newt GINGRCH REP

===see G 2 2/17

wow, record for 24 tags?  is he a hub? just around a long time? chameleon?

got his own tag, not all implemented 5/14

Pension plan?

use his career as "lens" into climate BS?

big contribution is altering comity culture of house

capt 1/17

=wright coup, DIDN'T GINGRICH almost immediately do a worse ethics breech?]new book the man who broke politics?<div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAcQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjl6YyUy97eAhUsh-AKHbfoA4cQFSgAMAB6BAgHEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/&ved=2ahUKEwjl6YyUy97eAhUsh-AKHbfoA4cQFjAAegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/&ved=2ahUKEwjl6YyUy97eAhUsh-AKHbfoA4cQFjAAegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/&ved=2ahUKEwjl6YyUy97eAhUsh-AKHbfoA4cQFjAAegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">How Newt Gingrich Destroyed American Politics - The Atlantic</a></h3>
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<div class="TbwUpd" style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 2px; display: inline-block;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.npr.org/2018/11/01/662965797/how-newt-gingrich-broke-politics</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;">Nov 1, 2018 - Coppins explains how Gingrich set the stage for President Trump's rise, and how ... Coppins' new article is 'The Man Who Broke Politics.' Also ...</div></div></div></div>=timeline to 98 frontline<a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/newtchron.html">https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/newtchron.html</a><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich">https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich</a>
<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">"Following Newt's Money"</h2><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">"I raised so much money over the years, from so many different people that ... I don't owe anyone."—Newt Gingrich, quoted by MotherJones.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-Mojo-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></dd></dl>"Far from owing no one, House Speaker Newt Gingrich has built his power base through a series of dubious transactions that look like political paybacks. At the center of Newt's political machine is <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOPAC" title="GOPAC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">GOPAC</a>, which has raised and spent more than $8 million since 1991 while skirting the federal election laws governing <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/PAC" class="mw-redirect" title="PAC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">PACs</a> to avoid naming its donors."<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-Mojo-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a>In August 2010, Salon.com released their findings on who is funding Gingrich's primary political committee, a 527 group called <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Solutions_for_Winning_the_Future" title="American Solutions for Winning the Future" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">American Solutions for Winning the Future</a>. Salon found a significant chunk of the group's funding comes from oil and gas and coal companies, according to the its IRS filings. American Solutions has run national TV ads opposing <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Cap-and-trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Cap-and-trade" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">cap-and-trade</a> bills.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-je-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a>According to Salon, American Solutions has taken in over $20 million as of the 2010 election cycle. Here are some of the group's biggest funders:<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-je-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[17]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Electric_Power" title="American Electric Power" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">American Electric Power</a>: CEO Michael Morris of the Ohio-based power company gave $100,000 in 2009. Along with electricity, the company operates the nation's largest power transmission network, operating over much of the East Coast and Midwest.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Arch_Coal" title="Arch Coal" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Arch Coal</a>: Based in St. Louis, Arch boasts it provides 16 percent of America's coal supply from 11 mining complexes around the country, making it the second largest coal producer in the country. It gave Gingrich $100,000.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Devon_Energy" title="Devon Energy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Devon Energy</a>: An Oklahoma-based oil and gas production company that gave American Solutions $250,000.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Plains_Exploration_and_Production" class="mw-redirect" title="Plains Exploration and Production" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Plains Exploration and Production</a>: A Houston-based oil and gas company that operates in the Gulf gave $100,000.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Workforce_Fairness_Institute" title="Workforce Fairness Institute" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Workforce Fairness Institute</a>: A Washington, D.C.-based anti-union pressure group that gave $150,000 to Gingrich's organization this cycle. Its website says it is "funded by and advocates on behalf of business owners who enjoy good working relationships with their employees, and would like to maintain those good relationships without the unfair interference of government bureaucrats, union organizers and special interests." <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_McKinnon" title="Mark McKinnon" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mark McKinnon</a>, longtime GOP operative and Bush aide, has been a spokesman for the institute.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Hubbard_Broadcasting" title="Hubbard Broadcasting" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hubbard Broadcasting</a>: <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stanley_Hubbard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stanley Hubbard (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stanley Hubbard</a>, a billionaire GOP donor from Minnesota, gave Gingrich's group $100,000. He owns radio and TV stations in several states.</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sheldon_Adelson" title="Sheldon Adelson" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sheldon Adelson</a>, the bingo parlor mogul, contributed $5 million to Gingrich's SuperPAC.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></li></ul>=<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/what-we-now-know-about-the-men-who-led-the-impeachment-of-clinton-8b5557723bc9/">https://thinkprogress.org/what-we-now-know-about-the-men-who-led-the-impeachment-of-clinton-8b5557723bc9/</a>
What We Now Know About The Men Who Led The Impeachment Of ClintonJUDD LEGUMMAY 30, 2015, 5:43 PM
On December 19, 1998, the House of Representatives impeached Bill Clinton on two charges related to his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky. (The charges were for perjury and obstruction of justice.) The historic vote, and subsequent trial in the Senate, involved the work of three men who were elected Speaker of the House Of Representatives by the Republican majority, Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston and Dennis Hastert.
Almost 17 years later, with the federal indictment of Hastert for illegally concealing up to $3.5 million in hush-money, we finally have a more complete understanding of the men who led this effort.
Newt GingrichSpeaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) led the push for Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Following a disappointing election in November 1998, he announced he was stepping down as Speaker and resigning from Congress.Gingrich later admitted that, while he was pushing for Clinton’s impeachment, he was engaged in an affair with a Congressional aide. “There were times when I was praying and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong. But I was still doing them,” Gingrich said in 2007. He later said the situation was “complex and, obviously, I wasn’t doing things to be proud of.”livingston, hastertThe question that hovered over what is likely the last EPA-sponsored conference on environmental and health, at least for a while, was what would happen to all this research as Trump moves forward. In a luncheon keynote speech on Wednesday, Newt Gingrich seemed to acknowledge that the new president would likely cut at least some government funding for environmental research. Gingrich, whose fee for speaking at events in Washington, DC recently increased to $25,000 based on his "insight into Trump," urged scientists to "defend what you do." In his seemingly off-the-cuff remarks, Gingrich suggested that environmental scientists not dwell on the imminent decrease in government funding for their work but instead be cheered by the "enormous opportunity" to get private sector funding. The statement elicited a snort of derision from someone at a table near mine.==

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<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); display: inline !important;">Yet Abramoff also transformed the once-sleepy College Republican campus clubs into a vibrant political force, enjoying access to members of Congress, especially Newt Gingrich, the little-known backbencher who would later become House speaker...

After purging the moderates in the College Republican hierarchy, Abramoff and his team launched a series of events to build public support for Reagan's foreign policy. The first was its ''Poland Will Be Free" campaign to support the democracy movement then under siege by the Polish communist government.

But in the eyes of the College Republicans, the Polish regime wasn't the only Moscow puppet -- so, too, were liberal student groups, the American media, leftist professors, and nuclear-freeze activists. Abramoff distributed on campuses 900 copies of a book called ''Target America," which posited that the Soviets had planted 4,000 journalist-agents in the American media to pursue a ''massive secret propaganda campaign," according to memos.

A training manual from the period, which Reed helped to write, described Ralph Nader's network of Public Interest Research Groups on campus as ''tyrannical" and ''radical." Abramoff's team accused the United States Student Association -- a 350-chapter liberal campus group that in 1982 protested Reagan's student aid cuts -- of being a ''pro-Soviet, pro-terrorist, Marxist-Leninist organization." The manual advised boycotting ''Marxist" professors, and soliciting support from alumni college donors to oust them.

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We did, did we? I didn’t realize Anderson was quite that old. Seeing as dinosaurs still exist today, then yes, 600 ppm seems harmless indeed.

When Newt Gingrich <a href="http://grist.org/climate-energy/newt-gingrich-spouts-nonsense-about-dinosaurs-and-climate-change/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">made similarly bogus</a> “dinosaur times were great” comments, climate scientist Ralph Keeling responded that the goal isn’t simply to stay alive; it’s to maintain our civilization — a civilization that is much more complicated than some dinosaurs hanging out with some trees. We have <a href="http://grist.org/food/climate-change-is-decreasing-farm-yields-just-when-we-need-them-to-go-up/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">delicate agricultural systems</a>and <a href="http://grist.org/climate-policy/2011-03-10-nicholas-stern-climate-inaction-risks-new-world-war/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">fragile geopolitical relations</a>, neither of which is particularly begging to be disrupted by cranking up the heat. So in the interest of preventing World War III, think we can regulate carbon dioxide, Rep. Anderson?

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2/14

It’s been pretty cold across the U.S. these past few days, and most people aren’t so into that. Naturally, some conservatives are keen to<a href="http://grist.org/list/jon-stewart-daily-show-polar-vortex-global-warming/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">use the weather</a> to cast doubt on climate change. Or, if they take themselves a little too seriously for that, they might cast doubt on climate change by coming up with other pseudo-scientific arguments, like that warmer weather was great for stegosauruses, so why worry.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich falls into the latter category. As a host of CNN’s Crossfire, Gingrich described himself as an “amateur paleontologist” and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/07/newt-gingrich-climate-change_n_4554530.html?utm_hp_ref=politics" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">went on the following riff</a> on Tuesday:

The age of the dinosaurs was dramatically warmer than this is right now and it didn’t cook the planet. In fact, life was fine. The number of people leaving Minnesota this evening to get to the Caribbean versus the number of people leaving the Caribbean to try to get to Minnesota would argue that slightly warmer wouldn’t be a crisis.

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<p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.4em; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.8px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gingrich is not, even by his own admission, a professional paleontologist, much less a climate scientist. So I called a real climate scientist, Ralph Keeling, director of the CO2 Program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, and asked for an assessment of Gingrich’s comments. You’ll be shocked to discover that he doesn’t share Gingrich’s rosy outlook. Here’s what Keeling had to say, lightly edited for brevity and clarity:

Climate change is not about survival of life; it’s about survival of civilization. Sure, the planet has been warmer than anything we’re probably going to bring about, but that doesn’t mean it’s good.</blockquote></section>

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<table align="middle" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td align="center">Former Republican Representative (GA-6) and Speaker of the House</td></tr><tr><td width="30%"> Click here for <a href="javascript:pop('../2012/Newt_Gingrich_Energy+Oil.htm');">16 full quotes by Newt Gingrich</a> OR click here for <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Newt_Gingrich.htm#Energy+Oil">Newt Gingrich on other issues</a>.

