Newt Gingrich's Tiffany Problem Continues to Take Root, Wife Worked on House Committee Lobbied by Jeweler

GOP hopeful Newt Gingrich's Tiffany & Co. $500,000 credit line continues to take root, after revelation wife, Callista Bisek Gingrich, worked on House Agriculture Committee lobbied by the high-end jeweler.

GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's Tiffany's problem is growing legs and will have an effect on his campaign, no matter how much he tries to play it off. Besides the obvious fact that his wife was living the high life ringing up $500,000 in charges, one can't ignore the deeper meaning to all this -- lobbyists, namely Cassidy & Co. SpyTalk is reporting his wife, Callista Bisek Gingrich worked for the House Agriculture Committee, which was heavily lobbied by Tiffany & Co. So, once again, we have rumblings of Newt Gingrich's hypocrisy and double-speak.

At the same time Tiffany & Co. was extending Callista (Bisek) Gingrich a virtual interest-free loan of tens of thousands of dollars, the diamond and silverware firm was spending big bucks to influence mining policy in Congress and in agencies over which the House Agriculture Committee–where she worked–had jurisdiction, official records show.

Filings by Tiffany’s lobbyist, Cassidy & Co., and other government records show that the firm’s spending on “mining law and mine permitting-related issues” in Congress, as well as the Forest Service, the Interior Department, and Interior’s Bureau of Land Management shot up sharply between during the period when Callista Gingrich was chief clerk at the House Agriculture Committee.

I would hope the fact that he's trailing in all the polls is an indication to Newt Gingrich speaks to his inelectability and we will be rid of this ridiculous sideshow sooner rather than later. When pressed about the issue in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Newt had this to say, according to the Washington Post:

Then came a question from a reporter about the controversy surrounding Gingrich and a $500,000 line of credit he and his wife had with high-end jeweler Tiffany’s.

“I feel that you are far more fascinated with that than most Americans,” he said. “Normal Americans actually ask about jobs, they ask about energy, they ask about all sorts of things that affect their lives.”

He has failed to realize that it's not so much the living the high life that the problem, it's what they are concealing and his penchant for telling half-truths. I didn't like the guy when he was Speaker of the House and I certainly don't like him now that he has set his sights on the White House.