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A chronology of the big-government activities & associations of Mitt Romney & Newt Gingrich ...
In September, 1942 Newt's mother, then age 16, marries Newt's biological father. The marriage falls apart in three days. Nine months later (June 17, 1943), Newt is born. A few years later, Newt's mother marries Robert Gingrich. Like his idol, Progressive Party founder Theodore Roosevelt, the young Newt is obsessed with wild animals and nature.
In March, 1947 Willard Mitt Romney is born into an elitist political family. His father is George Romney, a big-government, progressive Republican who would become a vicious opponent of conservative leader & hero, Barry Goldwater. George would later become Governor of Michigan (1963-69) and introduce the state's first ever income tax.
1961-62 - Newt Gingrich graduated from High School in 1961, and became eligible to be drafted for military service in the Vietnam War. He quickly marries his 26-year-old High School Geometry Teacher, Jackie Battley. Battley is 7 years his senior, and the wedding is boycotted by Newt's family. Newt and Jackie quickly have a child together. This allows Newt to avoid the draft.
January 1, 1963 - Mitt Romney's father becomes Governor of Michigan. Again, he was a so-called "moderate" Republican who viciously opposed the Goldwater-Reagan Conservative wing of the Party. He favored big-government programs and overhauled the tax structure in Michigan, in order to introduce the state's first ever income tax.
1964 - Conservative hero Barry Goldwater was leading the race for the Republican nomination against his main opponent, the arch-establishment left-wing shill, Nelson Rockefeller. Romney viciously attacked Goldwater as "suicidal" for the Republican Party.
At the Republican National Convention in 1964, with son Mitt in attendance, George Romney joined the Rockefeller Republicans in bashing Goldwater and his allies (including Ronald Reagan), calling him an extremist for his unapologetic defence of free markets and limited government under the Constitution. Ronald Reagan strongly defended Goldwater in a rousing speech defending economic and personal liberty as the system that was intended by the Founding Fathers. Goldwater won the nomination in a landslide. Romney then refused to support Goldwater's campaign against President Johnson, and said so very explicitly. Lyndon Johnson used this in his campaign ads to great effect (see right).
June, 1965 - Mitt Romney graduates from High School and becomes eligible to be drafted for military service in the Vietnam War. He soon begins attending Stanford University in California.
December, 1965 - Gingrich graduates from Emory University with a B.A. degree in history. In college he had started a Club for Young, Progressive Republicans. Friends say he never discusses his past or personal life, just politics and the future.
Reference: PBS
May 20, 1966 - Despite his own lack of service, Mitt Romney stages a counter-protest against a group at Stanford University protesting draft-status tests.
Reference: Daily Mail
May 23, 1966 - Mitt's father, Michigan Governor George Romney schmoozes with his friend Nelson Rockefeller at a party in New York, where they discuss their love for liberal Republican Senator Jacob Javits. Romney says Javits has national leadership potential. One recent scoring method found Javits to be the most liberal Republican to serve in either chamber of Congress between 1937 and 2002. Javits liked to think of himself as a political descendant of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive, big-government Republicanism.
Reference: Wikipedia
July, 1966 - Newt begins attending Tulane University, New Orleans. At Tulane, despite his status as a married man with children, he indulges in juvenile, counter-culture behaviour, including a protest against the University Administration for banning obscene photos in the school paper. He experiments with marijuana and gets a draft deferment, avoiding serving his country in the Vietnam War. He is later repeatedly accused of being a "draft-dodger" and a "chicken-hawk". Significantly, he also becomes a fan of Alvin and Heidi Toffler, which would become a life-long obsession for him (see video on left).
Reference: PBS
July, 1966 - After only his freshman year in college, Mitt Romney suddenly sneaks off to France for 30-months doing "Mormon missionary work". He is able to recieve a deferment due to the mission, and succesfully avoids the Vietnam draft. If anything, he is a lax Mormon. He consumes alcohol, something strictly forbidden in Mormonism. Later he states that his Mormon beliefs were "based on pretty thin tissue". Mitt Romney insists his establishment Republican father, then Gov. of Michigan, didn't pull any strings to get him his deferment.
Reference: NY Times
November 18, 1967 - George Romney annouces his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States.