<ul>

<li>Obama favors far-left interests at expense of energy jobs. (Jan 2012)</li>

<li>1989: prevent global warming; 2012: unclear if warming real. (Dec 2011)</li>

<li>Put nuclear waste in deep storage for 10,000 years. (Oct 2011)</li>

<li>Every green tax credit is a tax loophole. (Sep 2011)</li>

<li>FactCheck: US has 110-year supply of gas, not 1,100 years. (Feb 2011)</li>

<li>2008 petition drive: Drill here, Drill now, Pay less. (Feb 2011)</li>

<li>New nuclear plants would reduce 2 billion tons of CO2 a year. (Feb 2011)</li>

<li>Doomsday climate theory pushes massive wealth transfer. (May 2010)</li>

<li>2008 book: Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less. (Dec 2007)</li>

<li>Billion-dollar prize for first mass-produced hydrogen car. (Dec 2007)</li>

<li>Kyoto treaty is bad for the environment and bad for America. (Dec 2006)</li>

<li>Focus on incentives for conservation & renewable resources. (Dec 2006)</li>

<li>Stop scare tactics about drilling in Alaska. (Dec 2006)</li>

<li>Gas tax sounds OK in DC, but not outside Beltway. (Jul 1998)</li>

<li>Cap-and-trade has no impact on global temperatures. (Jul 2010)</li>

<li>Explore proven energy reserves & keep energy prices low. (Jul 2010)</li>

</ul>

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mckibben:

Take Newt Gingrich, for instance.  Only four years ago he was willing to sit on a love seat with Nancy Pelosi and <a target="blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi6n-wB154">film a commercial</a> for a campaign headed by Al Gore.  In it he explained that he agreed with the California Congresswoman and then-Speaker of the House that the time had come for action on climate. This fall, hounded by Morano, he was forced to recant again and again.  His dalliance with the truth about carbon dioxide hurt him more among the Republican faithful than any other single “failing.”  Even Mitt Romney, who as governor of Massachusetts actually took some action on global warming, has now been <a target="_blank" href="http://current.com/technology/93574185_romney-scientists-can-figure-out-global-warming-50-years-from-now.htm">reduced</a> to claiming that scientists may tell us “in fifty years” if we have anything to fear.

In other words, a small cadre of fervent climate-change deniers took control of the Republican party on the issue.  This, in turn, has meant control of Congress, and since the president can’t sign a treaty by himself, it’s effectively meant stifling any significant international progress on global warming.  Put another way, the various <a target="_blank" href="http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-manifestation-kochtopus-empire">right wing billionaires</a> and energy companies who have bankrolled this stuff have gotten their money’s worth many times over.

<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/10/423381/newt-at-cpac-eliminate-the-environmental-protection-agency/">Newt At CPAC: ‘Eliminate The Environmental Protection Agency’</a> | At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich repeated his call for the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/01/25/140762/newt-epa-abolish/">elimination</a> of the Environmental Protection Agency, blaming it for killing jobs and lacking “common sense.” He later called for the elimination of the Department of Energy, which manages the nation’s nuclear power, weaponry, and waste, and is leading America’s investment in clean technology.

<h4>Related Posts</h4>

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<li><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/07/420017/fact-check-gingrich-falsely-claims-that-epa-proposes-to-raise-the-price-of-gas-by-25-cents-a-gallon/">Fact Check: Gingrich Falsely Claims That EPA Proposes To 'Raise The Price Of Gas By 25 Cents A Gallon'</a></li>

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an act of moderation?

pelosi ad ...

In the intervening years, as climate denial has became de rigueur in the Tea Party set, the ad has brought much joy to Newt’s many detractors on the right and left (<a href="http://grist.org/election-2012/2011-11-28-newt-gingrich-president-climate-video/">our own David Roberts among them</a>), and provoked much consternation and <a href="http://grist.org/election-2012/2011-11-28-newt-gingrich-president-climate-video/">contortion</a> from Gingrich himself.

In December 2011, Gingrich repudiated the ad more fully than ever before:

<blockquote>I’ve said publicly, sitting on the couch with Nancy Pelosi is the dumbest single thing I’ve done in the last few years. But if you notice, I’ve never favored cap and trade, and in fact, I actively testified against it.</blockquote>

The Washington Post‘s <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/gingrich-and-cap-and-trade-a-flip-flop/2011/12/04/gIQANXNVVO_blog.html">“Fact Checker” column</a> said it was “disingenuous” of Gingrich to claim that he has “never favored cap and trade.” (“‘Disingenuous’ is a kind way of saying ‘false,’” <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/12/05/382448/newt-gingrich-upside-down-pinocchio-flip-flop-cap-and-trade/?mobile=nc">Joe Romm helpfully explained</a>.) In 2007, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/interviews/gingrich.html">Gingrich praised the cap-and-trade concept</a>:

<blockquote>I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support.</blockquote>

<a href="http://grist.org/election-2012/2012-01-04-mitt-romney-climate-change-energy/">Mitt Romney has the flip-flopper reputation</a>, but Gingrich is just as acrobatic.

Gingrich’s “green conservatism”

Over the last few years, Gingrich has promoted what he calls “green conservatism.” (David wrote about it <a href="http://grist.org/politics/newt-seriously/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-roberts/newt-gingrich-a-onelegged_b_81809.html">here</a>, and <a href="http://grist.org/politics/rendered-newt/">here</a>.) In a <a href="http://grist.org/politics/2010-06-30-gingrich-slams-obama-on-bp-gulspill-and-sounds-off-on-climate/">2010 interview with Grist</a>, he talked about one of its key tenets — that “wealth and freedom generally lead to better environmental practices.” He <a href="http://grist.org/politics/2010-06-30-gingrich-slams-obama-on-bp-gulspill-and-sounds-off-on-climate/">also touches on</a> the BP oil spill, the need for energy subsidies, the fear the EPA provokes in corporate America, and the importance of protecting biodiversity. (Gingrich does <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/12/newt-gingrich-animal-lover/46576/">love animals</a>.)

In 2007, Gingrich coauthored a book about green conservatism, <a href="http://grist.org/politics/roth/">A Contract with the Earth</a>, and he’s currently co-editing a forthcoming book of essays on the same theme, Environmental Entrepreneurs. (In between, he published <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Drill-Here-Now-Pay-Less/dp/B005FOHO82/gristmagazine">Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less</a>.)

Environmental Entrepreneurs got caught up in controversy in December 2011 when Rush Limbaugh and other right-wingers got wind of the fact that it was to include a chapter on climate change by an atmospheric scientist, Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech. Gingrich promptly declared that the chapter would be dropped from the book, without any forewarning to Hayhoe. She <a href="http://grist.org/climate-change/chatting-with-newts-dissed-evangelical-climate-expert/">talked to Grist about the whole episode</a>.

A year ago, Gingrich called for the EPA to be abolished and replaced with an “Environmental Solutions Agency,” which he says would “work with industry instead of dictating to industry and incentivize the use of newer technologies instead of punishing current businesses.” (David, who’s clearly obsessed, <a href="http://grist.org/politics/2011-01-25-whats-behind-newt-gingrichs-proposal-to-abolish-the-epa/">wrote about that too</a>.)

Gingrich has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_gingrich#Early_political_career">been in politics so long</a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/magazine/what-does-newt-gingrich-know.html?pagewanted=all">written so many books</a>, and thrown out so many <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/rick-santorum-attacks-gingrichs-hairbrained-ideas-romney-and-pauls-scorched-earth-campaigns/">harebrained ideas</a> that I could only touch on the highlights here. If you’re dying to know more about Newt, check out some of Grist’s recent coverage and a few classics from the archives:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://grist.org/renewable-energy/on-cleantech-no-newt-is-good-newt/">On cleantech, no Newt is good Newt</a></li>

<li><a href="http://grist.org/cities/seeing-red-where-do-the-gop-candidates-stand-on-urban-issues/">Newt Gingrich’s stances on urban issues</a></li>

<li><a href="http://grist.org/list/newt-gingrich-thinks-riding-the-subway-is-for-fancy-people/">Newt Gingrich thinks riding the subway is for fancy people</a></li>

<li><a href="http://grist.org/list/2012-01-04-newt-gingrich-amateur-paleontologist-knows-science-better-than-y/">Newt Gingrich, ‘amateur paleontologist,’ knows science better than you</a></li>

<li><a href="http://grist.org/politics/2009-04-24-gore-and-gingrich-bump-heads/">Gore and Gingrich bump heads at House climate hearing</a></li>

<li><a href="http://grist.org/article/newt-gingrichs-green-conservatism">Newt Gingrich’s ‘green conservatism’ — It’s not an alternative, it’s a subset</a></li>

<li><a href="http://grist.org/article/a-one-legged-man-in-a-butt-kickin-contest">Gingrich’s further explications of green conservatism do not inspire confidence</a></li>

<li><a href="http://grist.org/article/Technology-technooology-you-are-feeling-sleepy-">Gingrich summarizes the state-of-the-art delayer line</a></li>

<li><a href="http://grist.org/politics/roth/">A review of A Contract with the Earth</a></li>

</ul>

See also: <a href="http://grist.org/election-2012/2012-01-04-mitt-romney-climate-change-energy/">Confused with a chance of flip-flop: Mitt Romney’s views on climate and energy</a>

<div>Lisa Hymas is senior editor at Grist. You can follow her on <a href="http://twitter.com/lisahymas">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://plus.google.com/106507937998378546064">Google+</a>.</div>

<a href="http://grist.org/election-2012/old-dog-newt-tricks-gingrichs-views-on-climate-epa-and-green-conservatism/">http://grist.org/election-2012/old-dog-newt-tricks-gingrichs-views-on-climate-epa-and-green-conservatism/</a>

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hist:

NEWT ran 3x, lost narrowly, got party $ 3rd time but had to hire pro's; nasty camp won: found really crappy tax lower bill (lost maybe 49-1), then crafted ad to say opponent passed up chance to lower your taxes 139  Newpaper had showed family newt wd take to DC, but visited wife in cancer ward not long after election and told her he was divorcing her [then later forbad families) 140; ad implied oppon was catholic. 206- aggression worried Bob MIchel, 79 c-span started gavel to gavel coverage of House, free access to 17 mil houses, newt and walker started giving speeches after end of biz to empty chamber; called out challenge , 20 dems named , (of course no response) read a long art'l from Rep Study Com on dem for policy, give benefit of doubt to commies, trash usa. o'neill PO'd, made rule that cam had to pan empty chamber, but newt challenged him on floor, said he'd sent ltrs in advance/challenge, would not yield till Tip walked up to him p207. Lott demanded tip's "lowest" remark striken, which was, unprecedented 208

Wright took over from tip as spkr; newt wanted to nip in bud; newt say media loves fight, use that to educate ppl.  NG assigned staffer to look thru articles for dirt on wright, encouraged reporters and shared info w/ them. found book deal in which 55% royalty, but spring 1989 21 donors put up 5K$ to promote a book newt, wife and freelancer wd write (she got $10k). did not sell well so everyone got tax writeoff COS limited  (1983?) 213. [1984 Harper Collins offered him 2.5 then 4.5 mil, owned by Murdoch) NG met w/ murdoch and his lobbyist to discuss NBC complaint (realchange.org) Coehlo also resigned, so 2 of 3 leaders gone, destroying "comity" 213.  in resign sp, wright said wanted  "mindless cannibalisam to end" [other bk newt says fishing exped got whale?]. kaiser says newt a hitman, but dems gave him ammo?

from? (lobby.txt

maybe So Damn Much Money

robert kaiser knopf 2009?

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The $5 million check that casino mogul Sheldon Adelson wrote to help his friend Newt Gingrich win his party's presidential nomination is expected to be followed by much more support aimed at helping the GOP's eventual winner, including several million dollars for a Karl Rove-created group.

Adelson’s contribution went to “Winning Our Future,” a super PAC that is supporting the former House Speaker for president, say GOP fundraisers familiar with the donation.

But fundraisers close to the billionaire say he will pour at least a few million dollars this year into the super PAC American Crossroads, or its affiliate Crossroads GPS, to help the GOP nominee — whether it is Gingrich or someone else.

Adelson, the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands, has been close to Rove since he was the top political guru to former President George W. Bush. Adelson wrote a seven-figure check in 2010 to the group’s nonprofit arm, Crossroads GPS, say fundraisers with ties to Adelson and Rove. The group is not required to reveal its donors.

