His lily white campaign was begun after he began to control his own media campaign for Repugnant republicans like himself (he is a one man propaganda machine) and mudslinging videos against democrats. When the press maligns him, he fights back… dirty because his past holds some real dirt:

http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gin grich-0910

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/0 5/newt-gingrich-and-hospital-room

http://motherjones.com/politics/1984/11/ newt-gingrich-shining-knight-post-reagan -right

The disclosure by Cassidy & Associates also lists former Gingrich legislative assistant Christy Evans as a lobbyist for the organization. I guess that kind of revolving door is normal there… so it is ok that the connection exists. (When our country’s Government started to look like the mob ran it we vocalized our contempt for being Governed like that… and the scandal ended. That is what ethic committees are for)

I looked at the list of resources that AG is responsible for and mining is Natural resources. Although water use and land use overlap, it is unlikely the committees overlapped on mining, so it is less likely that portion is still a story.

I think if the man is rich he is entitled to spend it as he wishes, but he has filed that he has 500k racked up in unpaid bills at a jewellery store. How can that not be an issue for a man running on “frugality” and “paying his bills” kinda guy… like you and me…

A man running on a family values platform who leaves 2 wives who have MS and Cancer and marries a third which he has to “keep” in jewels is not a man of integrity who can be trusted … but is that merely the female in me talking that I can’t pat him on the back and call it bravado?

I would never vote for him for his constant flip flopping, his partisan politics, his lack of integrity and lies, his blaming love of country for his misdeeds, and this would merely be insurance…. if I lived in your country that is. After watching the likes of Trump, Palin et al being considered contenders for President, I suppose he is still a contender…

Are you also running on a campaign which says you are “frugal” and “pay the bills? Running a 500k tab at Tiffany’s may not be what the taxpayers consider frugal. Do you?

So given the update, he or she has racked up 500k of purchases this year alone? Regardless of your absolutely incredibly close analogy *cough* he is a public figure and so it is being scrutinized. It isn’t that he “spends” the money there… it is the interest free loan and the idea that there may be other “incentives” which are offered.

Felix is correct that here must be official rules about accepting interest-free loans from companies lobbying your committee.

Tiffany’s Lobby “efforts” may not all be disclosed, in other words…(see URL below)

http://tinyurl.com/3pgkwbb

This exactly the type of off books lobbying efforts which are not disclosed, for obvious reasons, and why gifts and freebies are not to be accepted lest they be thought to be bribes or kickbacks. (whether they are or not) Your Lowes account is the same?

Now if anybody else = any kind of exclusive group of clients, then there is preferential treatment involved and I would agree that this is ethically wrong.

The only charge account info I can find anywhere on the Tiffany & Co. website carries a variable APR and doesn’t appear to have a promotional interest rate at all. If a no-interest financing option is truly available to “anybody else”, I’d like to see more information on it. I’d post a link to the Terms and Conditions page but I suspect that’s what flagged my previous comment attempt.

Gingrich has always been clever at branding himself as “smart.” That doesn’t mean that he is. He has consistently demonstrated himself to be quite dumb. This episode is but the latest example to wit.

Newt reads history books, spouts quotes from them, and waves his big banner proclaiming, “I’M SMART!” Then he proceeds to say and do the most stupid things. The man indicts himself like a rope-weaver begging to be hanged. A more pathetic creature of American politics would be ashamed… oh, but wait, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman are riding over the hill… rapture, anyone?