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(acting like the ole Newt) Edited on Mon Jan-23-12 08:47 AM by luckyleftyme2 The full extent of Mr. Gingrich’s involvement with Freddie Mac burst into the open after Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that he earned $1.6 million to $1.8 million, in an on-and-off relationship from 1999 to 2008, with the mortgage company that has since been taken over by the federal government. The payments were far more than had previously been known, or than Mr. Gingrich, the former House speaker, had acknowledged.
His compensation, which several former Freddie Mac officials confirmed in interviews on Wednesday, and the extent of his work with the mortgage company, presented Mr. Gingrich with a fresh challenge to his Republican bid for the presidency just as he was climbing in polls.
Not only is Freddie Mac a longtime conservative whipping post, but the extent of his consultancy for the mortgage giant seemed to be at odds with his own statements about his work there. He has also blamed it for the collapse of the housing market, saying that at least one Democratic supporter should be jailed, and, in 2008, that President Obama should give back any money his campaign received from its executives.
NOW NEWT'S DENIAL SOUNDS LIKE THE OLE NEWT WITH THE SAME MESSAGE; I CAN GET AWAY WITH UNTRUTHS UNTIL I GET CORNERED -THEN I RUN AWAY! AND MY RECORD SHOWS THIS! REMEMBER THIS IS THE MAN WHO LED THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST CLINTON FOR CHEATING WHILE HE WAS INVOLVED WITH A MISTRESS (and his 2nd wife was in the hospital) AH YES ASK HIM TO TAKE A LIE DETECTOR TEST! HOW ABOUT HIS TAX RETURNS FOR THOSE YEARS! WHITEHOUSE IN 2012
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