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<a href="http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/01/09/7835/casino-mogul-s-5-million-check-pro-gingrich-group-harbinger-gop-help-come/?utm_source=iwatchnews&utm_medium=widgets&utm_campaign=huffpo-widget">http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/01/09/7835/casino-mogul-s-5-million-check-pro-gingrich-group-harbinger-gop-help-come/?utm_source=iwatchnews&utm_medium=widgets&utm_campaign=huffpo-widget</a>

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NEWT 2012: $13,903,105

INFOCISION $3,822,373

STRATEGIC MEDIA PLACEMENT INC. $2,699,087

CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING EXPERTS LLC $1,153,995

NATIONAL BALLOT ACCESS $624,639

TRANSAXT $502,280

MOBY DICK AIRWAYS, LTD $485,139

HIGH TECH WIN, LLC $475,000

SOUTHWEST PUBLISHING $389,759

CMDI $347,884

GORDON C. JAMES PUBLIC RELATIONS $306,269

MCKENNA LONG & ALDRIDGE, LLP $302,013

ADP $269,739

PATRIOT GROUP $266,105

ELAVON $224,851

EVENT STRATEGIES, INC. $213,060

VM MEDIA, INC. $210,250

GRIDIRON COMMUNICATIONS $188,803

CHAIN BRIDGE BANK $176,909

WILLAMETTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES $163,539

VICTORY PHONES $159,058

NOISEWORKS MEDIA $143,683

AIR CHARTER TEAM, INC. $114,752

FUZEBOX LLC $110,000

THE FARWELL GROUP $100,500

Integram $99,980

American Express $88,593

PREMIERE TRANSPORTATION $55,420

The Polling Company $44,488

Republican Party of Iowa $40,350

Spectrum Marketing Co. $38,944

Google $35,000

PIRYX, INC. $17,157

FEDEX $16,133

Verizon Wireless $14,196

Enterprise $3,115

Marriott $40

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Newt's loot: Billionaire commits $20M

By: Maggie Haberman and Kenneth P. Vogel

December 15, 2011 01:49 PM EST

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Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is planning to direct $20 million to an outside group backing Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign, multiple sources told POLITICO — the first answer to urgent pleas from allies to the former speaker’s longtime billionaire supporters.

After leaving Congress, Gingrich cultivated a network of a few dozen über-wealthy backers who poured tens of millions of dollars into a network of groups that helped him maintain a foothold in politics. Now, operatives supporting his presidential campaign are asking those same donors to write fat checks to a suite of new super PACs they hope can spend big on ads to offset Gingrich campaign fundraising that had lagged behind his rivals’.

Adelson is considered the prized get for pro-Gingrich groups.

Adelson spokesman Ron Reese denied the $20 million commitment, saying “there’s no truth to any speculation that Mr. Adelson has made a commitment to either contribute or raise this amount of money.”

Reese declined to comment on potential future political giving by Adelson on behalf of Gingrich or in general, saying Adelson doesn’t talk about his political activities. Many major donors prefer to keep their activity low-profile, though federal rules require super PACs to disclose their donors in the coming weeks.

Sources with direct knowledge of the $20 million figure, who requested anonymity, told POLITICO that Adelson planned to cut a check to one of the PACs as soon as this week.

A major contribution from Adelson would enable the recipient group to start airing ads in Iowa to counter a weeklong anti-Gingrich on-air assault that is already taking a toll on his front-runner status in the Hawkeye State, according to private and public polling.

Adelson and his wife Miriam Adelson each contributed the $2,500 maximum to Gingrich’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in August. But there weren’t many options for them and other wealthy donors looking to give more to help Gingrich through the summer, when his campaign was <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56630.html" target="_blank">on life support</a>.

That changed as Gingrich’s campaign started surging last month, prompting his allies to create new outside groups known as super PACs that can accept unlimited funds to air ads supporting him.

Perhaps the leading player in the pro-Gingrich super PAC space, <a href="http://www.winningourfuture.com/about" target="blank">Winning Our Future</a>, was unveiled this week and is being headed by Becky Burkett, who was the lead fundraiser for Gingrich’s main political vehicle over the past few years, the <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48864.html" target="blank">fundraising juggernaut</a> American Solutions for Winning the Future.

That group raised $54 million — including $7.7 million from Adelson — between its late 2006 creation and its <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62161.html" target="blank">collapse </a>this year after Gingrich <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/50874.html" target="blank">left it</a> to run for president, according to Internal Revenue Service filings.

On Tuesday, Burkett declined to detail her relationship with Adelson, telling POLITICO, “I certainly know him through American Solutions,” but added, “I have not spoken to him” about Winning Our Future.

Charlie Smith, who runs another new pro-Gingrich super PAC called <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/pdf/304/11030690304/11030690304.pdf" target="_blank">Solutions 2012</a>, said the group’s fundraiser, Jerry Seppala, “does have a relationship with Sheldon,” but stressed he “won’t comment on our contacts with any specific donor or whether anyone particular person has given.”

And Craig Bachler, an official at a third super PAC called <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/pdf/178/11030692178/11030692178.pdf" target="_blank">Spirit of America Solutions</a> that is generally supportive of — but does not intend to endorse — Gingrich, also declined to discuss Adelson specifically. But he did add suggestively that his group got “a major commitment out of Nevada that the individual is big into donating money to Newt and I think is sharing the wealth with not just one PAC.”

While Burkett’s group is expected to emerge as the biggest pro-Gingrich super PAC, it’s unclear to which super PAC Adelson made the $20 million planned commitment, or how much money he intended to give directly versus raise through his network.

But a former official at one of Gingrich’s groups who is not involved in the presidential campaign or super PACs said that if Adelson “does end up giving big, he could really make a significant impact on this election.”

The focus on Adelson underscores the increasing influence of megadonors in the new campaign finance environment as well as the promise and challenges in quickly mounting a robust outside effort to support Gingrich.

A competition between the pro-Gingrich groups for cash and attention could confuse donors and dilute the potential impact of each, and leave them at a disadvantage to the outside efforts boosting Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, which quickly coalesced around single, preferred super PACs.

“We’re really in hyper speed now with these super PACs where, in a universe of unlimited contributions, you can get seed money and be up and running with ads in a few days, particularly if a candidate gets hot like Newt Gingrich is now,” said Michael Toner, a former Federal Election Commission chairman. But there’s also “great potential for donor confusion, because [of] the sheer volume of these super PACs with names that are kind of similar,” warned Toner, who credited allies of Romney, Perry and President Barack Obama with quickly rallying behind a single <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53905.html" target="blank">respective super PAC</a> for <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0611/Romneys_PAC.html" target="blank">each candidate</a>.

“And that’s not easy to do” because of rules <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55911.html" target="_blank">barring campaigns from coordinating </a>with super PACs, said Toner, who represented former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s bid for the GOP nomination, which ended amid paltry fundraising and poll numbers. “A super PAC is probably more valuable to someone like Newt Gingrich because he doesn’t have the organizational and financial resources of some of the other top-tier candidates.”

Yet many of Gingrich’s wealthy patrons aligned themselves with his rivals for the GOP presidential nomination when his campaign struggled earlier this year.

A POLITICO analysis of FEC and IRS filings found that of the 16 donors who contributed $100,000 or more to American Solutions and also gave to a 2012 GOP presidential campaign or campaigns, only six gave to Gingrich, including Adelson.

To be sure, the analysis only covers presidential campaign donations through the end of September, weeks before Gingrich’s campaign began the <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1211/69953.html" target="blank">unlikely surge</a> that has landed him at the <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2011/12/rick-perry-mitt-romney-internals-show-newt-slippage-107461.html" target="blank">top of the polls</a>.

But his main rival, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, and the super PAC supporting him, Restore Our Future, also have been working to win support from megadonors and have secured backing from some who had given big to American Solutions for Winning the Future.

For instance, real estate magnate Harlan Crow, whose company had given $100,000 to Gingrich’s group, this month threw a <a href="http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/12/harlan-crow-and-other-huge-per.html" target="_blank">major fundraiser</a> at his Dallas mansion for Romney.

Crow, who had been a longtime donor to Texas Gov. Perry’s gubernatorial campaigns and had given to the presidential campaigns of former Govs. Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman of Utah, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204397704577072730835965456.html" target="_blank">told The Wall Street Journal</a> that “many folks who supported [Perry’s presidential campaign] are now reconsidering.”

There also are a handful of megadonors who cut big checks to American Solutions but have limited their disclosed presidential contributions to Romney’s campaign, including the recently deceased Cincinnati billionaire Carl Lindner Jr., who along with his widow Edyth Lindner had donated $690,000 to the Gingrich group.

Other major Newt World donors who have either given to, or signaled support for, Romney include personal investing billionaire Charles Schwab (who gave $200,000 to American Solutions), produce wholesaler Robert Castellini ($170,000), Johnson & Johnson heir Robert Wood Johnson IV ($75,000), New York finance titan <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/57692.html" target="_blank">John Whitehead</a> ($30,000), Florida mall developer Mel Sembler ($30,000) and Home Depot investor Ken Langone ($25,000).

Perry, too, has made some headway with major Gingrich donors, getting contributions from the executives of Oklahoma’s Devon Energy (which had given $625,000 to American Solutions) and Houston’s Plains Exploration & Production Company ($200,000).

Of course, it’s difficult to gauge which donors will write big checks to super PACs. So far, only one major presidential super PAC has disclosed donations — the pro-Romney Restore Our Future, which raised <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60329.html" target="_blank">$12.2 million</a> in the first half of the year entirely from 90 high-dollar contributors.

The major pro-Perry super PAC, Make Us Great Again, had set a <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/60329.html" target="_blank">$55 million</a> budget but initially looked like it might have to fight for big donor cash with at least five other pro-Perry super PACs.

The groups swiped at one another as Perry prepared to enter the race, but Make Us Great Again asserted its place as the dominant outside group in an August email from its founders, including a close Perry confidant named Mike Toomey.

“Many other groups are coming forward to draft and support the governor,” wrote Toomey and his co-founders. “Our advice is to avoid any other group claiming to be ‘the’ pro-Perry independent effort and, when the timing is right, to support Make Us Great Again.”

There won’t be any official signal like that from Newt World, predicted the former official from a Gingrich group, as well as the ex-Gingrich aide. In separate interviews, each said they expected a competition between the various groups, but gave an edge to Winning Our Future, thanks to Burkett’s ties to major donors to American Solutions for Winning the Future.

“I don’t think there will be a group that is ‘crowned’ to be the ‘official’ group. That will come with whichever group can prove their ability to fundraise and be successful,” said the ex-aide, asserting “there is plenty of money to be raised for everyone.”

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rfk2:

1/95 Tom Delay invites 350 lobbyists to dismantle regs 30  learned from watt disaster PR,

so plant tree foto op and used free mkt rhet to hide; Luntz did PR (wrote Cont for

Am) snuck riders on key bills, "supermandate" regulatory reform, ~ unfunded

mandates etc but PIRG etc caught them, 1 mil signatures, so mod gop opposed; after

gov't shutdown newt lost public support. TD: we lost debate on envir"

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Lowdown: lobby for astraZeneca, Blue Cross, the ethanol industry, Freddie Mac, IBM, Microsoft, and UPS.

