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Posted on 11/30/2011 3:10:53 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Newt Gingrich is adamant that he is not a lobbyist, but rather a visionary who traffics in ideas, not influence. But in the eight years since he started his health care consultancy, he has made millions of dollars while helping companies promote their services and gain access to state and federal officials.
In a variety of instances, documents and interviews show, Mr. Gingrich arranged meetings between executives and officials, and salted his presentations to lawmakers with pitches for his clients, who pay as much as $200,000 a year to belong to his Center for Health Transformation.
When the center sponsored a “health transformation summit” at the Florida State Capitol in March 2006, lawmakers who attended Mr. Gingrich’s keynote speech inside the House chamber received a booklet promoting not just ideas but also the specific services of two dozen of his clients. Executives from some of those companies sat on panels for discussions that lawmakers were encouraged to attend after Mr. Gingrich’s address.
Gerard White, president of Clearwave, which paid about $50,000 to become a center member, used the occasion to pitch his company’s system for managing patient medical data. “It was a way for companies who were part of Newt’s group to say to health officials in Florida, ‘Hey, here are some exciting things we’re doing,’ ” Mr. White said.
Mr. Gingrich and his aides have repeatedly emphasized that he is not a registered lobbyist, an important distinction in their effort to position him as an outsider who will transform the ways of Washington. They say that he has never taken a position for money and that corporations have signed on with him because of the strength of his ideas.
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LOL Gotta love this.
“Push.” LOL
The NY Times is desperate. They should just go back to the “divorced cancer stricken wife” meme. What a joke!
Forget it this dog is just not going to hunt. Nobody believes or probably even cares about this non scandal which is why try as they may the MSM and the Perrybots cannot get any traction on this subject.
LOL, no one has cast the first vote yet.
Maybe I’m too cynical, but I think human nature is human nature. Founding Fathers included. Yes, they risked a lot, but only to put themselves in place to benefit.
It’s not true of everyone. Many including some of the founding fathers made decisions that they knew would cause themselves harm.
If governments are nothing more than wealth engines for the people that run them, then the commoners are fools to cooperate.
Maybe I’m too cynical, but I think human nature is human nature. Founding Fathers included. Yes, they risked a lot, but only to put themselves in place to benefit.
It’s not true of everyone. Many including some of the founding fathers made decisions that they knew would cause themselves harm.
If governments are nothing more than wealth engines for the people that run them, then the commoners are fools to cooperate.
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