casting a vote.


6 posted on 11/17/2011 8:08:23 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: not2worry

Scrutiny is a good thing. Say, how about applying some to the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave?


7 posted on 11/17/2011 8:09:12 PM PST by fhayek
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To: big'ol_freeper
Definitely capital letters! Newt's fatal attraction of wanting to be known as DC’s king pin of political and intellectual history and using it for his financial benefits deserves the fanfare.
8 posted on 11/17/2011 8:10:47 PM PST by not2worry
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To: not2worry

“Writing on the Web site of The Washington Post, Mr. Gingrich praised Gundersen Lutheran Health System of LaCrosse, Wis., for its successful efforts to persuade most patients to have “advance directives,” saying that if Medicare had followed Gundersen’s lead on end-of-life care and other practices, it would “save more than $33 billion a year.””

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Well Well, Newt lobbying for DEATH PANELS.

Does anyone ever do any research on candidates before they jump on the bandwagon.

He is supposedly the TEA PARTY DARLING.

Excuse me, when did the Tea Party start supporting the DEATH PANELS?


9 posted on 11/17/2011 8:11:41 PM PST by marty60
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To: fhayek

I am trying to get the current occupant out of the WH, but I don’t want him replaced by a RINO.


10 posted on 11/17/2011 8:12:34 PM PST by not2worry
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To: not2worry

So Jeffrey Immelt is one of Newt’s clients?


11 posted on 11/17/2011 8:13:36 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: not2worry

In DC, they’re all whores.


12 posted on 11/17/2011 8:14:35 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: elpadre

I still just want to know where our current president was born.


13 posted on 11/17/2011 8:15:10 PM PST by faucetman (Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
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To: elpadre

How does Newt expect to win with this kind of baggage?

Gingrich think tank collected millions from health-care industry

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gingrich-think-tank-collected-millions-from-health-care-industry/2011/11/16/gIQAcd72VN_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop

What the are we all suppose to do with this? How do I defend him?


14 posted on 11/17/2011 8:17:07 PM PST by Fred (no job no house no gas no food no problem Obama 2012)
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To: 9YearLurker

Yes, in deed. One of Newt’s client is in fact GE!

General Electric Company - The benefactor of many grants and legislation approved by Congress and of course one of the many mega corporatations that pay nada taxes.


15 posted on 11/17/2011 8:18:16 PM PST by not2worry
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To: not2worry
Dirty laundry headed for the clothesline.
16 posted on 11/17/2011 8:19:15 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: marty60

Advanced directives are not “death panels.” The patient, especially terminally ill patients can use them to declare that they do not want to be kept alive by artificial means. They are voluntary and have been around for years. Please do not confuse the two.


17 posted on 11/17/2011 8:19:51 PM PST by Round 9
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To: not2worry
"I’d like to believe that we have far better morals than the Left."

We do, but we've got to start fighting fire with fire. We continue to smugly hold the moral high ground against the immoral Leftist guerrilla warriors who are tunneling underneath us, and we're going to get buried. We've got to start fighting effectively, and give up trying to preach morals to the immoral.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

18 posted on 11/17/2011 8:20:39 PM PST by wku man (Who says conservatives don't rock? http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com)
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To: not2worry

And just how, other than scummy innuendo, does this fact that GE was a client of one of Newt’s companies mpugn Gingrich. Did he break laws? Did the Congress give favoritism to GE because they all love Newt? How is your scummy innuendo supposed to impugn Newt? That he worked to make that evil thing progressives like to hate, money?


19 posted on 11/17/2011 8:21:30 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: Fred

You’re kidding, right?

Even Cain made money as a lobbyist.

This whole idea that there is something wrong with being a consultant is insanely stupid.


20 posted on 11/17/2011 8:21:42 PM PST by TitansAFC (Stop the caINSANITY, The Pizza guy is less qualified than Obama!!! No New taxes!!)
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