<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/27/newt-gingrich-lobbyist/">http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/27/newt-gingrich-lobbyist/</a>

<h2 class="title noprint"><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/23/newt-api-share/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to 'Exclusive: Newt Gingrich ‘Sharing Resources, Coordinating Efforts’ With Oil Lobby (Updated)'">Exclusive: Newt Gingrich ‘Sharing Resources, Coordinating Efforts’ With Oil Lobby (Updated)</a></h2>

LEE FANG

Newt Gingrich, through his political attack group “American Solutions for Winning the Future” (ASWF)

<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/02/american-solutions-for-winning-the-future.html">http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/02/american-solutions-for-winning-the-future.html</a>

, has organized tea party protests, conservative legislative efforts, and is best known for driving the Republican “<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-aswf-pioneers/">Drill Here, Drill Now</a>” campaign in 2008. Until now, the only known financial backers of ASWF were the <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/07/29/newt-aswf-billionaires/">donors</a> disclosed on his 527 IRS forms, like <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/07/30/aswf-peabody-coal-cash/">Peabody Coal</a> and investor <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32260.html">Rex Sinquefield</a>. Gingrich — who once believed in climate change science and believed the U.S. must act “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtv1MuYTdZs">urgently</a>” to reduce carbon emissions — has moved far to the right on environmental issues, and has allied himself with polluters fighting tooth and nail <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/04/gingrichs-many-cap-and-trade-distortions.php">against</a> clean energy reform.

While his support from <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/07/30/aswf-peabody-coal-cash/">King Coal</a> is widely known, new revelations reveal that Gingrich has established direct support from the oil lobby. The American Petroleum Institute (API) is the umbrella trade association for the oil industry, lobbying <a href="http://www.api.org/resources/members/index.cfm">on behalf of</a> corporations like ExxonMobil and Chevron, as well as for refineries and pipeline companies. In addition to spending <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?lname=American+Petroleum+Institute&year=2009">millions</a> on political lobbying, API has blanketed the country with pro-oil drilling <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200906230001">ads</a> and has coordinated “<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/13/leak-big-oil-clean-energy/">grassroots</a>” rallies to oppose clean energy reform.

At CPAC — which was <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/19/cpac-oil-sponsor/">sponsored</a> in part by API — ThinkProgress spoke to API representative André Carter at his organization’s <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/API_booth_at_CPAC.JPG">booth</a> at the convention. Carter is an account executive at Edelman, the K Street public relations firm that manages API. Carter told ThinkProgress that API has been “sharing resources, coordinating efforts” with Gingrich’s ASWF group for some time. When contacted for comment, API spokesman Bill Bush disputed that API was “working in any way” with Gingrich.

ASWF spokesman R.C. Hammond also denied Carter’s comments, telling ThinkProgress that “there’s no record of us working together.” But ThinkProgress interviewed Gingrich yesterday at an event he was hosting at the press club, where he told us that indeed he has been working with API since the “<a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-aswf-pioneers/">Drill Here, Drill Now</a>” campaign:

TP: But do you know how long you guys have been working with API? I’m trying to chart it.

GINGRICH: I have no idea. I think it came after the Drill Here, Drill Now campaign.

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Listen here:

Gingrich postures as a man dedicated to simply serving the “key concerns of the <a href="http://www.americansolutions.com/polling/2009/04/platform-of-the-american-people.php">American People</a>.” But through ASWF, his <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/house/52259-gop-leaders-expect-cap-and-trade-8-to-shun-health-bill">constant</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/us/politics/15cantor.html">strategy sessions</a> with GOP lawmakers, and his ubiquitous punditry, Gingrich is actually advancing the narrow interests of corporations, in this case the oil industry. Given API’s attempt to conceal its relationship with ASWF, the oil industry understands they need ostensibly independent ambassadors like Gingrich to build public support for their policies.

As the Wonk Room has <a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/02/18/lobbyist-meetings/">detailed</a>, GOP politicians fighting reform have relied heavily on corporate lobbyists to orchestrate their efforts. Gingrich touts himself as an author, a “futurist,” a conservative thinker. Anything but a lobbyist. Considering the fact Gingrich lobbies lawmakers on policy, and does so in concert with industry that would benefit from his lobbying, in many ways Gingrich is essentially an unregistered lobbyist.

<div class="post_update" align="left">Update Jane Van Ryan, a senior communication manager at API, disputed the accuracy of our post. She e-mailed ThinkProgress the following statement tonight: "API does not have, and has never had, a relationship with Newt Gingrich’s group. We do not share resources or coordinate efforts."</div>

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On any given day, the former Speaker of the House can be found on a chartered jet headed to Iowa to train future GOP candidates through his American Solutions group, or in Phoenix discussing ways to lower health-care costs with drug makers through his for-profit Center for Health Transformation. He might also be in Philadelphia, narrating a film produced by Gingrich Productions, or in Texas, reaching out to conservative Latino leaders through his bilingual news and commentary website, the Americano.

Now, as Mr. Gingrich prepares to launch a run for president as early as this week, this network of advocacy and for-profit groups is providing a publicity and policy machine without parallel among his likely Republican rivals, few of whom have stirred excitement among donors and activists.

His network has amassed more than 1.7 million voter and donor contacts and raised $32 million between 2009 and 2010—more than all his potential 2012 rivals combined.

...

Nowhere have Mr. Gingrich and his groups invested more heavily than in the key state of Iowa, figuring a win in February's first-in-the-nation caucuses could catapult him to the top ranks in the Republican nomination fight.

Wearing an array of organizational hats, he has met repeatedly with pastors, trained local candidates, consulted with doctors on his proposed health-care innovations and met with local refiners to tout ethanol. After raising money through one of his groups, Mr. Gingrich funneled $150,000 in seed money to a successful campaign last fall to oust three Iowa Supreme Court judges who supported gay marriage...

A longtime domestic-policy entrepreneur, he founded his Center for Health Transformation in 2003. The group now includes big drug makers such as <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=AZN" class="companyRollover link11unvisited">AstraZeneca</a> PLC and top insurers, such as BlueCross BlueShield Association, who pay as much as $200,000 in membership fees. In return, they get access to Mr. Gingrich, interaction with other group members, and marketing and research support.

In 2006, Mr. Gingrich started the group American Solutions for Winning the Future, with a $1 million donation from Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. The group allowed Mr. Gingrich to broaden his ambitions. It was billed as a centrist policy shop that would train local candidates and promote an array of pet causes, among them Social Security privatization and what Mr. Gingrich called "patriotic education," including mandatory annual public-school instruction on the Declaration of Independence.

In early 2007, along with his third wife, Callista, he launched Gingrich Productions to publish books and movies. In March 2009, just weeks before converting to Catholicism, he formed Renewing American Leadership, a nonprofit group designed "to bring moral leadership back to our nation." Six months later he created the Americano to target conservative Hispanics.

But it took nearly two years for his flagship group, American Solutions, to find a rallying cry—and hit fund-raising pay dirt. Both happened almost by fluke.

With oil prices soaring in the spring of 2008 and Democrats opposing expanded offshore drilling, Mr. Gingrich tossed off a line in a paid speech that May in Las Vegas. "Someone in this room ought to simply have a bumper sticker that says, 'Drill more, pay less,'" he told the Money Show conference, to a smattering of applause.

Backstage afterward, Mr. Gingrich decided to run with the idea himself, aides say. American Solutions launched an online petition campaign under the title, "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less." It got 100,000 signatures in a week, and more than a million in a month. Sen. John McCain made the slogan a core plank of his presidential campaign, and at the Republican nominating convention that September, it morphed into "Drill, Baby, Drill."

But more important for Mr. Gingrich were the cash and supporters the effort netted. His group ended up with email contacts for more than 1.3 million people. Contributions poured in from energy companies and private donors.

In the last election cycle, American Solutions raised $28.7 million, putting it third among all advocacy groups that are allowed to take unlimited donations. It was surpassed only by the Republican and Democratic governors' associations.

But the cash came at a cost. According to tax data filed with the Federal Election Commission and the Internal Revenue Service, American Solutions invested far more than any similar group to build its donor list. It spent more than $15.6 million in the last election—or 55% of the money it raised—on telemarketing and direct-mail appeals, according to federal campaign records.

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Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)

Former speaker of the House

Gingrich has been all over the map on climate. A few years ago, he endorsed cap-and-trade and called for climate action in an ad for an Al Gore group, but these days he sticks close to GOP orthodoxy.

On climate science: In 2007, Gingrich said, "the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon-loading of the atmosphere ... and do it urgently." And in a 2008 ad for Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection, he sat next to then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and said, "our country must take action to address climate change."

But he has since reversed course. In his 2010 book To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine, Gingrich decried "the doomsday theory of climate change," which he attributed to the "high-tax, big-bureaucracy, job-killing, and government-centralizing environmentalism of the Left."

And in a 2010 interview with Grist, he said, "It's an act of egotism for humans to think we're a primary source of climate change."

On climate policy: In 2007, Gingrich praised the cap-and-trade concept: "I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good. And frankly, it's something I would strongly support."

But in 2008, in his book Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less, he argued that cap-and-trade would "increase corruption." And in 2009 and 2010, he was a vocal opponent of cap-and-trade proposals in Congress, saying they were "an energy tax" that would "punish the American people" with higher energy costs and lost jobs. His group American Solutions for Winning the Future also made a big push to kill climate legislation.

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peter smith, GOPAC funder, paid for hit on BC Big l 118

blamed mom who killed 2 kids on demos, but she was actually really connected to gop, and her stepfather molested her for years 119

ng affair with staffer 119  dumped 2nd wife on phone, 1st gave papers while in hosp after cancer surgery 122

anti-clinton campaign gave newt control of congress thus he pledged to use subpoena power (hunt 174)

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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich</a>

Newton Leroy Gingrich (born June 17, 1943) is a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Neoconservative" title="Neoconservative" class="mw-redirect">neoconservative</a> politician who is best known as the Speaker of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._House_of_Representatives" title="U.S. House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">U.S. House of Representatives</a> from 1995 to 1999. As a co-author of the notorious 1994 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Contract_With_America" title="Contract With America" class="mw-redirect">Contract With America</a>, Gingrich was in the forefront of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican Party</a>'s success in the 1994 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Congress" title="Congress" class="mw-redirect">Congressional</a> elections, and was subsequently elected Speaker. After he returned to private life, Gingrich remained active in neoconservative politics, becoming a fellow at both the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute">American Enterprise Institute</a> (AEI)<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-0" title="">[1]</a> and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hoover_Institution" title="Hoover Institution" class="mw-redirect">Hoover Institution</a>,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a> two of the big guns in the neoconservative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Think_tank" title="Think tank" class="mw-redirect">think tank</a> world. He is reputed to be a member of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations">Council on Foreign Relations</a> and to have ties to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research" title="Manhattan Institute for Policy Research">Manhattan Institute for Policy Research</a>.

Gingrich also founded the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Gingrich_Group" title="Gingrich Group">Gingrich Group</a>, which, according to his personal website,<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a> is "a communications and consulting firm that specializes in transformational change", and the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Health_Transformation" title="Center for Health Transformation">Center for Health Transformation</a>, a Gingrich Group project launched in 2003.

