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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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To: not2worry
Is that the same company that wishes to sell jet motors to the air force, the jets that. Will not fit in the plane, is that the same one.
21 posted on 11/17/2011 8:21:51 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: marty60
I am a Tea Party member and I don't ever recall Newt Gingrich being a Tea Party Darling.

Most Tea Party Members in my part of the State think he's a Rino and a Political Predator.

22 posted on 11/17/2011 8:22:58 PM PST by not2worry
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To: not2worry
Let's see...he was a private citizen, who formed a consulting group, and marketed his expertise to many corporations including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. His fees by DC standards were modest (Cf half a billion to the sham empty shell corp Solyndra). All perfectly legal. No he did not lobby congress on any of it. So what's the beef? You got something against free enterprise?
23 posted on 11/17/2011 8:24:07 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: TitansAFC

Don’t get me worked up, ok, I am being real kind right now.

So I am to say hey, a fella got to make a living, correct, this is how I am to defend this work of Newt’s... Just let me know...


24 posted on 11/17/2011 8:24:20 PM PST by Fred (no job no house no gas no food no problem Obama 2012)
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To: 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.”-—

So the NY Times is now admitting that big corporate interests have to be TAUGHT the language of Republicans?

This is first time I have ever heard them admit that corporations speak Democrat as their native tongue.


25 posted on 11/17/2011 8:24:35 PM PST by TitansAFC (Stop the caINSANITY, The Pizza guy is less qualified than Obama!!! No New taxes!!)
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To: dfwgator

In DC, they’re all whores.


They certainly are. Very, very few exceptions.


26 posted on 11/17/2011 8:24:59 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Baynative

But nobody cares about this but the communists who are clogging up traffic for some cause no one knows. Free enterprise allows you or Newt or whoever to go make money as long as it is LEGAL!! Stop this crap about Newt and go dig crap on this commie president we have!!


27 posted on 11/17/2011 8:26:02 PM PST by Ardenroad gal
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To: MHGinTN
I don't know what Newt did for GE - you will have to ask his Campaign if they will release that information.

All I have done reference an article that lists his clientele.

Your assumptions - not mine.

28 posted on 11/17/2011 8:26:56 PM PST by not2worry
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To: Fred

Fred,

it is only since certain Freepers decided to try and assassinate Newt that I learned just how many people here have a problem with capitalism.

Frightening, really.

Next we’ll hear that he gave advice to......gasp.....tobacco companies!


29 posted on 11/17/2011 8:26:56 PM PST by TitansAFC (Stop the caINSANITY, The Pizza guy is less qualified than Obama!!! No New taxes!!)
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To: Fred
He was a private citizen. Everything he did was legal and ethical. What the hell more do you need to defend? You jealous that he made so much more money than you? Pathetic.
30 posted on 11/17/2011 8:27:18 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Round 9

When he mentions the $$$ savings we all know what that means.

People that know what a NO CODE is no how it USE to be determined. In consultation with the family etc.

The advance directive while it has good points, is a license to bypass family. That is unacceptable.


31 posted on 11/17/2011 8:30:53 PM PST by marty60
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To: not2worry
OMG! I hear he once bought a book from Walmart -- He's a Chi-Com shill!!!!! /rolleyes

OMG Newt did something LEGAL! Get a rope!!!
32 posted on 11/17/2011 8:31:30 PM PST by Sudetenland (There can be no freedom without God--What man gives, man can take away.)
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To: not2worry

How very phony of you. You try to impugn via vacuous innuendo and someone calls your hand, then you play alinskyesque feint to try and run away from your exposure.


33 posted on 11/17/2011 8:32:43 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: not2worry

I read something earlier today that Gingrich has attended all these TP events and was a TP favorite. But then I let down my guard and believed something I read in the media. Self Slap!


34 posted on 11/17/2011 8:33:20 PM PST by marty60
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To: faucetman

me too!!


35 posted on 11/17/2011 8:34:14 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: Baynative
True, but you cannot run around saying you support smaller government and less spend, while you are doing everything you can to slop the crony pigs.
36 posted on 11/17/2011 8:34:48 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: TitansAFC
It is frightening, and disappointing. We are really dealing with the B-Team here, and a very thin bench behind it. The gross ignorance of basic conservative free market concepts, and the total vacuum regarding simple ethical and legal issues, is pathetic.
37 posted on 11/17/2011 8:35:40 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Fred

all of this disturbing stuff if coming out much too late.


38 posted on 11/17/2011 8:36:23 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: TitansAFC

Gingrich was never a lobbyist of any kind.

Factually wrong to call him a lobbyist.


39 posted on 11/17/2011 8:37:36 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC BY DONATING NOW! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: not2worry
Another guy who worked for GE (and this one was a Democrat at one time):

http://hnn.us/articles/32681.html

40 posted on 11/17/2011 8:38:13 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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