Posted on 11/18/2011 2:51:00 AM PST by Fred
A think tank founded by GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich collected at least $37 million over the past eight years from major health-care companies and industry groups, offering special access to the former House speaker and other perks, according to records and interviews.
The Center for Health Transformation, which opened in 2003, brought in dues of as much as $200,000 per year from insurers and other health-care firms, offering some of them “access to Newt Gingrich” and “direct Newt interaction,” according to promotional materials. The biggest funders, including firms such as AstraZeneca, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Novo Nordisk, were also eligible to receive discounts on “products and workshops” from other Gingrich groups.
The health center advocated, among other things, requiring that “anyone who earns more than $50,000 a year must purchase health insurance or post a bond,” a type of insurance mandate that has since become anathema to conservatives.
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They quietly destroy decent Americans like Herman Cain and Sarah Palin, and almost seem to be in perfect harmony with the democrats on many issues that are destructive to our Society.
Gingrich can go to hell for all I care.
His baggage with the cheating and bad marriages will bring him down like a meteor, say nothing of his lovefest with the damn democrats.
So you're not interested in seeing the truth about Newt?
Funny how going back just a few short months here, when Newt announced his candidacy, you found virtually no pro-Newt posts , so what changed?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2717484/posts
Heck, several have told me this week that Newt's record and statements before 2009 and 2010 are irrelevant. I don't remember any of these people saying that about Palin.
Excellent point!
Congratulations on posting this pile over and over. No candidate is perfect, but I sure am not going to vote for Obama. I wish I could find a candidate that agreed with me totally on every point, but unless I run, that is not going to happen. I must choose the best of the choices. I have not made up my mind, but your posting does nothing to advance my decision making process and just takes up space.
"Newt is very smart and he is a great historian, but...he ain’t presidential."
Not even, liar.
One can love Palin and still appreciate Newt.
She broke your heart and you went crazy.
“these are consulting fees and not lobbying fees.”
Is there really a difference?
“...you’re not interested in seeing the truth...”
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You are one of the “useful idiots”.
You are a pompous ass.
You are a fool.
You are a troll.
Does your twisted mind believe that you are the sole source of all knowledge out here on the inter-webs?
What is it that you think you know about Newt that I don’t already know?
Newt was the U.S. representative for my district when he was speaker of the house.
I probably know more about him than you.
Why are you on such an obsessive rant?
Your constant bashing is counterproductive and sounds like you belong on CNN or MSNBC.
Identify who your candidate is and say good things about him.
You only do the socialist democrat opposition favors with your continuous negative approach.
Oh, and be so kind as to cease all contact with me,
lest yea be smitten a second time.
Who cares its not illegal.
He made money promoting the socialism. Thats capitalism. I can’t believe how many people don’t like capitalism.
Sure I do. It’s still my opinion. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to let cheap shots go by unremarked.
N/S is that you?
Yeah, that’s some good research,there Inspector Holmes.
That is what I said in May...
which was like 6 months ago...
which can be an eternity in politics.
I can change my mind again tomorrow.
It has to do with looking at the issues.
What is your major malfunction, numb nuts?
That’s just it. He wasn’t smitten. “Maintains 2 accounts. (at least)
Timbler Rattler = Virginia Ridgerunner
He was supposedly smitten for Sarah Palin.
Come on. It was all for his perspective as a historian, it had nothing to do with him being the former Speaker of the House.
remember N/S
the troll who used to be on here 24/7, who used to troll every thread, who used to put down southerners, our side etc?
Remember how that troll had no life and how the troll used to always look into others past posts, and then keep replying to posters even when they ignored the troll?
Remind you of anyone on this thread?
Those were your words, not mine. It seems that you can’t handle the truth now that you so clearly understood back in May.
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