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Gingrich hints he may release details on Freddie Mac payments today
CBS ^ | 111811 | Walt Cronkite

Posted on 11/18/2011 10:59:24 AM PST by Fred

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Thursday that he's trying to figure out how much money he made from controversial housing giant Freddie Mac and suggested he may release the information as early as Friday.

Gingrich's comments, in an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, represent the latest shift in his campaign's response to a Bloomberg News story earlier this week that said the former House speaker made as much as $1.6 million from Freddie. Initially, the Gingrich campaign promised to release details about the payment, then appeared to back off that pledge.

Freddie Mac and its sister quasi-governmental agency, Fannie Mae, are under scrutiny for mortgage lending practices that are believed to have led to an inflation of the housing bubble.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cronycapitalist; fannie; foreclosure; freddie; gingrich; influencepeddler; porkbarrel; shill; toobigtofail; zombiebanks
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To: TitansAFC
The number of anti-CRONY-Capitalist Freepers who have suddenly decided to make themselves known, that's who.

There, fixed it for ya.

21 posted on 11/18/2011 12:15:47 PM PST by montag813
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To: swampfox101

Still here squealing like a pig I see. What the matter afraid to face the facts about your god Newtie?


22 posted on 11/18/2011 12:39:13 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: TitansAFC

Don’t compound your scumbag tactics by lying about them. You did it and you were caught doing it.


23 posted on 11/18/2011 12:40:20 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: MNJohnnie

HA! HA! You the one doing all the squelling. I’m very confident your boy obama is gonna get his butt whopped in 2012.

You the one going around posting all these lefy articles from discredited and disgraced, corrupt sources like the ny times.


24 posted on 11/18/2011 1:02:42 PM PST by swampfox101
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To: TitansAFC
Doesn’t supporting Mitt Romney after Romneycare was enacted seem a bit hypocritical, too,

Absolutely. I have never, ever, supported Mitt Romney.

25 posted on 11/18/2011 1:44:56 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: swampfox101

Waiting for the great transparency from Newt...what nothing...ohh just crickets


26 posted on 11/18/2011 7:32:50 PM PST by Fred (no job no house no gas no food no problem Obama 2012)
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27 posted on 11/18/2011 7:33:50 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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