1968 - Gingrich was Southern Regional Director of the Nelson Rockefeller Presidential campaign in 1968. Rockefeller was pro-abortion & supported big-government, socialist programs. Newt tells his Tulane thesis advisor that he wants a teaching job in Georgia to launch his political career.
Reference: PBS
December, 1968 - Mitt Romney returns to the US from France and recieves yet another draft deferment, this time a student exemption. Again, he insists his Governor father was not involved.
December, 1969 - After four years of deferments through student and missionary status, Romney draws a high draft number and avoids conscription and service in Vietnam. Romney became eligible for the Selective Service's first draft lottery in Dec. 1969, and received number 300, virtually ensuring he would not be drafted when his student deferment expired in Dec. 1970. Only those who got up to 195 were taken for service. Without the missionary exemption, Romney's undergraduate deferment could have expired in 1969, several months before the lottery was held. But Romney said the missionary deferment had no effect on his draft status because after receiving his undergraduate degree, he would have continued on to law school, resulting in more deferments.
Reference: 2008 McCain Opposition File
1970 - Mitt Romney's mother Lenore, runs for the US Senate in Michigan, on a pro-abortion platform. Mitt later boasts about this while running for Governor of Massachusetts (see video).
1971 - After attending Tulane for five years, Newt finally receives his Ph.D. in history. His thesis on education in the Belgian Congo is "nothing earth-shattering" and is never published.
Reference: PBS
1971 - At 27, Gingrich begins teaching at West Georgia College in Carrollton. He's ambitious, and in his second year he tries to become chairman of the History Department. He also co-founds the first-ever "Environmental Studies" and "Futurist Studies" programs. It is clear that Newt's progressive environmentalist ideology, and obsession with futurism, was present from the beginning.
December, 1972 - The Vietnam draft ends and conscription is discontinued. Gingrich and Romney have successfully avoided it.
1974 - At age 31, Newt makes his first bid for Congress against Conservative Democrat incumbent, Jack Flynt. He runs as a so-called "Progressive Republican" far to the left of the very Conservative Flynt. Newt is supported by his liberal colleagues from college and is endorsed by environmentalists, including the League of Conservation Voters. He loses.
Reference: Our Campaign
1976 - In 1976 Newt made his second bid for Congress. He again runs as a left-wing Republican Progressive, with environmentalists' backing. Again, he loses.
Reference: Our Campaign
1978 - Newt runs for Congress for a third time. With Conservative Democrat Jack Flynt retiring, Newt changes his stripes and runs as a Conservative, against a more liberal Democrat.
Reference: Our Campaign
May 16, 1979 - As a freshman Congressman, Newt immediately betrays his Conservative platform. He votes for a federal land grab that put tens of millions of acres in the hands of Washington bureaucrats, under the guise of so-called "environmentalism". To the astute observer, this behaviour is unsurprising given Newt's previous obsession with environmentalism as a College teacher.
Reference: GovTrack
June 28, 1979 - Gingrich voted for an oil windfall profits tax in 1979, which was signed by Jimmy Carter.
Reference: GovTrack
September 20, 1979 - Gingrich voted to raise the debt ceiling.
Reference: GovTrack
September 27, 1979 - Gingrich voted to establish the Federal Department of Education
Reference: GovTrack
October 23, 1979 - Gingrich voted for gasoline rationing and Jimmy Carter's Emergency Energy Conservation Act.
Reference: GovTrack
October 24, 1979 - Gingrich voted for federal farm subsidies to encourage the use of green energy on farms.
Reference: GovTrack
October 31, 1979 - Gingrich voted for Jimmy Carter's "Energy Mobilization Board." Carter wanted the authority to ration gasoline, form an 'energy mobilization board,' create a bureaucracy to guarantee that we would 'never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977,' set oil import quotas and develop solar power. 'These efforts will cost money,' Carter explained, "a lot of money…."
Reference: GovTrack
November 8, 1979 - Gingrich voted for federal subsidies on milk prices.
Reference: GovTrack
December 4, 1979 - Gingrich voted for federally-funded wind energy research.
Reference: GovTrack
December 18, 1979 - Gingrich voted in favor of the Chrysler Bailout and a 3-year wage freeze on Chrysler workers.
