Newt's adventures in porno-world are an old scam
by David Waldman
Thu Oct 01, 2009 at 11:12:04 AM PDT
Media Matters picked up on a peculiar story recently:
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich seems to have gotten into the habit of leading companies in the adult entertainment industry to believe they won awards, then telling them "no."
One (in a long, interconnected chain) of Newt's PACs, 527s and non-profit organizations, American Solutions for Winning the Future, has not once but twice "accidentally" invited sex industry mavens to receive his oh-so-selective "Entrepreneur of the Year" awards.
The two selections were indeed "accidents" in the sense that Gingrich likely had no idea the two businesses, "Pink Visual" and "The Lodge" were a porn film production company and a strip club. In hindsight it seems kind of obvious, but the thing is, there was no kind of "sight" at all, fore or hind.
That's because what Gingrich is running here is a scam from top to bottom, and an old and hackneyed one at that. Take a look at something I wrote up back in April of 2005:
Congratulations! You may already be a winner!
by Kagro X
ABC News's Brian Ross reports on the National Republican Congressional Committee's "Physician of the Year" fundraising scam:
by Kagro X
ABC News's Brian Ross reports on the National Republican Congressional Committee's "Physician of the Year" fundraising scam:
The good news reached the Jamestown, N.Y., office of Dr. Rudolph Mueller in a fax from a congressman in Washington. Mueller had been named 2004 Physician of the Year.
"My secretary came running in and said, 'Dr. Rudy, look at what you've won, you're Physician of the Year,' " said Mueller, an internist.
But to receive the award in person at a special two-day workshop in Washington last month, Mueller found out that he would have to make a $1,250 contribution to the National Republican Congressional Committee. It was a disturbing discovery, he said.
[...]
Mueller soon found he was not the only winner. There were hundreds of Physicians of the Year present, many of whom found the criteria for being selected equally as opaque.
"My secretary came running in and said, 'Dr. Rudy, look at what you've won, you're Physician of the Year,' " said Mueller, an internist.
But to receive the award in person at a special two-day workshop in Washington last month, Mueller found out that he would have to make a $1,250 contribution to the National Republican Congressional Committee. It was a disturbing discovery, he said.
[...]
Mueller soon found he was not the only winner. There were hundreds of Physicians of the Year present, many of whom found the criteria for being selected equally as opaque.
Wow. That's cold. Who could've come up with such an idea?
Oh, but there was more. Even then.
Read the rest.
Source: Daily Kos
