Posted on 12/26/2011 9:41:27 AM PST by TBBT
Carrollton, Georgia (CNN) -- Newt Gingrich claims that it was his first wife, not Gingrich himself, who wanted their divorce in 1980, but court documents obtained by CNN appear to show otherwise.
The Republican presidential candidate, now in his third marriage, has been peppered with attacks and questions about his divorce from Jackie Gingrich for the past three decades.
Questions about his past -- and what that past tells voters about his personal behavior -- have re-emerged as he has returned to the political scene 13 years after he resigned as speaker of the House.
A new defense that has arisen as Gingrich entered the presidential race this year is the insistence that she, not he, wanted the divorce.
On the "Answering the attacks" page of his campaign website, Newt.org, which "(Sets) the Record Straight: Newt's Positions on the Issues and His Record," the campaign discusses Gingrich's first divorce.
"It was (Jackie Gingrich) that requested the divorce, not Newt," the campaign website said, referring readers to an online column written by Gingrich's youngest daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman, last May.
Cushman, 13 when her parents separated in 1980, was rebutting persistent rumors that her father served divorce papers on her mother the day after cancer surgery. In the column, Cushman writes that papers were never served in the hospital, and that her mother did not actually have cancer.
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Newt's daughter wrote the passage you are referring to.
"In the column, Cushman writes that papers were never served in the hospital, and that her mother did not actually have cancer."
Funny how they wait until the very last line in the article to say something good about Newt. The press does this all the time, doing the very bare minimum with a little counterpoint at the very end to be able to call the article “balanced.”
So according to CNN, since his wife didn’t file, it proves something, as though a woman “with cancer” awaiting surgery in the hospital can be the responsible party to file for divorce.
Newt may be a bastard. But he’s OUR bastard.
Yes, that is BO’s MO.
Gingrich should shrug it off and turn it back on the media, and their refusal to do even the most rudimentary background check on Obama. And he should hammer this point home at every opportunity he has, using different examples of their negligence.
“My divorce thirty years ago? Hmmm. Was that before or after Obama was indulging in cocaine on a regular basis? Hey, did you guys ever establish if he was maybe a dealer?”
I would PAY to see that! ;^)
>> All candidates have baggage
All candidates except Obama.
Isn’t amazing how the media can dig up an amazing level of detail on every candidate except the one they continue to breast feed and nurture for POTUS.
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:”During these years, you had to make sure those papers were there,” Skinner said. “People could go in those files and get things out. We didn’t have enough security to control it.”
Current Carroll County Clerk of Court Alan Lee said he called the retired deputy clerk, who told him where to find the papers, after CNN began looking for them last week.
The documents, and interviews with people close to the couple at the time, contradict the Gingrich claim about who wanted the divorce.”
So the case (I Think) was sealed and the info has been laying around in a desk for 30 years............I smell something stinky
from the article
Leonard H. “Kip” Carter, a former close Gingrich friend, backed the contention that it was Newt Gingrich who wanted the divorce.
“He (Gingrich) said, ‘You know and I know that she’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of a president,’ “ Carter, who now lives in South Carolina, told CNN recently, relating the conversation he had with Gingrich the day Gingrich revealed he was filing for divorce. Carter served as treasurer of Gingrich’s first congressional campaigns.
Carter, who was a fellow history professor when Gingrich taught at West Georgia College in Carrollton, said he broke off his friendship with Newt Gingrich because of the congressman’s treatment of his wife during the divorce.
Asked in an e-mail whether that conversation in 1980 occurred the way that Carter recounted, Gingrich spokesman Hammond did not respond.
Gerald Johnson, a Georgia state legislator at the time who also was in Gingrich’s Sunday school class, said it was his memory that Jackie Gingrich did not want a divorce. Johnson laughed when told the presidential campaign is now saying she requested the divorce, calling that “surprising.”
When Gingrich filed for divorce, he was already seeing a 28-year-old congressional aide, whom he married six months after his divorce was final in 1981. The second wife, Marianne Ginther Gingrich, told Esquire magazine last year that Gingrich even introduced her to his parents in the summer of 1980, the same time he filed for divorce.
“They were thrilled because they hadn’t wanted Newt to marry (Jackie Battley),” she told Esquire.
Gingrich divorced Marianne Gingrich 19 years later, after an affair with a younger congressional aide whom he married soon after his divorce. The third wife, Callista Bisek Gingrich, is now a major figure in his presidential campaign.
This stuff is not important to me but I am not sure it will play well with a lot of women. His gender gap was narrowing but my best guess is that it will start widening again.
“When Jackie Gingrich and her daughters moved from their other home in Fairfax, Virginia, back to their house in Carrollton, Georgia, there were “no lights, no heat, no water, no food in the home,” former Gingrich friend and academic colleague Carter said.”
Why would they have had food in the house and all the utilities on if no one was living there? This smells like a 4-Pinocchio line to me.
Out of date issue and no longer germane.
Why don’t they investigate Larry Sinclair’s story of Obama’s homosexual affair and extensive use of illegal drugs instead of this idiocy?
Communists News Network (CNN) is not to be believed.
To think he could have just raped, committed adultery and have homosexual affairs and everything would be okay. Oh wait, that’s only Democrats that can get away with it.
Divorce papers are usually a bunch of lies and everyone knows it.
Nice job, CNN. Now where are the Bamster’s college transcripts and his thesis for law school?
Best to be a liberal and just “live in sin.” “Breaking up with your girlfriend” never looks as bad in the headlines as “divorce.” Actually this stigma of divorce is one reason so many fewer people are getting married these days. Of course there’s no stigma on cohabitation outside of marriage. Then we would be “judging” somebody.
Like John McCain perhaps?
Many times in life when I moved into a vacant house I had to arrange to get the utilities turned on and buy food
Oh the humanity
So are you switching to Santorum, less baggage? There's only a week to go.
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