Reference: GovTrack
December 19, 1979 - Gingrich voted to extend HUD programs in 1979.
Reference: GovTrack
April, 1980 - Newt and wife Jackie separate
April 16, 1980 - Gingrich voted for another federal land grab, the 2.3M-Acre Idaho River of No Return Wilderness.
Reference: GovTrack, Wikipedia
June 4, 1980 - Newt voted to raise the debt ceiling for the second time.
Reference: GovTrack
September, 1980 - Gingrich's wife Jackie is taken to hospital to be treated for uterine cancer.
Stephen Talbot of Salon wrote...
"The most notorious incident in Gingrich's marriage ... was when he cornered Jackie in her hospital room where she was recovering from uterine cancer surgery and insisted on discussing the terms of the divorce he was seeking. Shortly after that infamous encounter, Gingrich refused to pay his alimony and child-support payments. The First Baptist Church in his hometown had to take up a collection to support the family Gingrich had deserted. Six months after divorcing Jackie, Gingrich married a younger woman, Marianne, with whom he had been having an affair."
Peter Boyer of Vanity Fair wrote that...
"She [Jackie] says that Gingrich walked out on her in the spring of 1980. That fall, while she was in the hospital recovering from surgery for uterine cancer, he appeared at her bedside with a yellow legal pad outlining the details for their divorce."
References: Salon, Vanity Fair
February 5, 1981 - Gingrich votes to raise the debt ceiling for the third time.
Reference: GovTrack
February, 1981 - Newt Gingrich finalises his divorce with Jackie.
June 24, 1981 - Gingrich voted for continued authorizations of the federal Corporation of Public Broadcasting in 1981, and again in 1984, and resisted efforts to cut the public broadcasting budget.
Reference: GovTrack
July 28, 1981 - Gingrich voted for the creation of the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration.
Reference: GovTrack
August, 1981 - Newt Gingrich marries Marianne, the woman with whom he was having an affair.
October 28, 1981 - Gingrich voted for increased powers to the FDIC to bail out struggling savings and loans through reorganization, purchase of bad assets, or recapitalization (TARP-Lite).
Reference: GovTrack
December 16, 1981 - Gingrich voted for an increase in taxes on coal producers in 1981.
Reference: GovTrack
March 9, 1982 - Gingrich voted for federally-funded research on potatoes (no joke - Bill was called POTATO RESEARCH PROMOTION ACT).
Reference: GovTrack
March 18, 1982 - Gingrich voted to reaffirm that the cash deposits are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
Reference: GovTrack
May 12, 1982 - Gingrich voted for a $1 Billion increase in federal mortgage subsidies in 1982 - condoning the federal involvement in the mortgage industry that led to the housing collapse.
Reference: GovTrack
May 20, 1982 - Gingrich voted to strengthen the federal home loan agencies "to ensure the availability of home mortgage loans' - again, condoning the federal involvement in the mortgage industry that led to the housing collapse.
Reference: GovTrack
August 4, 1982 - Gingrich voted for another federal land grab, expanding the Sipsey Wilderness.
Reference: GovTrack
December 6, 1982 - Gingrich voted for an increase in the gas tax.
Reference: GovTrack
December 16, 1982 - Gingrich voted for another federal land grab, expanding the 1.5M-Acre Mark Twain National Forest.
Reference: GovTrack
April 12, 1983 - Gingrich voted for another federal land grab, a 2.3M-Acre national forest in California.
Reference: GovTrack
July, 1983 Romney and his family were preparing for their annual vacation to a family cottage in Beach O'Pines, Ontario. Seamus was enclosed in a carrier on the roof of the Romney family's station wagon. Sometime during the trip, the dog became afflicted with diarrhea, causing excrement to flow down the windows of the car. Romney stopped at a gas station to wash Seamus and the car, put Seamus back in his carrier, and continued the twelve-hour trip to Ontario.
References: Wikipedia
November 16, 1983 - Gingrich voted for another federal land grab, designation of large wilderness areas in Wisconsin and North Carolina.
References: GovTrack, GovTrack
February 9, 1984 - Gingrich voted for hundreds of millions of federal research dollars going toward environmental research and development in 1984 and 1985.
