MARIANNE GINGRICH HAS SOMETHING TO SAY
In the '90s, this happened again. Gingrich had an affair with a 33-year-old congressional aide -- while spearheading the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton -- and asked his third wife to marry him before he was divorced from his second.
And ABC is going to ignore her.
That is offensive.
Globe also never mentioned the fracas with Juan Williams from the debate the other night.
"Casino mogul fuels Gingrich’s offensive" by Brian C. Mooney | Globe Staff, January 10, 2012
The financial lifeline for Newt Gingrich’s 11th-hour attack on his top rival comes from an old friend who climbed from poverty in Dorchester to become one of the wealthiest men in the world.
Sheldon Adelson, the son of a Boston cabdriver, made his millions as a casino mogul in Las Vegas and Macao, and $5 million of that wealth will help pay for ads and an online video that seek to halt Mitt Romney’s rise in South Carolina, where the contest moves after today’s New Hampshire primary.
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The attack ads were produced by the super PAC called Winning our Future, which supports Gingrich, and will portray Romney as a corporate raider — “a vulture destroying jobs,’’ in the words of one PAC worker — during his years as head of Bain Capital, a private equity firm, in the 1980s and 1990s.
Also see: We Love You Super PAC
Money did come through after all.
Adelson’s efforts to help Gingrich stop Romney are not surprising. He has been a supporter and friend of Gingrich for well over two decades. They share a longstanding bond in their support for the security of Israel. Adelson, an avid and vigorous supporter of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his conservative Likud party, founded a conservative daily newspaper in Israel and contributes heavily to many charitable causes there.
But there is no Zionist influence over AmeriKan politics.
A college dropout and former Democrat, Adelson became an enthusiastic supporter of Republican and conservative causes in the late 1980s.
And he went into the gambling game, 'eh? Crime does pay in certain instances.
Between 2007 and last year, Adelson contributed at least $6 million to Gingrich’s political advocacy group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, which promoted domestic energy development, public education reform, and political engagement.
In the last three federal election cycles, Adelson, 78, and his wife, Miriam, a physician who specializes in treating substance abuse, have contributed nearly $700,000 to Republican candidates and committees, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Adelson, ranked by Forbes magazine in September as the eighth-wealthiest American with an estimated worth of $21.5 billion, launched his success from a modest neighborhood in Dorchester. In a rare television network interview in 2010, Adelson described his rise from poverty:
“In my mind, here’s a kid who comes from the slums, me,’’ he told ABC’s “Nightline.’’ “I came from a very poor family; there were six people, four children, and my parents, one bed in a room . . . and my parents were poor. When they died in 1985, 11 days apart, they didn’t have as much as $100 in the bank. Their whole life. They gave everything to their children. So I’m talking not from a white shoe background or from a privileged background. I’m talking [as] somebody who wore his skin down on his fingers trying to climb the ladder of success.’’
He's a legend in his own mind.
That climb has taken him to the top. Adelson now presides over the Las Vegas Sands Corp., which has lucrative casino and hotel-resort interests in Las Vegas; Bethlehem, Pa.; Macao, a former Portuguese colony that is now a “special administrative region’’ of China; and Singapore.
Along the way, he has had labor problems of his own. When the Venetian, a massive hotel-resort gaming complex, opened in Las Vegas in 1999, there were swarms of labor union pickets protesting that it did not have union workers.
I find hypocrisy offensive, don't you?
Adelson, who lives in Las Vegas, still maintains a home in Newton and a corporate office in Needham.
Adelson’s investment in Gingrich’s campaign, via the Winning our Future PAC, will focus on what many see as Romney’s most vulnerable issue: his actions at Bain Capital, and whether investments there cost workers their jobs....
And his casinos are going to save us, Massachusetts!
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"Gingrich plans what may be his last stand" by Brian C. Mooney | Globe Staff, January 11, 2012
MERRIMACK, N.H. - The leader in national and many early state polls a month ago, Gingrich tumbled quickly after opponents, led by a pro-Romney super PAC, laid waste to him with assaults on his past ethical problems, consulting work for mortgage giant Freddie Mac, and past positions that are anathema to many in his party’s conservative base. These included issues such as climate change, immigration, and a mandate for most individuals to buy health insurance.
But somehow he is now the Tea Party and conservative darling.
Also see: Gingrich Got Rich From Freddie Mac
Romney Responds to Gingrich
Globe's Gingrich Garbage Can
Which is where most of my Globes will be going soon.
He limped out of New Hampshire with enough money to make a stand in South Carolina, where he hopes to enjoy a home-field advantage of the type Romney used in the Granite State. Gingrich served 20 years in Congress as a representative from next-door Georgia. Gingrich will be helped by an allied super PAC, Winning Our Future, which received an infusion of $5 million late last week from Las Vegas casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson, a Boston native.
The organization, which must operate independently of the candidate, intends to spend about $3.4 million on advertising, much of it attacking Romney as a “corporate raider’’ while chief executive of Bain Capital in the 1980s and 1990s. It spent about $1.5 million on positive ads, mail, radio, and phone calls in Iowa. As of last night, it had not filed any reports of independent expenditures in South Carolina with the Federal Election Commission.
Gingrich has run an unorthodox campaign that at times has defied not only convention but also logic. As he was being pummeled mercilessly in Iowa by the pro-Romney PAC, Restore Our Future, Gingrich complained about the assault but vowed to run a positive campaign of ideas. He challenged caucus goers to stand up for him and make a statement to the country that negative campaigning did not work. It may have been trying to make a virtue of necessity, but in any event it didn’t work.
Gingrich, who rose to power in Congress with a slashing flair for brutalizing opponents, then shed his Gandhi persona at the end of the Iowa campaign and began drilling Romney as “the Massachusetts moderate’’ on a host of issues, including his track record at Bain.
That's an insult to Gandhi, Globe.
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"Massachusetts moderate has become a curse in conservative circles almost as vile as calling someone a Democrat or, even worse, a liberal....
I'm tired of labels.
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"Heat rises as S.C. vote nears; Gingrich gaining in poll, Romney steps up attacks" by Matt Viser | Globe Staff, January 18, 2012
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Gingrich's campaign, fueled by a solid debate performance Monday night and rapier attacks on Romney over his tax returns, has rebounded in South Carolina.
Meaning he will be getting some of Ron Paul's vote.
It also received a boost from Sarah Palin yesterday: the former vice presidential nominee said that if she lived in South Carolina she would vote for Gingrich....
Who cares what she thinks?
A CNN/Time poll released yesterday showed Gingrich was narrowing what had been a sizable Romney lead, with the former House speaker at 23 percent to Romney’s 33 percent. Former senator Rick Santorum trailed further, with 16 percent; Representative Ron Paul had 13 percent; and Governor Rick Perry of Texas had 6 percent....
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Related: Gingrich gave praise to private equity in ’09
What a two-faced scum!
