Report: Special Interests Fuel Newt Gingrich's American Solutions Group
A new exposé from Politico finds that Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future is bankrolled by special interests and huge corporations while it fights to enact their agenda.
Special Interests Pave The Way For Gingrich To Make A Comeback
A new exposé from Politico examines just how Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future raised $8.1 million in the first half of 2009.
The answer? It is bankrolled by special interests and huge corporations while it fights to enact their agenda.
Kenneth P. Vogel writes:
Newt Gingrich's political group quietly pulled in an impressive $8.1 million in the first half of the year, a cash haul that enabled the former Speaker of the House to finance a robust political operation that includes at least 17 employees.
A report filed Friday with the Internal Revenue Service shows that American Solutions for Winning the Future accepted at least $460,000 from oil interests in the first half of the year, after advancing offshore oil drilling as an issue during the 2008 campaign cycle, and $200,000 from the Workforce Fairness Institute, a business-backed group opposed to the Employee Free Choice Act, which Gingrich has lambasted as "a mortal threat to American freedom."
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The group accepted $250,000 from Peabody Energy, which also gave that much last year, and $100,000 each from American Electric Power and Plains Exploration and Production Company.
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