Reference: GovTrack
May 8, 1984 - Gingrich voted for another federal land grab, designation of large wilderness areas in Virginia.
Reference: GovTrack
June 28, 1984 - Gingrich votes to raise the debt ceiling for the fourth time.
Reference: GovTrack
September, 1984 - Newt's book "Window of Opportunity" is published. In it he suggests that the government should fund the building of an elaborate array of mirrors in space.
Reference: PolitiFact
October 2, 1984 - Gingrich was one of the few who voted against the 1984 bill requiring the President and Congress to submit a balanced budget.
Reference: GovTrack
1987 - Mitt Romney's company, Bain Capital, takes over Holson company and engages in some cronyism with government.
Lee Fang of Slate Magazine writes ...
Shortly after Bain took control of Holson in 1987, executives pushed for the company to expand in the South. Officials from the firm (Bain) had negotiated with South Carolina Gov. Carroll Campbell, a Republican, to extend $200,000 in utility support for a new Holson plant in the city of Gaffney. The local city council also approved a $5 million bond for construction, after meeting with representatives from Holson. Five years after South Carolina's taxpayers had helped finance the factory, Bain chose to sell Holson's Gaffney facility for $2.8 million. Romney's firm reaped the profits on the taxpayers' expenditure.
Reference: Slate
April 2, 1987 - Gingrich co-sponsors H.R. 1934, to implement the infamous & unconstitutional "Fairness Doctrine". Gingrich now claims he only wanted the Fairness Doctrine to hinder left-wing networks. Ronald Reagan ultimately vetoed the legislation.
Reference: PJ Media
April 11, 1988 - Newt says "If Bush runs as a continuation of Reaganism, I think he'll lose." Gingrich now repeatedly mentions Ronald Reagan positively, to improve his standing among conservatives.
February 22, 1989 - In 1989, Gingrich was one of the sponsors behind a bill that would have made controlling the growth of the world population a goal of the U.S. government. The bill was the Global Warming Prevention Act of 1989. The bill "Declares it is the policy of the United States that family planning services should be made available to all persons requesting them. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 through 1995 for international population and family planning assistance."
Reference: TPM Media
March 22, 1989 - Newt is voted in as minority whip by 2 votes.
June 9, 1989 - Newt Gingrich warns Democrats against criticizing Savings & Loan bail-out.
June 15, 1989 - Newt voted for the bail-out of Savings & Loan.
Reference: The Library of Congress
November 15, 1990 - Clean Air Act Amendments are signed into law. They contain a cap-and-trade system and are supported by the then Minority Whip, Newt Gingrich.
Reference: EPA
7 May 1991 - Newt Gingrich tells Republicans to ".. at one level, Relax and accept" abortion for the sake of Party unity.
1991 - Mitt Romney's "rescue" of Bain Capital was achieved in part by convincing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to forgive roughly $10 million of the company's debts, according to sources close to the deal and federal records obtained by The Boston Globe.
Reference: Boston Globe
March 10, 1992 - Mitt Romney votes for liberal Democrat Paul Tsongas in the Massachusetts Democratic Presidential Primary.
Reference: BuzzFeed
October 19, 1993 - Mitt Romney enrolls as a Republican in Massachusetts. Previously he had been, albeit breifly, a Democrat
Reference: BuzzFeed
December 8, 1993 - Gingrich preached NAFTA and whipped Republicans into supporting it. Gingrich later said NAFTA was good because it created jobs in Mexico, not the US (See below).
Reference: Eugene Register-Guard
May 14, 1994 - Joe Battenfeld writes in the Boston Herald...
"Republican U.S. Senate hopeful W. Mitt Romney further distanced himself from anti-abortion forces at the start of the GOP state convention in Springfield, saying he does not want to be labeled a 'pro-life' candidate. Anti-abortion delegates are expected to caucus before today's convention vote, but Romney said he will not meet with them. 'I'm not seeking their endorsement,' said Romney, who remains the clear favorite to win the party's endorsement today. 'I think it's important that people see me not as a pro-life candidate.'"
Reference: Boston Herald [5/14/1994]
May 18, 1994 - Andrew Miga writes in the Boston Herald...
