Strip club owner’s dog shelter named for Gingrich opens. “Newt’s Nook — A Home for Pit Bulls.”

[Are_grits_groceries]

Last September, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich retracted an “Entrepreneur of the Year” award he accidentally presented to Dallas strip club owner Dawn Rizos and refunded the $5,000 donation Rizos made to Gingrich’s American Solutions for Winning the Future. At the time, Rizos said she would take the money to build a shelter for unwanted pit bulls.

A North Texas shelter for pit bulls has opened this week, thanks to a Dallas topless club owner’s contribution after Newt Gingrich’s conservative group snubbed her donation. <...>

Rizos says she decided to “make something positive out of his bad manners.”

She redirected the money to Animal Guardians of America’s sanctuary for rescued dogs in Celina, about 35 miles north of Dallas.

Gingrich didn’t attend the opening of “Newt’s Nook — A Home for Pit Bulls.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/26/gingrich-dog-shelter/

HEH!
More charity on Thanksgiving than all wingnuts combined.

[SpiralHawk]

1. Newtie (R) will undoubtedly divorce himself from this...

Like a typical republicon chickenhawk, he'll wait until the shelter is sick or wounded, then show up with divorce papers in hand, a made-in-China flag pin on his lapel, and a sanctimonious, shit-eatin grin on his face.