Gingrich wife worked for committee heavily lobbied by Tiffany

[kpete]

Gingrich wife worked for committee heavily lobbied by Tiffany

At the same time Tiffany & Co. was extending Callista (Bisek) Gingrich a virtual interest-free loan of tens of thousands of dollars, the diamond and silverware firm was spending big bucks to influence mining policy in Congress and in agencies over which the House Agriculture Committee--where she worked--had jurisdiction, official records show.

Filings by Tiffany’s lobbyist, Cassidy & Co., and other government records show that the firm’s spending on “mining law and mine permitting-related issues” in Congress, as well as the Forest Service, the Interior Department, and Interior’s Bureau of Land Management shot up sharply between during the period when Callista Gingrich was chief clerk at the House Agriculture Committee.

Tiffany's annual lobbying expenditures rose from about $100,000 to $360,000 between 2005 and 2009, according to records assembled by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan government watchdog organization.

The Forest Service, which comes under the committee’s jurisdiction, oversees mining, including silver mining, in federal forests.

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http://spytalkblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/gingrich-wife-worked-for-committee.html
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[hobbit709]

1. IOKIYAR

[SpiralHawk]

2. Just goes to show, never trust your 4th Republicon wife.

I think that's a Bublical proverb or something

[hobbit709]

3. Actually she's number 3

[mod mom]

4. TPM covered this a couple days ago:

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/gingriches_rang_up_big_tiffany_co_bill_while_jeweler_was_lobbying_her_house_committee.php

Not sure of your links & always attempt to find sources I know I can trust like TPM so I thought I's share it again :hi:

[Jackpine Radical]

5. The link doesn't work.

[mod mom]

10. I'll try again...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/gingriches_rang_up_big_tiffany_co_bill_while_jeweler_was_lobbying_her_house_committee.php

[NJCher]

6. On "Meet the Press," Gingrich was Evasive

While he stated that he had a revolving account with Tiffanys, he admitted it was interest-free and it was for half a million.

When Schieffer pressed him on it, he repeatedly said, "Go talk to Tiffanys." I thought that answer evasive and stupid. Why should Schieffer ask Tiffanys what his loan was for? Why would they answer that question?

How could an experienced politician NOT have an answer prepared for a situation this revealing?


Cher

[Phentex]

7. because he's an ass? because he's slime? because he's an idiot?...

because avoiding the question and the issues IS WHAT HE DOES?

I need him to go away very soon!

[rocktivity]

8. Yes. And if he hadn't used the account as an example of his fiscal responsbility

It probably never would have been revealed!

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Kingofalldems]

9. Special Prosecutor needed pronto

[KharmaTrain]

11. Classic Case Of Drip! Drip! Drip!

From what I've read there's nothing illegal involved here...the reason people found out was Gnewt put it on his financial dislosure form. It was right out there for the plucking...and that's where I'm amused at how inept the Gnewmeister has been in mismanaging this.

Had he admitted he ran up the tab, paraded the latest Mrs. Stepford Gingrich wearing the tiara and broach...we would have laughed for a day and then moved on to his next bafoonery. Instead, questions hang out there and the longer they do, the more questions get asked. And those questions start to go into the quid pro quo and his own fiscal accountability.

Political croninism and neopotism...you bet...but its outright common inside the beltway. Its more a peek at the workings of the corporate welfare system...