"GOP Senate hopeful W. Mitt Romney, who has been accused of waffling on abortion, came down more firmly in the abortion rights camp yesterday, voicing support for the RU-486 'morning after' abortion pill and a bill to ensure clinic access."
Reference: Boston Herald [5/19/1994]
June, 1994 - Mitt Romney and his company secure tax-payer funded subsidies for a company he invests in called Steel Dynamics. Bain Capital put $18.2 million into Steel Dynamics, making it the largest domestic equity holder. It sold its stake five years later for $104 million, a return of more than $85 million. As Bain made its investment, the state and county pledged $37 million in subsidies and grants for the $385-million plant project. Despite the tax-payer subsidies, Mitt Romney now uses Steel Dynamics as an example of his success at creating jobs in the private sector.
Reference: LA Times
June, 1994 - Mitt Romney and his wife attend a fund-raising reception for Planned Parenthood in Cohasset, Massachusetts. Romney and Ann chat with local political activists, including Nicki Nichols Gamble, who was then president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. Romney voices his support for the pro-choice agenda and Ann Romney, whose father was a staunch atheist, pulls out her chequebook (a joint account with her husband) and donates money to the extremist pro-abortion organisation. Mitt doesn't object.
Mitt Romney, while aknowledging his position on abortion has changed, often highlights Ronald Reagan as another example of such a change. However, Ronald Reagan changed his position against the tide of political expediency, indicating that his switch was genuine. Mitt Romney's "flip-flop" on abortion, like all his other "flip-flops", was to his political advantage.
August 19, 1994 - Conservative Republican Senate Candidate and Bronze Star recipient John Lakian, denounces both US Senator Ted Kennedy and Republican rival Mitt Romney for their backing of gun control and pledges that, if elected, he would oppose any attempt to crack down on guns. Both Ted Kennedy and Mitt Romney support the Brady Registration Act and the so-called "assault weapons" ban.
Reference: Boston Globe
August 27, 1994 - Mitt Romney expresses his strong support for Bill Clinton's crime bill, which contained the federal "assault weapons" ban and expanded federal controls. Romney said the bill was "a big step forward".
Reference: Boston Globe
August 31, 1994 - While campaigning for US Senate, Mitt Romney headlines Gay and Lesbian Newspaper...
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September 23, 1994 - Mitt Romney expresses his support for draconian gun control, including the Brady Bill and so-called "assault weapons" bans at both state and federal level. Romney says...
"That's not going to make me the hero of the NRA. I don't line up with the NRA. I don't line up with a lot of special interest groups."
Reference: Boston Herald
September 27, 1994 - The "Contract with America" is announced. Newt Gingrich had worked hard to make sure the so-called "Contract with America" was mere tinkering on the economic front, and excluded important conservative issues like abortion. He later admitted this .
Tom Woods writes in his book Back on the Road to Serfdom (2011) ...
The failure of conservatives to make significant inroads into the federal apparatus was symbolized by the Contract with America, the series of proposals Republicans promised to support on the eve of their off-year landslide in 1994. What was portrayed as a bold array of policy initiatives was in fact a timid and insignificant list of changes that would have left the federal apparatus for all intents and purposes unchanged.
The establishmentarian Brookings Institution later correctly observed that ...
Viewed historically, the Contract represents the final consolidation of the bedrock domestic policies and programs of the New Deal, the Great Society, the post-Second World War defense establishment, and, most importantly, the deeply rooted national political culture that has grown up around them.
Reference: Baltimore Sun
George F. Will also pointed out the fakery of the "Contract with America" in his syndicated column ...
October 6, 1994 - Mitt Romney writes a letter to the Log Cabin Club of Massachusetts saying ...
"I am more convinced than ever before that as we seek to establish full equality for America's gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership [than Kennedy] ..."
Reference: Boston Herald
October 20, 1994 - The Boston Herald endorses Romney, saying ...
"With or without a Romney victory, the GOP will have the Senate next year. In a Republican Senate, Mitt Romney will do far more damage pulling his party leftward than [Ted Kennedy] doing the predictable. When Romney goes to bat for a gay civil rights law, it won't be Ted Kennedy mounting the barricades for the doctrinaire left's social agenda but the Republican hero who beat the liberal icon, the thoughtful moderate voting his conscience."