Gingrich, a "well-paid broker of ideas and influence in the field of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Health_care" title="Health care" class="mw-redirect">health care</a> policy. ... has become probably the most visible spokesman for a set of ideas about health care that is gaining support in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">Bush administration</a> and in business," the New York Times said in January 2005.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a>

With the election of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a>, Newt Gingrich was tapped to serve on the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pentagon" title="Pentagon">Pentagon</a>’s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Defense_Policy_Board" title="Defense Policy Board" class="mw-redirect">Defense Policy Board</a>, a think tank for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.Department_of_Defense" title="U.S. Department of Defense">U.S. Department of Defense</a> dominated by neoconservatives and criticized because of the perceived conflicts of interests of its members, many of whom have strong ties to defense contractors that could benefit from sensitive information gleaned at policy board meetings. Gingrich is one of only eight Hoover fellows with seats on the 31-member board.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#Affiliations">1 Affiliations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#.22Following_Newt.27s_Money.22">2 "Following Newt's Money"</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#War_in_Iraq_as_WWIII.3F">3.1 War in Iraq as WWIII?</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#Related_SourceWatch_articles">5.1 Related SourceWatch articles</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#References">5.2 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#Articles_by_Newt_Gingrich">5.3 Articles by Newt Gingrich</a></li>

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<li>Member, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Citizens_for_the_Republic" title="Citizens for the Republic">Citizens for the Republic</a></li>

<li>Distinguished Advisor, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_the_Defense_of_Democracies" title="Foundation for the Defense of Democracies">Foundation for the Defense of Democracies</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a></li>

<li>Commissioner, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.Commission_on_National_Security/21st_Century/_Hart-Rudman_Commission" title="U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century / Hart-Rudman Commission" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century / Hart-Rudman Commission</a></li>

<li>Advisory Board Member, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Common_Good" title="Common Good">Common Good</a></li>

<li>Member, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Task_Force_on_the_United_Nations" title="Task Force on the United Nations">Task Force on the United Nations</a></li>

<li>Honorary Chairman, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NanoBusiness_Alliance&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="NanoBusiness Alliance (page does not exist)">NanoBusiness Alliance</a><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a></li>

<li>Founder, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Health_Transformation" title="Center for Health Transformation">Center for Health Transformation</a></li>

<li>Co-founder, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative_Opportunity_Society&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative Opportunity Society (page does not exist)">Conservative Opportunity Society</a></li>

<li>Founding Board, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Project_Vote_Smart" title="Project Vote Smart">Project Vote Smart</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a></li>

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<h2>"Following Newt's Money"</h2>

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<dd>"I raised so much money over the years, from so many different people that ... I don't owe anyone."—Newt Gingrich, quoted by MotherJones.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-Mojo-9" title="">[10]</a></dd>

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"Far from owing no one, House Speaker Newt Gingrich has built his power base through a series of dubious transactions that look like political paybacks. At the center of Newt's political machine is <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GOPAC" title="GOPAC">GOPAC</a>, which has raised and spent more than $8 million since 1991 while skirting the federal election laws governing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PAC" title="PAC" class="mw-redirect">PACs</a> to avoid naming its donors."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-Mojo-9" title="">[10]</a>

In August 2010, Salon.com released their findings on who is funding Gingrich's primary political committee, a 527 group called <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Solutions_for_Winning_the_Future" title="American Solutions for Winning the Future">American Solutions for Winning the Future</a>. Salon found a significant chunk of the group's funding comes from oil and gas and coal companies, according to the its IRS filings. American Solutions has run national TV ads opposing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cap-and-trade" title="Cap-and-trade" class="mw-redirect">cap-and-trade</a> bills.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-je-10" title="">[11]</a>

According to Salon, American Solutions has taken in over $20 million as of the 2010 election cycle. Here are some of the group's biggest funders:<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-je-10" title="">[11]</a>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Electric_Power" title="American Electric Power">American Electric Power</a>: CEO Michael Morris of the Ohio-based power company gave $100,000 in 2009. Along with electricity, the company operates the nation's largest power transmission network, operating over much of the East Coast and Midwest.</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arch_Coal" title="Arch Coal">Arch Coal</a>: Based in St. Louis, Arch boasts it provides 16 percent of America's coal supply from 11 mining complexes around the country, making it the second largest coal producer in the country. It gave Gingrich $100,000.</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Devon_Energy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Devon Energy (page does not exist)">Devon Energy</a>: An Oklahoma-based oil and gas production company that gave American Solutions $250,000.</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Plains_Exploration_and_Production&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plains Exploration and Production (page does not exist)">Plains Exploration and Production</a>: A Houston-based oil and gas company that operates in the Gulf gave $100,000.</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Workforce_Fairness_Institute" title="Workforce Fairness Institute">Workforce Fairness Institute</a>: A Washington, D.C.-based anti-union pressure group that gave $150,000 to Gingrich's organization this cycle. Its website says it is "funded by and advocates on behalf of business owners who enjoy good working relationships with their employees, and would like to maintain those good relationships without the unfair interference of government bureaucrats, union organizers and special interests." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_McKinnon" title="Mark McKinnon">Mark McKinnon</a>, longtime GOP operative and Bush aide, has been a spokesman for the institute.</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hubbard_Broadcasting" title="Hubbard Broadcasting">Hubbard Broadcasting</a>: <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stanley_Hubbard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stanley Hubbard (page does not exist)">Stanley Hubbard</a>, a billionaire GOP donor from Minnesota, gave Gingrich's group $100,000. He owns radio and TV stations in several states.</li>

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"[Gingrich's] basic point: where are the Iraqi faces in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=New_Iraq" title="New Iraq">New Iraq</a>? 'Americans can't win in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>,' he says. 'Only Iraqis can win in Iraq'.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-11" title="">[12]</a>

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<dd>"Gingrich argues that the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bush_administration" title="Bush administration">Bush administration</a> has been putting far too much emphasis on a military solution and slighting the political element. 'The real key here is not how many enemy do I kill. The real key is how many allies do I grow,' he says. 'And that is a very important metric that they just don't get.' He contends that the civilian-run <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Coalition_Provisional_Authority" title="Coalition Provisional Authority">CPA</a> is fairly isolated and powerless, hunkered down inside its bunker in Baghdad. The military has the money and the daily contact with the locals. But it's using the same tactics in a guerrilla struggle that led to defeat in Vietnam."</dd>

</dl>

<dl>

<dd>"Gingrich faults the Americans for not quickly establishing some sort of Iraqi government, however imperfect. 'The idea that we are going to have a corruption-free, pristine, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=League_of_Women_Voters" title="League of Women Voters">League of Women Voters</a> government in Iraq on Tuesday is beyond naivete,' he scoffs. 'It is a self-destructive fantasy'".</dd>

</dl>

<h3>War in Iraq as WWIII?</h3>

In July 2006, Bill Berkowitz reported for Inter Press Service: "For years, U.S. neoconservatives have been ratcheting up the rhetoric -- mostly in small gatherings and on partisan web sites -- claiming that <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terrorist" title="Terrorist">terrorist</a> activities around the world constituted the initial stages of a new world war. But during the past week or so ... Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" class="mw-redirect">United States House of Representatives</a>, is using any platform available to him to convince the public that the U.S. is engaged in World War III. ... While Gingrich's media tour definitely thrust him back into the national political spotlight, it may have also given the public a sneak peek into the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican Party</a>'s political/marketing strategy for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S._congressional_elections_in_2006" title="U.S. congressional elections in 2006" class="mw-redirect">November congressional elections</a>: If the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=War_on_terrorism" title="War on terrorism">war on terrorism</a> doesn't create a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fear" title="Fear">fearful</a> enough climate amongst voters, why not ratchet it up by mentioning the spectre of a World War III?" ... <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Stauber" title="John Stauber">John Stauber</a>, co-author of the book, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Best_War_Ever" title="The Best War Ever">The Best War Ever</a>, told IPS "'You've got to call it something and five years after <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=9/11" title="9/11" class="mw-redirect">9/11</a> with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Osama_bin_Laden" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama</a> [bin Laden] still roaming free and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> an American quagmire, and the Republican Party in danger of losing control of Congress, this ploy makes marketing sense.'"<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_note-12" title="">[13]</a>

<h2>Contact information</h2>

Gingrich Communications

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URL: <a href="http://www.gingrichgroup.com/" class="external free" title="http://www.gingrichgroup.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gingrichgroup.com/</a>

URL (American Solutions): <a href="http://www.americansolutions.com/default.aspx" class="external free" title="http://www.americansolutions.com/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.americansolutions.com/default.aspx</a>

URL (Winning the Future): <a href="http://www.winningthefuture.net/" class="external free" title="http://www.winningthefuture.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.winningthefuture.net/</a>

<h2>Resources</h2>

<h3>Related SourceWatch articles</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Operation_Iraqi_Freedom:_Military_and_Political_Dissent" title="Operation Iraqi Freedom: Military and Political Dissent" class="mw-redirect">Operation Iraqi Freedom: Military and Political Dissent</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Randy_Evans" title="Randy Evans">Randy Evans</a></li>

</ul>

<h3>References</h3>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.20/scholar.asp" class="external text" title="http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.20/scholar.asp" rel="nofollow">Scholars: Newt Gingrich, Senior Fellow,</a> American Enterprise Institute.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/99summer/newt.html" class="external text" title="http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/99summer/newt.html" rel="nofollow">"Newt Gingrich appointed distinguished visiting fellow,"</a> Hoover Institution Newsletter, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>, Summer 1999.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.hoover.org/bios/gingrich.html" class="external text" title="http://www.hoover.org/bios/gingrich.html" rel="nofollow">Bio: Newt Gingrich,</a> Hoover Institution.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> Steve Lohr, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/business/yourmoney/16newt.html" class="external text" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/business/yourmoney/16newt.html" rel="nofollow">"Health Care's Unlikely Surgeon,"</a> New York Times, January 16, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> This <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Public_Integrity" title="Center for Public Integrity">Center for Public Integrity</a> <a href="http://www.publici.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=513&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0" class="external text" title="http://www.publici.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=513&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0" rel="nofollow">report link</a> is no longer active.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/biographies/biographies_show.htm?attrib_id=7518" class="external text" title="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/biographies/biographies_show.htm?attrib_id=7518" rel="nofollow">Biographies: Newt Gingrich, Distinguished Advisor,</a> Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://nanobusiness.org/info/about/advisoryBoard" class="external text" title="http://nanobusiness.org/info/about/advisoryBoard" rel="nofollow">About Advisory Board,</a> NanoBusiness Alliance.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-8" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.votesmart.org/founding_board.php" class="external text" title="http://www.votesmart.org/founding_board.php" rel="nofollow">Project Vote Smart's Founding & Executive Board Member</a>, Project Vote Smart, accessed November 12, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-Mojo-9">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-Mojo_9-0" title="">10.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-Mojo_9-1" title="">10.1</a> <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/coinop_congress/eye_on_newt/" class="external text" title="http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/coinop_congress/eye_on_newt/" rel="nofollow">"Following Newt's Money,"</a> MotherJones, undated.</li>

<li id="cite_note-je-10">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-je_10-0" title="">11.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-je_10-1" title="">11.1</a> Justin Elliott, <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/10/whos_giving_to_newt_gingrich/" class="external text" title="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/08/10/whos_giving_to_newt_gingrich/" rel="nofollow">"Who's funding Newt Gingrich?"</a> Salon, August 10, 2010.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-11" title="">↑</a> John Barry. <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/1002188.asp?0cv=CB20" class="external text" title="http://www.msnbc.com/news/1002188.asp?0cv=CB20" rel="nofollow">"Dissent in the Bunker. Newt Gingrich, a quiet Rumsfeld confidant, thinks the U.S. went 'off a cliff' in Iraq,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a>/MSNBC, December 15, 2003.</li>

