One thing that all politicians want to avoid if they are ever going to be running for President of the United States is the idea that they are lobbyists or ever were lobbyists. What is it about being a lobbyist that creates such a stir in the political realm? Well it is the idea that people can pay them to support their ideas, and people fear that even as they are running and if they become president that these companies can continue to pay them and they will implement companies ideas for their own personal benefit. This is a problem because then it is no longer a democracy but instead it is companies and only the richest of those that start to influence and run the United States which is what we don't want.
So the question is was Newt a lobbyist and if he was is he still? Gingrich will adamantly deny that he ever had any hand in being a lobbyist. However he did start a group called Center for Health Transformation. And in this Center he allows health care ideas and companies to come in and pay him as he supports their ideas. He says that they are just ideas that he is in support of already and that he is simply a consultant to these companies but things look a little suspicious. Especially when companies are paying Newt over seventy thousand dollars a year plus stock options if he will point them in the right direction.
Will this hurt his chances in the election? It depends on how the American people view this type of performance. It seems that much of politics is giving favors to others so I am sure that other of the candidates have done similar things, it just depends on how far in it Newt is. Further investigation will let us know, but for now I would be skeptical of anyone who seems to be getting paid off by big companies.
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