Sunday, April 8, 2012

Newt Gingrich, A Conservative Still Spending And Spending...

He acknowledged today that he has a multi-million-dollar campaign debt:

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Gingrich was asked about a report that his campaign had spent roughly $4.5 million more than it had raised.

"I think slightly less than that," he replied, declining to offer a more specific number. "We owe much more than we wanted to...
We've seen that style before, according to ABC News:
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich likes to tout his record for restraining government spending, but funding for good, old-fashioned, pork-barrel projects exploded while he was speaker of the House.

ABC News has taken a look back at Gingrich's record on the issue of so-called earmarks -- a common congressional practice of inserting taxpayer money for special projects into big appropriations bills -- and found a startling spike under Gingrich's leadership as speaker. Not only did earmark spending in Congress increase between 1994 and 1998, when he departed, the overall dollar amount roughly doubled.

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