Huffington Post: Remember Newt's Tiffany's account?

A new political book, by Real Clear Politics' Tom Bevan and Carl Cannon explains why Newt Gingrich had $500,000 expense account from Tiffany's Jewelers. He bought his wife off with jewelry. Callista had been against a presidential run.

Campaign staff Dave Carney and Rob Johnson left Newt Gingrich because Rick Perry was getting ready to run for president himself. The two did not like Newt's wife, Callista, either.

"She's the single worst influence on a candidate I've ever seen," one "campaign strategist" told Bevan and Cannon. This same source said that Gingrich used the Tiffany's credit account to purchase a necklace reportedly worth six figures:


to 'buy Callista off' so she'd acquiesce to a presidential run."

Gingrich's former aides said that the former House Speaker from Georgia ignored their advice not to go on a luxury cruise to the Greek islands in late May.

Think Newt isn't a dirty old man? This young women is Callista

However, Newt feared damage to, or even the loss of, his marriage to his third wife. Newt married her during a six year extra-martial affair.  Callista was 22 years his junior.

"In Newt's mind, it was the cruise or his marriage. And he didn't want to get married a fourth time," said a source identified by Cannon and Bevan as "a person with knowledge of the discussions."

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/new-book-says-gingrich-bought-off-his-wife-for-candidacy_n_1089090.html

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