{"id":6486,"date":"2011-12-11T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T08:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/is-newt-a-felon\/"},"modified":"2011-12-11T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T08:01:17","slug":"is-newt-a-felon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/11\/is-newt-a-felon\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Newt a Felon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doing my research yesterday, I ran across an interesting video by Liberal Viewer on this subject that focused primarily on how the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Fox, lies in their coverage of Newt\u2019s record.  To give you a better appreciation of what happened, here is an article, dated January 22, 1997, followed by the video, so you well be prepared to refute Republican lies on this subject.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"NewtNeutered[6]\"<\/a>The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House’s 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The ethics case and its resolution leave Gingrich with little leeway for future personal controversies, House Republicans said. Exactly one month before yesterday’s vote, Gingrich admitted that he brought discredit to the House and broke its rules by failing to ensure that financing for two projects would not violate federal tax law and by giving the House ethics committee false information.<\/p>\n

"Newt has done some things that have embarrassed House Republicans and embarrassed the House," said Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.). "If [the voters] see more of that, they will question our judgment."<\/p>\n

House Democrats are likely to continue to press other ethics charges against Gingrich and the Internal Revenue Service is looking into matters related to the case that came to an end yesterday.<\/p>\n

The 395 to 28 vote<\/strong> closes a tumultuous chapter that began Sept. 7, 1994, when former representative Ben Jones (D-Ga.), then running against Gingrich, filed an ethics complaint against the then-GOP whip. The complaint took on greater significance when the Republicans took control of the House for the first time in four decades, propelling Gingrich into the speaker’s chair\u2026[emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n