<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Newt_Gingrich#cite_ref-12" title="">↑</a> Bill Berkowitz, <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34039" class="external text" title="http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34039" rel="nofollow">"Bringing on "World War III,"</a> Inter Press Service, July 20, 2006.</li>

</ol>

<h3>Articles by Newt Gingrich</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22543" class="external text" title="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22543" rel="nofollow">"Iranian Free Speech: Only in America; and Learning From the World That Fails,"</a> Human Events Online, September 25, 2007.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22654" class="external text" title="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22654" rel="nofollow">"Why I Decided Not to Run For President,"</a> Human Events Online, October 1, 2007.</li>

</ul>

<h3>External articles</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/" class="external text" title="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/" rel="nofollow">"The Long March of Newt Gingrich,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a> Frontline, January 1996.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100453" class="external text" title="http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100453" rel="nofollow">Joe Conason and Murray Waas,</a> <a href="http://www.observer.com/1998/gingrich-money-man-peter-smith-helped-david-brock-sock-clinton" class="external text" title="http://www.observer.com/1998/gingrich-money-man-peter-smith-helped-david-brock-sock-clinton" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich Money Man Helped Brock Sock Clinton,"</a> <a href="http://www.observer.com/author/murray-waas/" class="external text" title="http://www.observer.com/author/murray-waas/" rel="nofollow">New York Observer,</a> March 28, 1998.</li>

<li>Stephen Talbot, <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/08/28news.html" class="external text" title="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/08/28news.html" rel="nofollow">"Newt's glass house. Gingrich's reluctance to stone Clinton for adultery -- or Gore for campaign finance violations -- is not motivated by Christian compassion,"</a> Salon, August 28, 1998.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Robert Sheer, <a href="http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/99_columns/081799.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/99_columns/081799.htm" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich: Do as I Say, Not as I Do,"</a> Los Angeles Times (RobertSheer.com), August 17, 1999.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Corn" title="David Corn">David Corn</a>, <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/11/24/gingrich/print.html" class="external text" title="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/11/24/gingrich/print.html" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich vs. Gingrich. Why has the former speaker of the House chosen to let his dirty linen be brought out for all to see?"</a> Salon, November 24, 1999.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_newtgingrich.html" class="external text" title="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_newtgingrich.html" rel="nofollow">"Commanding Heights,"</a> Interview with Newt Gingrich, PBS, Spring 2001.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frank_J._Gaffney" title="Frank J. Gaffney" class="mw-redirect">Frank J. Gaffney</a>, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/gaffney/gaffney042303.asp" class="external text" title="http://www.nationalreview.com/gaffney/gaffney042303.asp" rel="nofollow">"Speaking Truth to Power: Newt Gingrich on the State Department,"</a> National Review Online, April 23, 2003. Neocon Gaffney, the president of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Security_Policy" title="Center for Security Policy">Center for Security Policy</a>, praises Newt Gingrich.</li>

<li>Jonathan E. Kaplan. <a href="http://www.thehill.com/news/043003/gingrich.aspx" class="external text" title="http://www.thehill.com/news/043003/gingrich.aspx" rel="nofollow">"Did Gingrich get nod for AEI speech?"</a> The Hill, April 30, 2003.</li>

<li>John Barry and Evan Thomas, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3660761/" class="external text" title="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3660761/" rel="nofollow">"Dissent in the Bunker. Newt Gingrich, a quiet Rumsfeld confidant, thinks the U.S. went ‘off a cliff’ in Iraq,"</a> Newsweek/MSNBC, December 15, 2003 (issue).</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Raymond Hernandez, <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/13/news/clinton.php" class="external text" title="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/13/news/clinton.php" rel="nofollow">"New odd couple: Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich,"</a> International Herald Tribune, May 14, 2005.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Steve Benen, <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0607.benen.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0607.benen.html" rel="nofollow">"High Infidelity. What if three admitted adulterers run for president and no one cares?"</a> Washington Monthly, July/August 2006.</li>

<li>Jim Lobe, <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HI14Aa02.html" class="external text" title="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HI14Aa02.html" rel="nofollow">"Neo-con favorite declares World War III,"</a> Asia Times, September 14, 2006.</li>

<li><a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200610010003" class="external text" title="http://mediamatters.org/items/200610010003" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich: House GOP would have 'been accused of gay bashing' if it 'overly aggressively reacted' to Foley's emails in 2005,"</a> Media Matters for America, October 1, 2006.</li>

<li>Nina Easton, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/20/magazines/fortune/newt.fortune/index.htm" class="external text" title="http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/20/magazines/fortune/newt.fortune/index.htm" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich '08: The stealth candidate. The controversial former House Speaker seems to throw his hat in the ring as a GOP presidential candidate, and promises that health care reform will be the big issue,"</a> Fortune/CNN, November 21, 2006.</li>

<li>John Aravosis, <a href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/gingrich-we-must-restrict-free-speech.html" class="external text" title="http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/gingrich-we-must-restrict-free-speech.html" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich: We must restrict free speech online to stop terrorists from destroying an American city,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AMERICAblog" title="AMERICAblog">AMERICAblog</a>, November 28, 2006.</li>

<li>Bop Cesca, <a href="http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=9434" class="external text" title="http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=9434" rel="nofollow">"'Step Away From The Constitution, Mr. Gingrich, And Put Your Hands Where We Can See Them',"</a> The Huffington Post (Free Internet Press), November 28, 2006.</li>

<li>Josh Gerstein, <a href="http://www.nysun.com/article/44302" class="external text" title="http://www.nysun.com/article/44302" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich: Free Speech Should Be Curtailed To Fight Terrorism,"</a> New York Sun, November 29, 2006.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Keith_Olbermann" title="Keith Olbermann">Keith Olbermann</a>, <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=qfwthwqVyGE" class="external text" title="http://youtube.com/watch?v=qfwthwqVyGE" rel="nofollow">"Olbermann's Special Comment on Gingrich,"</a> MSNBC (posted on YouTube), November 30, 2006.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.observer.com/author/murray-waas/" class="external text" title="http://www.observer.com/author/murray-waas/" rel="nofollow">Joe Conason,</a> <a href="http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=21792" class="external text" title="http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=21792" rel="nofollow">"Newt's free-speech ideas fail the laugh test. Gingrich unveils clumsy plan to stop 'jihadist' websites,"</a> The New York Observer (WorkingForChange.com), December 22, 2006.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Bill Berkowitz, <a href="http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=181" class="external text" title="http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=181" rel="nofollow">"Newt Gingrich's back door to the White House,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Transparency" title="Media Transparency">Media Transparency</a>, March 3, 2007.</li>

<li>Bill Scher, <a href="http://blog.ourfuture.org/newt_on_new_orleans_9th_ward_residents_a_failure_of_citizenship" class="external text" title="http://blog.ourfuture.org/newt_on_new_orleans_9th_ward_residents_a_failure_of_citizenship" rel="nofollow">"Newt on New Orlean's 9th Ward Residents: A 'Failure of Citizenship',"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campaign_for_America%27s_Future" title="Campaign for America's Future">Campaign for America's Future</a> Blog, March 3, 2007.</li>

<li><a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Gingrich_I_had_affair_during_Clinton_0308.html" class="external text" title="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Gingrich_I_had_affair_during_Clinton_0308.html" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich: I had affair during Clinton impeachment,"</a> The Raw Story, March 8, 2007.</li>

<li>Bill Schneider, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/09/gingrich.schneider/index.html" class="external text" title="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/09/gingrich.schneider/index.html" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich confession: Clearing the way for a 2008 run?"</a> CNN, March 9, 2007.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.laist.com/2007/03/09/somebody_buy_newt_gingrich_a_dictionary.php" class="external text" title="http://www.laist.com/2007/03/09/somebody_buy_newt_gingrich_a_dictionary.php" rel="nofollow">"Somebody Buy Newt Gingrich a Dictionary!"</a> LAist, March 9, 2007.</li>

<li>William M. Leogrande and Jim Lobe, <a href="http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12626" class="external text" title="http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12626" rel="nofollow">"Wright Redux. The flap over Nancy Pelosi's Syria trip echoes a 20-year-old fight with a previous Democratic House Speaker -- and is being driven by the same right-wing Republican hawks,"</a> The American Prospect, April 9, 2007. re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nancy_Pelosi" title="Nancy Pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Dick Cheney</a>, and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Elliott_Abrams" title="Elliott Abrams">Elliott Abrams</a></li>

<li>Matt Corley, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/22/gingrich-liberalism-vatech/" class="external text" title="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/22/gingrich-liberalism-vatech/" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich Blames Virginia Tech Tragedy On Liberalism,"</a> Think Progress, April 22, 2007.</li>

<li>Jonathan Martin, <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/5120.html" class="external text" title="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0707/5120.html" rel="nofollow">"Newt flirts with Thompson,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Politico" title="The Politico">The Politico</a>, July 25, 2007.</li>

<li><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/08/gingrich/index.html" class="external text" title="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/08/gingrich/index.html" rel="nofollow">"Modern road to White House 'verges on insane,' says Gingrich,"</a> CNN, August 8, 2007.</li>

<li>Joanna Walters, <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2170155,00.html" class="external text" title="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2170155,00.html" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich plots revenge on Clintons. Firebrand Republican threatens last-minute White House run to end primary 'chaos' - and stop Hillary,"</a> The Observer (UK), September 16, 2007.</li>

<li>Ellen, <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2007/09/18/newt_gingrich_agrees_bush_is_a_failed_presidency.php" class="external text" title="http://www.newshounds.us/2007/09/18/newt_gingrich_agrees_bush_is_a_failed_presidency.php" rel="nofollow">"Newt Gingrich Agrees Bush Is A Failed Presidency,"</a> News Hounds, September 18, 2007.</li>

<li><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Decision2008/story?id=3646752&page=1" class="external text" title="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Decision2008/story?id=3646752&page=1" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich Hints at '08 Run for President. Former House Speaker Says He Wants to Raise $30 Million in October,"</a> Good Morning America/ABC News, September 25, 2007.</li>

<li>Marie Therese, <a href="http://www.newshounds.us/2007/09/26/newt_gingrich_bush_should_blow_up_irans_natural_gas_insfrastructure.php" class="external text" title="http://www.newshounds.us/2007/09/26/newt_gingrich_bush_should_blow_up_irans_natural_gas_insfrastructure.php" rel="nofollow">"Newt Gingrich: Bush Should Blow Up Iran's Natural Gas Insfrastructure,"</a> News Hounds, September 26, 2007.</li>

<li>Bill Berkowitz, <a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=213" class="external text" title="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=213" rel="nofollow">"Newt Gingrich says if supporters pledge $30 million he'll enter presidential race"</a>, Media Transparency, September 29, 2007.</li>

<li>Michael D. Shear, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/29/AR2007092900907.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/29/AR2007092900907.html" rel="nofollow">"Gingrich Decides Against Presidential Bid,"</a> Washington Post, September 30, 2007.</li>

<li>Mary Bruce, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3671797&page=1" class="external text" title="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3671797&page=1" rel="nofollow">"Newt Gingrich Defends White House Pass as Legal Necessity. Former Speaker of the House Criticizes Campaign Finance Laws,"</a> ABC News, September 30, 2007.</li>

</ul>

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<li>Bill Berkowitz, <a href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=237" class="external text" title="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=237" rel="nofollow">"The ubiquitous Newt Gingrich slogs on:</a> Former House Speaker appeared in an Al Gore-sponsored anti-global warming ad with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but later backtracked", Media Transparency, May 19, 2008.</li>

