Thread: Gingrich Wants $30 Million to Run

Gingrich Wants $30 Million to Run

Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:56


http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/ging ... ode=3A4F-1

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he still might run for president if supporters will pledge $30 million by November.


"You can't bring all your good ideas if you don't have the resources to communicate," Gingrich told reporters Thursday at a breakfast in Washington.


Gingrich is holding a national Internet-based workshop next week. Afterward, his top political adviser, Randy Evans, will spend October seeing if he can generate pledges of $30 million, which Gingrich said would be needed to compete with the leader in the GOP presidential money chase, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.


On Nov. 1, if the pledges pan out, Gingrich will consider running, he said. He didn't say when he would decide but noted that Nov. 6 is one year before the 2008 presidential election and that Nov. 13, when Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy in 1979, is a "propitious" date.


The Republican former speaker had good things to say about the field of presidential contenders:


_Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, "a historical figure" as mayor, "would be a very strong candidate" as an alternative to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.


_Romney's work heading the 2002 Olympics was "amazing."


_Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, while making a "goofy" decision to announce his campaign on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, "is a very articulate guy and has the potential to be a national figure."


_Arizona Sen. John McCain faces the "hardest problems" but in recent weeks has made a "much more clear" case for his candidacy.


_Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is relatively unknown but "is as likable as anybody in the race."





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Ron Paul is the Real Deal, folks!
Have any of the other candidates said they would get rid of Birthright Citizenship? Ron Paul has.

Newt is for amnesty- He has tried to downplay it more lately but I heard him in several interviews over the past couple of years that he was for path to citzenship, etc. Saying we cannot deport people etc. No way will this man ever get my vote. Between leaving two or three wives when they were dying-I lost count- and some of the pro-amnesty things I have heard him say-no way. I just don't care for him.

Will he really raise $30 million? I would think it would be a little too late at this point. Maybe I am wrong-who knows.

Also, notice he does not praise any candidates who are against amnesty?

Newts record speaks for him, he's a total sellout for questionable Corporations: http://grades.betterimmigration.com/...t=GA&VIPID=217

Newts profile, he has a problem with USA workers...
http://www.betterimmigration.com/can...ichPres08.html

1990: Voted for a bill that included an amnesty
Former Rep. Gingrich voted for H.R. 4300, which provided an amnesty for up to 165,000 spouses and minor children of illegal aliens who were granted amnesty in 1986. Ultimately, the 1990 bill passed.

GINGRICH: Well, I think that guest-workers, if it's done right, will inevitably lead some people to become citizens over time, because they'll be here. They'll earn a living. They'll find an American citizen...
HUME: Well, should they have to go back to apply for citizenship, go back to their native country, country of origin?
GINGRICH: No, I don't think they should.
GINGRICH: ... I think it is absolutely wrong to say we're going to punish everybody who's waited back home for a visa, but we're going to allow these people who have already proven they'll break the law to be amnestied.
And it is amnesty. I don't care how you describe it. It is amnesty to allow the current illegals to break the law and get away with it.

HUME: Well, do you believe that it is possible to stop the United States from being a magnet for illegals without a guest-worker program?
GINGRICH: No. And that's why those who want to seal the border — and I agree with that for national security reasons — have to also be honest about the absolute need for a guest-worker program probably with a biometric, either a thumb print or iris scan, and a commitment...
HUME: This before you can get across the border?
GINGRICH: Before you can get across. So you make it easy to get across legally and in a controlled way to isolate the illegals.

1996: Voted for the Chrysler-Berman Amendment to H.R.2202
Former Rep. Gingrich voted for the Chrysler-Berman Amendment to H.R.2202. It was a vote in favor of a chain migration system that has been the primary cause of annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million today. Had the amendment failed, H.R.2202 would have eliminated or significantly reduced several extended-family immigration categories. It would have reduced overall legal immigration by almost 2.5 million over a ten-year period. Instead, the amendment passed by 238-183.

1990: Created Immigration Lottery
Former Rep. Gingrich supported the creation of the visa lottery in the H.R.4300, Immigration Act of 1990. The lottery was intended to increase immigration from countries with previously low-admission rates and rewards its winners with a visa.

1998: H.R.3736, voted to almost double H-1B foreign high-tech workers
Former Rep. Gingrich helped the House pass H.R.3736. Enacted into law, it increased by nearly 150,000 the number of foreign workers high-tech American companies could hire over the next three years. 1998: H.R. 3736

"Create a special open-ended worker visa for high value workers who bring specialized education, entrepreneurial talent or capital that will grow the American economy and make America a more prosperous country." June 18, 2007; Newt Gingrich's 10-point Immigration Plan appearing in Human Events

"'We have to have a relatively open green-card policy to relieve pressure' from Mexico and elsewhere, as well as from U.S. firms seeking workers, Mr. Gingrich said." February 21, 2005; The Washington Times

1996: Voted against the Gallegly Amendment to H.R. 2202 to increase interior enforcement through mandatory workplace verification pilot program
Former Rep. Gingrich voted against the Gallegly Amendment to make the pilot workplace verification program mandatory in five states. This would have helped reduce illegal immigration by reducing the job magnet for illegal aliens. The amendment failed by a vote of 86-331.

1996: Voted against interior enforcement by voting in favor of the Chabot Amendment to H.R. 2202
Former Rep. Gingrich voted in favor of the Chabot Amendment to H.R. 2202 to kill the voluntary pilot workplace verification program in 5 states. Workplace verification is an essential tool for withdrawing the job magnet from illegal aliens. The Chabot Amendment failed by a vote of 260-159.