"Yvonne " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hear Geraldo last night? Even he kicked the "Democrats" and his beloved
Clinton administration for the filthy tricks of getting Victoria Toensing
and Joe DiGenova permanently barred from opinion television/political
commentary.
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From: Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, May 07, 1998 11:11 AM
Subject: L&I Dems Walk Out of Gingrich Speech
>Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>Dems Walk Out of Gingrich Speech
>
>> CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Two dozen Democrats walked out of
>> the New Hampshire Legislature today during a speech by
>> Newt Gingrich in which he criticized President Clinton
>> as being passive in the face of wrongdoing in his
>> administration.
>>
>> ``If a crime has been committed, the American people
>> have a right to know,'' the House speaker told the
>> GOP-dominated Legislature. He added that the president
>> should take an active role in uncovering any wrongdoing
>> in his administration.
>>
>> ``It's not enough to be passive,'' he said.
>>
>> Gingrich then criticized Whitewater figure Webster
>> Hubbell, saying ``He had to resign and go to jail.
>> Between resigning and going to jail, he got $720,000
>> from 18 different sources, including $100,000 from
>> Indonesians.''
>>
>> As the first of 20 to 30 Democrats in the 400-member
>> House headed up the aisles, Gingrich reacted.
>>
>> ``People can walk out, but what I'm saying is a fact
>> about a crime,'' he said. Republicans then interrupted
>> him with loud and sustained applause.
>>
>> ``Let me just say how sad I am about the people who
>> just walked out,'' Gingrich added.
>>
>> Rep. Ray Buckley of Manchester was among those who
>> left.
>>
>> ``There is a time and a place for that sort of garbage.
>> That is the way he runs Congress, not the way he speaks
>> in the well of the New Hampshire Legislature,'' Buckley
>> said.
>>
>> ``I believe he disgraced his position as speaker of the
>> House and offended many.''
>>
>> Buckley said Democrats had discussed in advance the
>> idea of a walkout if Gingrich gave a harshly partisan
>> speech.
>>
>> State Republican Chairman Steve Duprey called the
>> walkout ``incredibly rude,'' and said, ``It puts
>> Democrats in the ridiculous position of defending Webb
>> Hubbell.''
>>
>> Gingrich was making his third recent visit to the state
>> with the nation's earliest presidential primary.
>> Potential presidential candidates occasionally get a
>> chance to speak to the Legislature about pending
>> federal legislation and similar issues.
>>
>> The Democratic leader of the New Hampshire House stayed
>> put, somewhat unhappily. Rep. Peter Burling said
>> Gingrich had ``unceremoniously attacked, in the most
>> partisan way, the head of my party and the heart of my
>> party.''
>
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>
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>2.
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