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<h3>External resources</h3>

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<li><a href="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1203" class="external text" title="http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1203" rel="nofollow">Profile: Newt Gingrich,</a> Right Web.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2119,00.html" class="external text" title="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2119,00.html" rel="nofollow">Bio: Newt Gingrich,</a> Fox News, September 5, 2003.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=36" class="external text" title="http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=36" rel="nofollow">Author biography: Newt Gingrich,</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Globalist&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Globalist (page does not exist)">The Globalist</a>.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm" rel="nofollow">Newt Gingrich's Skeleton Closet,</a> RealChange.org.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.whereistand.com/NewtGingrich" class="external text" title="http://www.whereistand.com/NewtGingrich" rel="nofollow">Newt Gingrich's Opinions</a> at whereIstand.com</li>

<li><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/Newt_Gingrich.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.ontheissues.org/Newt_Gingrich.htm" rel="nofollow">Newt Gingrich,</a> On the Issues.</li>

<li><a href="http://www.heatison.org/pages/Speaker_Newt_Gingrich" class="external text" title="http://www.heatison.org/pages/Speaker_Newt_Gingrich" rel="nofollow">Newt Gingrich's statements</a> on <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_warming" title="Global warming">global warming</a>, The Heat Is On.</li>

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book deal:

<h4><a href="http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm#murdoch">The 1995 Murdoch Deal </a>--- <a href="http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm#1984"> The 1984 Book Deal</a></h4>

<h4><a id="murdoch" name="murdoch">The 1995 Murdoch Deal </a></h4>

You probably heard something about Newt's book scandal. He was offered first $2.5 million, then $4.5 million by Harper Collins, a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Fox TV network and newspapers and TV stations around the world. Murdoch has been having problems with a complaint by NBC that Fox is a foreign owned TV network, which is against US law.

In the past, Harper Collins has offered million dollar book contracts to several conservative politicians in countries where Murdoch was having regulatory trouble, including England (Margaret Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer) and China (Deng Xiaoping's daughter). A week after the initial offer, Newt met with Rupert Murdoch - and Murdoch's legislative lobbyist - to discuss politics, including the NBC complaint. As facts about the deal were made public, and even Republicans criticized him, Gingrich decided to give up the $4.5 million advance for a still-lucrative deal based on royalties.

Gingrich's story kept changing through the controversy. First, Newt's spokesman said that Murdoch knew nothing about Gingrich and the book deal. On Friday January 13, Newt's spokesman admitted that Murdoch actually met Newt on a park bench the week before the deal was made, but didn't talk about it. He also said he knew nothing about Murdoch's lobbyist being at their meeting. The next day, he admitted the lobbyist was there, but claimed he didn't say so because no one asked.

Newt also said repeatedly that the book wasn't his idea; that a literary agent named Lynn Chu had sought him out and proposed it. After Ms. Chu said that Gingrich's associate Jeff Eisenach called her first on Newt's behalf, Eisenach and Newt's spokesman admitted that was true.

<a id="1984" name="1984"> The 1984 Book Deal </a>Murdoch's book deal wasn't the first lucrative and controversial book deal Newt engineered. In 1983 he established a limited partnership in Atlanta called COS Limited, which pulled together about two dozen of his biggest campaign contributors to finance his book.

The former administrator of his congressional offices in Georgia, Dolores Adamson, resigned over the deal. "The manuscript was put together in the district office using office equipment," she said. "He would just come in and say 'This is what I want to do.' I would say, 'This is not ethical," but after a while he didn't listen." That office equipment, of course, was paid for by US taxpayers including you.

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The Republican Revolution, Revolution of '94 or Gingrich Revolution is what the media dubbed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a> (GOP) success in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,1994" title="United States elections, 1994">1994 U.S. midterm elections</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#cite_note-0">[1]</a> which resulted in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,1994" title="United States House of Representatives elections, 1994">a net gain of 54 seats</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,1994" title="United States Senate elections, 1994">a pickup of eight seats</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate</a>. The clear leader of the so-called revolution was Republican congressman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a>, who became <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House" title="Speaker of the House" class="mw-redirect">Speaker of the House</a> as a result of the victory. The day after the election, Democratic Senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Shelby" title="Richard Shelby">Richard Shelby</a> of Alabama changed parties, becoming a Republican.

The gains in seats in the mid-term election resulted in the Republicans gaining control of both the House and the Senate in January 1995. Republicans had not held the majority in the House for forty years, since the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty-third_United_States_Congress" title="Eighty-third United States Congress" class="mw-redirect">83rd Congress</a> (elected in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_election,_1952" title="United States House election, 1952" class="mw-redirect">1952</a>).

Large Republican gains were made in state houses as well when the GOP picked up twelve gubernatorial seats and 472 legislative seats. In so doing, it took control of 20 state legislatures from the Democrats. Prior to this, Republicans had not held the majority of governorships since 1972. In addition, this was the first time in 50 years that the GOP controlled a majority of state legislatures.

Discontent against the Democrats was foreshadowed by a string of elections after 1992, including the capture of the mayoralties of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York">New York</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> by the Republicans in 1993. In that same year, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Todd_Whitman" title="Christine Todd Whitman">Christine Todd Whitman</a> captured the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> governorship from the Democrats and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Schundler" title="Bret Schundler">Bret Schundler</a> became the first Republican mayor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City, New Jersey</a> that had been held by the Democratic Party since 1917.

Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen%28politician%29" title="George Allen (politician)" class="mw-redirect">George Allen</a> won the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> governorship. Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison" title="Kay Bailey Hutchison">Kay Bailey Hutchison</a> took a senate seat from the Democrats in Texas. Republicans <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lucas%28politician%29" title="Frank Lucas (politician)" class="mw-redirect">Frank Lucas</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Lewis" title="Ron Lewis">Ron Lewis</a> picked up two congressional seats from Democrats in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a> in May 1994.

<h2>Contents</h2>

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<ul>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#Ramifications">1 Ramifications</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#Subsequent_events">2 Subsequent events</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#Pickups">3 Pickups</a>

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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#Senate">3.1 Senate</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#House_of_Representatives">3.2 House of Representatives</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#Governorships">3.3 Governorships</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#References">4 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#External_links">5 External links</a></li>

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<h2>Ramifications</h2>

When the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/104th_United_States_Congress" title="104th United States Congress">104th United States Congress</a> convened in January 1995, House Republicans voted former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Whip" title="Minority Whip" class="mw-redirect">Minority Whip</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich" title="Newt Gingrich">Newt Gingrich</a> – the chief architect[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] of their victory and author of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America" title="Contract with America">Contract with America</a> – <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_%28politics%29" title="Speaker (politics)">Speaker of the House</a>, while the new senatorial Republican majority chose <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dole" title="Bob Dole">Bob Dole</a>, previously <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Minority_Leader" title="Senate Minority Leader" class="mw-redirect">Minority Leader</a>, as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Majority_Leader" title="Senate Majority Leader" class="mw-redirect">Majority Leader</a>. With their newfound power, Republicans pursued an ambitious agenda but were often forced to compromise with President Clinton, who wielded <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veto" title="Veto">veto</a> power.

The 1994 election also marked the end of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Coalition" title="Conservative Coalition" class="mw-redirect">Conservative Coalition</a>, a bipartisan coalition of conservative Republicans and Democrats (often referred to as "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boll_weevil%28politics%29" title="Boll weevil (politics)">boll weevil Democrats</a>" for their association with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.South" title="U.S. South" class="mw-redirect">U.S. South</a>), which had often managed to control Congressional outcomes since the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a> era.

<h2>Subsequent events</h2>

In the 1996, 1998, and 2000 elections, Republicans lost Congressional seats but still retained control of the House and, more narrowly, the Senate. After the 2000 election, the Senate was divided evenly between the parties, with Republicans retaining the right to organize the Senate due to the election of Dick Cheney as Vice President and ex officio presiding officer of the Senate.

The Senate shifted to control by the Democrats (though they technically were the plurality party as they were one short of a majority) after GOP senator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jeffords" title="Jim Jeffords">Jim Jeffords</a> changed party registration to "Independent" in June 2001, but later returned to Republican control after the November 2002 elections. In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2006" title="United States elections, 2006">2006 elections</a>, Democrats won both the House of Representatives (233 Democrats, 202 Republicans) and the Senate (49 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and 2 Independents <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucus" title="Caucus">caucusing</a> with the Democrats) as well as the majority of state governorships (28-22).

However, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2010" title="United States elections, 2010">in the 2010 elections</a>, in what was very similar to the 1994 elections, Republicans won back control of the House. The Senate narrowly remained with the Democrats. Republicans also won a majority of state governorships and State Legislatures.

<h2>Pickups</h2>

The 1994 elections ushered in a great number of Republican freshmen. For example, of the 230 Republican <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House</a> members of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/104th_Congress" title="104th Congress" class="mw-redirect">104th Congress</a>, almost a third (73; 32%) were new to the House.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#cite_note-amer-1">[2]</a> In the Senate, 11 of 54 (20%) Republicans were freshmen.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution#cite_note-amer-1">[2]</a>

<h3>Senate</h3>

(*) David Boren resigned to assume the presidency of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oklahoma" title="University of Oklahoma">University of Oklahoma</a>; Inhofe was elected to serve the remaining two years of the term.

§ Harlan Mathews was appointed to the seat as a caretaker following the resignation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President</a>-elect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore" title="Al Gore">Al Gore</a>; Thompson was elected to serve the remaining two years of the term.