Reference: Boston Herald
October 25, 1994 - In a Senatorial Debate Mitt Romney talks about his positions on abortion, Ronald Reagan and various other topics of interest to conservatives.
On abortion he says ...
"One of the great things about our nation . . . is that we're each entitled to have strong personal beliefs, and we encourage other people to do the same. But as a nation, we recognize the right of all people to believe as they want and not to impose our beliefs on other people. I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years, that we should sustain and support it, and I sustain and support that law, and the right of a woman to make that choice, and my personal beliefs, like the personal beliefs of other people, should not be brought into a political campaign."
On Reagan's economic policies, he says ...
"I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush."
He also says he wants mandatory reporting by companies, for purposes of affirmative action ...
"I believe that public companies and federal agencies should be required to report in their annual 10k, the number of minorities and women by income group within the company, so we can identify where the glass ceiling is, and break through it."
October 27, 1994 - Whilst campaigning for Senate, Mitt Romney announces that he doesn't even support the weakly conservative policies of the so-called "Contract with America".
November, 1994 - The fake Republican revolution against big-government sweeps Gingrich into the Speakership.
Jacob G. Hornberger, Founder of the Future of Freedom Foundation, later writes ...
"With the Republican takeover of both houses of Congress in 1994, the Republicans announced that a new "revolution" had swept America, led by Senator Robert Dole and Representatives Newt Gingrich and Richard Armey. Of course, there was the famous "Contract with America," but the provisions of that document involved minor tinkering with the system, at best."
January 2, 1995 - Newt Gingrich says he wants the federal government to fund Ballet!, among other arts projects...
"I'd like to find some way to look at bloc-granting to the states, some money for the arts, at the state and local level. I'm for the Atlanta Ballet. I'm for the High Museum of Art or the Metropolitan Museum of Art."
January 4, 1995 - Newt Gingrich becomes Speaker of the House and recommends all members of the House read the works of Alvin and Heidi Toffler, two futurists who are pro-abortion and believe the American Constitution is outdated. In his opening speech he repeatedly praises FDR and the New Deal.
January 31, 1995 - Gingrich strongly supported Bill Clinton's Bail-Out of the Mexican Peso, without the approval of his own Congress.
Reference: Associated Press
April 10, 1995 - Gingrich supports federal funding of abortion.
Reference: SF Chronicle
June 11, 1995 - Gingrich has a love-fest "debate" with President Clinton in Claremont, New Hampshire. Gingrich said he was a big fan of Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
July 6, 1995 - Appearing on Charlie Rose, Gingrich admits that he purposely excluded abortion from the "Contract with America" and bemoans that the Republicans wouldn't have a majority if they excluded the pro-abortionists.
July, 1995 - In a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Affairs Gingrich brazenly admitted his disdain for the Constitution.
Gingrich told the gathering ...
"The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution," he said. "Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making." He went on to profess an oxymoronic belief in "very strong but limited federal government," and pledged, "I am for the United Nations." That is certainly no surprise since his mentor is none other than former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger (also a CFR member and one-world internationalist).
Reference: New American
September 12, 1995 - Mitt Romney attends a White House event and is praised by President Clinton for supporting the beleaguered AmeriCorps program, which was under assault from congressional Republicans.
Reference: McCain Opposition File [2008]
February, 1996 - Jacob G. Hornberger, Founder and President of the Future of Freedom Foundation, writes about Gingrich's failed Republican "Revolution"
April 18, 1996 - Gingrich voted for restrictions on laser sighting devices.
Reference: Gun Owners of America
June 12, 1996 - Gingrich says there needs to be a "sense of tolerance" of abortion in the Republican Party.
July 5, 1996 - "There is alot of room in the Republican party for pro-choice republicans"
September 16, 1996 - Gingrich voted for the Lautenberg Gun Ban.
Reference: NAGR
1996 - Mitt Romney's Bain Capital recieves more tax-payer subsidies ...
Lee Fang of Salon writes ...
