“He took money from them to help them hook up with the political class.”
What documentation has EVER been brought forth to prove this? Any? None, huh? He was not a lobbyist. Period. And you have nothing but thin air or a lower cavity from which you could have pulled this assertion.
I thought so.
You know, you can’t ask a question AND then pretend you already waited for an answer and didn’t get one. This is the internet, where when you write stuff someone has to read it to respond.
Why do YOU think that Freddie and Fannie paid him $1.6 million dollars. Do you think his degree as a History Major made him particularly useful in helping them figure out how to provide better customer service to their mortgagees? It would be ludicrous to pretend they hired him for ANY reason other than to help them figure out how to best win the legislative game. That was his expertise.
And you don’t have to be a lobbyist to help the company figure out how to work the politicians. He would simply have to counsel them on who to talk to, what to say, how to pull the right strings. He doesn’t have to actually introduce them; he just has to tell them what to do, and then they can drop his name if necessary.
Your assumption that “hooking up” can only mean lobbying is actually silly, since “hooking up” is actually NOT lobbying. Lobbying is if Newt shows up and tries to convince legislators to do something for the companies. Newt could actually introduce the firm lobbyists to the elected officials and never actually lobby. But that’s not what I said — I simply said that he was hired by them to do a job, and he got paid $1.6 million, and the job he would do that would be worth that much would be to help them with their legislative needs, and he apparently was good at it because they paid him a lot of money.
But I’d love to here what YOU think he did for them that was worth $1.6 million to them.