ABOUT THE BOOK
Guide To Your Congressman: Newt Gingrich is your definitive pocket guide to Gingrich as a political figure and social persona. Informative and concise, this book serves as an election companion, a history and a profile.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Deena Shanker is a San Francisco newbie, having just moved out here from New York City. She is a recovering lawyer excited to get back to doing work she loves, like writing. She enjoys taking advantage of California's great outdoors with her dog, Barley, reading fiction, and eating cheese.
EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK
The 2012 campaign also has seen its fair share of Gingrich-related scandals. It was recently disclosed that Gingrich’s consulting firm received payments of approximately $1.6 million from the federally financed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Gingrich denies that he was “lobbying,” and claims he was merely providing his “advice as a historian.” However, Fannie and Freddie are considered by many to be major culprits in the mortgage crisis that demolished the economy and left many Americans without homes, making Gingrich’s work with them suspect...
Some notable Gingrich public statements:
“Core policies of protecting unionization and bureaucratization against children in the poorest neighborhoods, crippling them by putting them in schools that fail has done more to create income inequality in the United States than any other single policy. . . Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors, have one master janitor and pay local students to take care of the school. The kids would actually do work, they would have cash, they would have pride in the schools, they’d begin the process of rising.”
Many people were outraged at the suggestion that schools should hire their own students (thereby breaking child labor laws) to become janitors.
“I believe that marriage is between a man and woman. It has been for all of recorded history and I think this is a temporary aberration that will dissipate. I think that it is just fundamentally goes against everything we know.”
“People like me are what stands between us and Auschwitz.”
Gingrich made this statement in a 1994 interview; it has been recalled by a number of pundits in the current elections.
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