In 1996, Tom Stemberg, a close Romney business partner leading Staples, met with Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening, a Democrat, to negotiate a package of taxpayer sweeteners to build a new distribution center in Hagerstown. The Glendening administration, using a "Sunny Day" fund of discretionary development money, awarded Staples $2.3 million in grants and low interest loans. The following year, as Glendening prepared for his reelection campaign, top Staples executives maxed out in donations. Stemberg and his colleagues gave a total of $16,000.
A similar story played out in Connecticut, where Staples landed a deal in which taxpayers subsidized over $6 million in low-interest loans for the company to construct a distribution center in Killingly in 1998.
Reference: Salon
September 28, 1996 - Gingrich voted for the "Gun Free School Zones Act", making schools easier targets.
Reference: Gun Owners of America
October 11, 1996 - Company that Mitt Romney supervised pleads guilty to massive Medicare fraud.
References: Free Lance Star, NY Times
December 21, 1996 - Gingrich admits to ethics violations.
December, 1996 - Gingrich recieves a "D" rating from Gun Owners of America.
Reference: Gun Owners of America
January 21, 1997 - Gingrich is ordered by the House Ethics Committee, to pay a penalty of $300,000
January 17, 1998 - Gingrich gets up at an RNC meeting, and announces that he'll campaign for Republican candidates who support Partial Birth Abortion. He was responding to a motion that was put forth to ban funding to Republican candidates that support Partial Birth abortion. He urged the members to defeat the motion, an utterly disgusting act.
March 1, 1998 - Appearing on Iowa Public Television, Gingrich renews his support for ethanol subsidies.
Host: Another issue that is pretty sacrosanct in Iowa politics is ethanol, government tax subsisdies for ethanol, where are you on that?
Gingrich: Well I was very, very supportive of Congressman Jim Nussle and Senator Chuck Grassley in fighting to extend ethanol in the last congress. I have twice actively fought against efforts to kill ethanol. I find it fascinating that the big oil interests...suddenly decide they are against any kind of government intervention...It's a very good program and my expectation is that the program will continue and expand.
March 1, 1998 - During 1998 panel on urban issues, Romney praised Hillary Clinton as he addressed need for Boston business communities to work together. Romney said: "Hillary Clinton is very much right, it does take a village, and we are a village and we need to work together in a non-skeptical, no-finger-pointing way."
Reference: Boston Globe
April 6, 1998 - Appearing on Charlie Rose, Gingrich admits the failure of the "Contract with America".
June 26, 1998 - Speaker Gingrich supports tax-payer funding of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This is foreign "aid" for third world dictatorships.
November 6, 1998 - Gingrich resigns from the Speakership in disgrace, an embarrasment to conservatives. As a means of highlighting Gingrich's big-government record, it is later reported that Gingrich, in the previous 12 years, had co-sponsored a total of 418 bills with liberal Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
Reference: Daily Caller
1998 - Mitt Romney's Bain Capital lobbies the federal government for more tax-payer subsidies ...
Lee Fang of Salon writes ...
GS Industries, a steel company purchased by Bain in the early '90s, faced fiscal problems as Bain withdrew large dividends and management fees. Under Bain's leadership, the steelmaker hired the K Street lobbying firm of Wiley Rein to seek government support. In 1998-99 the firm paid $140,000 for a lobbying team that included former Democratic Rep. Jim Slattery. GS Industries eventually won a federal loan guarantee, but before the loan could be delivered, the company fell to bankruptcy in 2001. Bain's executives still made $50 million from their involvement with the firm.
Reference: Salon
1999 - From Salon: "... Romney departed Bain Capital to take over as the chief executive officer of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. The experience, turning an organization in disarray and deeply in the red into a popular event that actually earned over $100 million in profits, is portrayed as yet another example of the candidate's private sector management skills. Yet the turnaround was achieved in part through the use of professional influence peddling. Under Romney's management, the Olympic organizing committee spent over $3.3 million on Beltway lobbyists to secure federal (government) funding for the 2004 Winter games."
"Olympics lobbyists from firms like Patton Boggs and King & Spalding helped secure federal grants for communications equipment, educational money and public transportation. Millions of dollars were procured from federal officials, who wanted to allay safety concerns in the aftermath of 9/11."
Reference: Salon