<h3>House of Representatives</h3>

<table class="wikitable"><tbody><tr><th rowspan="1">Name</th><th rowspan="1">District</th><th rowspan="1">Predecessor</th><th rowspan="1">Predecessor's fate</th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Salmon" title="Matt Salmon">Matt Salmon</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Arizona's 1st congressional district">Arizona-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Coppersmith" title="Sam Coppersmith">Sam Coppersmith</a></td><td>Retired; Ran for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Senate</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.D.Hayworth" title="J. D. Hayworth">J. D. Hayworth</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Arizona's 6th congressional district">Arizona-6</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karan_English" title="Karan English">Karan English</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Riggs" title="Frank Riggs">Frank Riggs</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="California's 1st congressional district">California-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hamburg" title="Daniel Hamburg">Dan Hamburg</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Radanovich" title="George Radanovich">George Radanovich</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_19th_congressional_district" title="California's 19th congressional district">California-19</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H.Lehman" title="Richard H. Lehman">Richard Lehman</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Bilbray" title="Brian Bilbray">Brian Bilbray</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_49th_congressional_district" title="California's 49th congressional district">California-49</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Schenk" title="Lynn Schenk">Lynn Schenk</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Scarborough" title="Joe Scarborough">Joe Scarborough</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Florida's 1st congressional district">Florida-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Dewitt_Hutto" title="Earl Dewitt Hutto">Earl Hutto</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Weldon" title="Dave Weldon">Dave Weldon</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_15th_congressional_district" title="Florida's 15th congressional district">Florida-15</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bacchus" title="Jim Bacchus">Jim Bacchus</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Barr" title="Bob Barr">Bob Barr</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_7th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 7th congressional district">Georgia-7</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Darden" title="George Darden">Buddy Darden</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxby_Chambliss" title="Saxby Chambliss">Saxby Chambliss</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 8th congressional district">Georgia-8</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.Roy_Rowland" title="J. Roy Rowland">J. Roy Rowland</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Norwood" title="Charlie Norwood">Charlie Norwood</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia%27s_10th_congressional_district" title="Georgia's 10th congressional district">Georgia-10</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clete_Donald_Johnson,Jr." title="Clete Donald Johnson, Jr.">Don Johnson</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Chenoweth-Hage" title="Helen Chenoweth-Hage">Helen Chenoweth</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Idaho's 1st congressional district">Idaho-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_LaRocco" title="Larry LaRocco">Larry LaRocco</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Patrick_Flanagan" title="Michael Patrick Flanagan">Michael Flanagan</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="Illinois's 5th congressional district">Illinois-5</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Rostenkowski" title="Dan Rostenkowski">Dan Rostenkowski</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Weller" title="Jerry Weller">Jerry Weller</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%27s_11th_congressional_district" title="Illinois's 11th congressional district">Illinois-11</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E.Sangmeister" title="George E. Sangmeister">George Sangmeister</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M.McIntosh" title="David M. McIntosh">David McIntosh</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Indiana's 2nd congressional district">Indiana-2</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sharp%28American_politician%29" title="Philip Sharp (American politician)">Phil Sharp</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Souder" title="Mark Souder">Mark Souder</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Indiana's 4th congressional district">Indiana-4</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Long_Thompson" title="Jill Long Thompson">Jill Long Thompson</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hostettler" title="John Hostettler">John Hostettler</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Indiana's 8th congressional district">Indiana-8</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_McCloskey" title="Frank McCloskey">Frank McCloskey</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Ganske" title="Greg Ganske">Greg Ganske</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Iowa's 4th congressional district">Iowa-4</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Edward_Smith" title="Neal Edward Smith">Neal Smith</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback" title="Sam Brownback">Sam Brownback</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Kansas's 2nd congressional district">Kansas-2</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Slattery" title="Jim Slattery">Jim Slattery</a></td><td>Retired; Ran for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Kansas" title="Governor of Kansas">Governor</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Tiahrt" title="Todd Tiahrt">Todd Tiahrt</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Kansas's 4th congressional district">Kansas-4</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Glickman" title="Dan Glickman">Dan Glickman</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Whitfield" title="Ed Whitfield">Ed Whitfield</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Kentucky's 1st congressional district">Kentucky-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Barlow%28politician%29" title="Thomas Barlow (politician)" class="mw-redirect">Tom Barlow</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B.Longley,Jr." title="James B. Longley, Jr.">Jim Longley</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Maine's 1st congressional district">Maine-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews%28politician%29" title="Thomas Andrews (politician)">Tom Andrews</a></td><td>Retired; Ran for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Senate</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Chrysler" title="Dick Chrysler">Dick Chrysler</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Michigan's 8th congressional district">Michigan-8</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Robert_Carr" title="Milton Robert Carr">Bob Carr</a></td><td>Retired; Ran for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Senate</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Gutknecht" title="Gil Gutknecht">Gil Gutknecht</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Minnesota's 1st congressional district">Minnesota-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Penny" title="Tim Penny">Tim Penny</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wicker" title="Roger Wicker">Roger Wicker</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Mississippi's 1st congressional district">Mississippi-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_L.Whitten" title="Jamie L. Whitten">Jamie Whitten</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lynn_Christensen" title="Jon Lynn Christensen">Jon Christensen</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Nebraska's 2nd congressional district">Nebraska-2</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hoagland" title="Peter Hoagland">Peter Hoagland</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ensign" title="John Ensign">John Ensign</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Nevada's 1st congressional district">Nevada-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bilbray" title="James Bilbray">James Bilbray</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bass" title="Charles Bass">Charlie Bass</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district">New Hampshire-2</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Swett" title="Richard Swett">Dick Swett</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_LoBiondo" title="Frank LoBiondo">Frank LoBiondo</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="New Jersey's 2nd congressional district">New Jersey-2</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J.Hughes" title="William J. Hughes">Bill Hughes</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J.Martini" title="William J. Martini">Bill Martini</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="New Jersey's 8th congressional district">New Jersey-8</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Klein" title="Herbert Klein">Herb Klein</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Forbes" title="Michael Forbes">Michael Forbes</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="New York's 1st congressional district">New York-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_J.Hochbrueckner" title="George J. Hochbrueckner">George Hochbrueckner</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Funderburk" title="David Funderburk">David Funderburk</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="North Carolina's 2nd congressional district">North Carolina-2</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Valentine" title="Tim Valentine">Tim Valentine</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_B.Jones" title="Walter B. Jones" class="mw-redirect">Walter Jones</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="North Carolina's 3rd congressional district">North Carolina-3</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Lancaster" title="Martin Lancaster">Martin Lancaster</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Heineman" title="Fred Heineman">Fred Heineman</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="North Carolina's 4th congressional district">North Carolina-4</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Price%28American_politician%29" title="David Price (American politician)" class="mw-redirect">David Price</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burr" title="Richard Burr">Richard Burr</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="North Carolina's 5th congressional district">North Carolina-5</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_L.Neal" title="Stephen L. Neal">Steve Neal</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Chabot" title="Steve Chabot">Steve Chabot</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Ohio's 1st congressional district">Ohio-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S.Mann" title="David S. Mann">David Mann</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Cremeans" title="Frank Cremeans">Frank Cremeans</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%27s_6th_congressional_district" title="Ohio's 6th congressional district">Ohio-6</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Strickland" title="Ted Strickland">Ted Strickland</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ney" title="Bob Ney">Bob Ney</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%27s_18th_congressional_district" title="Ohio's 18th congressional district">Ohio-18</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Applegate" title="Douglas Applegate">Doug Applegate</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_LaTourette" title="Steve LaTourette">Steve LaTourette</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%27s_19th_congressional_district" title="Ohio's 19th congressional district">Ohio-19</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fingerhut" title="Eric Fingerhut">Eric Fingerhut</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Coburn" title="Tom Coburn">Tom Coburn</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district">Oklahoma-2</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Synar" title="Mike Synar">Mike Synar</a></td><td>Defeated (in primary)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.C.Watts" title="J. C. Watts">J. C. Watts</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Oklahoma's 4th congressional district">Oklahoma-4</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_McCurdy" title="Dave McCurdy">Dave McCurdy</a></td><td>Retired; Ran for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Senate</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bunn" title="Jim Bunn">Jim Bunn</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="Oregon's 5th congressional district">Oregon-5</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J.Kopetski" title="Michael J. Kopetski">Mike Kopetski</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_D.Fox" title="Jon D. Fox">Jon Fox</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%27s_13th_congressional_district" title="Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district">Pennsylvania-13</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Margolies-Mezvinsky" title="Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky">Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey_Graham" title="Lindsey Graham">Lindsey Graham</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="South Carolina's 3rd congressional district">South Carolina-3</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Derrick" title="Butler Derrick">Butler Derrick</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Wamp" title="Zach Wamp">Zach Wamp</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Tennessee's 3rd congressional district">Tennessee-3</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Lloyd" title="Marilyn Lloyd">Marilyn Lloyd</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Hilleary" title="Van Hilleary">Van Hilleary</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Tennessee's 4th congressional district">Tennessee-4</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cooper" title="Jim Cooper">Jim Cooper</a></td><td>Retired; Ran for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Senate" title="U.S. Senate" class="mw-redirect">U.S. Senate</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Stockman" title="Steve Stockman">Steve Stockman</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_9th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 9th congressional district">Texas-9</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Brooks%28politician%29" title="Jack Brooks (politician)">Jack Brooks</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Thornberry" title="Mac Thornberry">Mac Thornberry</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s_13th_congressional_district" title="Texas's 13th congressional district">Texas-13</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sarpalius" title="Bill Sarpalius">Bill Sarpalius</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Greene" title="Enid Greene">Enid Greene Waldholtz</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Utah's 2nd congressional district">Utah-2</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Shepherd" title="Karen Shepherd">Karen Shepherd</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M.Davis" title="Thomas M. Davis">Tom Davis</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%27s_11th_congressional_district" title="Virginia's 11th congressional district">Virginia-11</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_L.Byrne" title="Leslie L. Byrne">Leslie Byrne</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_White%28Washington%29" title="Rick White (Washington)" class="mw-redirect">Rick White</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Washington's 1st congressional district">Washington-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Cantwell" title="Maria Cantwell">Maria Cantwell</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Metcalf" title="Jack Metcalf">Jack Metcalf</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Washington's 2nd congressional district">Washington-2</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Swift" title="Al Swift">Al Swift</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Smith%28American_politician%29" title="Linda Smith (American politician)">Linda Smith</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="Washington's 3rd congressional district">Washington-3</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolene_Unsoeld" title="Jolene Unsoeld">Jolene Unsoeld</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Hastings" title="Doc Hastings">Doc Hastings</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%27s_4th_congressional_district" title="Washington's 4th congressional district">Washington-4</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Inslee" title="Jay Inslee">Jay Inslee</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nethercutt" title="George Nethercutt">George Nethercutt</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%27s_5th_congressional_district" title="Washington's 5th congressional district">Washington-5</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Foley" title="Tom Foley">Tom Foley</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Tate" title="Randy Tate">Randy Tate</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%27s_9th_congressional_district" title="Washington's 9th congressional district">Washington-9</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Kreidler" title="Mike Kreidler">Mike Kreidler</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Neumann" title="Mark Neumann">Mark Neumann</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Wisconsin's 1st congressional district">Wisconsin-1</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_W._Barca" title="Peter W. Barca">Peter Barca</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr></tbody></table>

<h3>Governorships</h3>

<table class="wikitable"><tbody><tr><th rowspan="1">Name</th><th rowspan="1">State</th><th rowspan="1">Predecessor</th><th rowspan="1">Predecessor's fate</th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fob_James" title="Fob James">Fob James</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Folsom,Jr." title="Jim Folsom, Jr.">Jim Folsom, Jr.</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawton_Chiles" title="Lawton Chiles">Lawton Chiles</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Bush" title="Jeb Bush">Jeb Bush</a></td><td>Reelected</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G.Rowland" title="John G. Rowland">John Rowland</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_P.Weicker,Jr." title="Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.">Lowell Weicker</a>*</td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Batt" title="Phil Batt">Phil Batt</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho" title="Idaho">Idaho</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_D.Andrus" title="Cecil D. Andrus">Cecil Andrus</a></td><td>Term limited</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Graves" title="Bill Graves">Bill Graves</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Finney" title="Joan Finney">Joan Finney</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Johnson" title="Gary Johnson">Gary Johnson</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_King" title="Bruce King">Bruce King</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pataki" title="George Pataki">George Pataki</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York">New York</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Cuomo" title="Mario Cuomo">Mario Cuomo</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Keating" title="Frank Keating">Frank Keating</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walters" title="David Walters">David Walters</a></td><td>Retired</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ridge" title="Tom Ridge">Tom Ridge</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P.Casey" title="Robert P. Casey">Bob Casey</a></td><td>Term limited</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Almond" title="Lincoln Almond">Lincoln Almond</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sundlun" title="Bruce Sundlun">Bruce Sundlun</a></td><td>Defeated (in primary)</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Sundquist" title="Don Sundquist">Don Sundquist</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_McWherter" title="Ned McWherter">Ned McWherter</a></td><td>Term limited</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Richards" title="Ann Richards">Ann Richards</a></td><td>Defeated</td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Geringer" title="Jim Geringer">Jim Geringer</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a></td><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Sullivan%28governor%29" title="Mike Sullivan (governor)">Mike Sullivan</a></td><td>Term limited</td></tr></tbody></table>

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