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LOL...Newtzi was for child labor laws before he called them "truly stupid"...
Newt Gingrich’s recent assertion child labor laws are stupid and that poor children should be able to work as school janitors runs counter to his position in 1996, when he was running for re-election against a Georgia businessman.
Gingrich’s remarks in favor giving poor children who lack employed role models a chance to earn money have drawn criticism since he uttered them Nov. 21 in a talk at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, but he stood by them during the GOP candidates debate.
Competitor Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, said he didn’t agree.
The USA Today story notes Gingrich’s convenient change of mind.
But in a 1996 ad titled “Cookie,” Gingrich slammed his then-congressional opponent, Michael Coles, former CEO of Great American Cookie Co., as an “unscrupulous businessman” partly because of a 1993 violation of child labor laws and accused him of using children “for hazardous labor,” according to a transcript of the ad in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Coles fired back with his own ad that said the 1993 incident involved two teenagers and that the company was cited for “violating safety codes that prohibit workers under 18 from operating freight elevators” when the teenagers were taking out the trash at a suburban Atlanta mall.
This makes for a heady mix of Gingrich’s trademark political viciousness and mendacity, with a big dose of obligatory Republican hypocrisy and nod to union-busting thrown in.
Interestingly, Coles passes off the ’96 ad as “just politics,” but sensibly notes something important we’ve yet to see mentioned by the mainstream media: What happens to all the school janitors who would be displaced by child laborers?
Anyone who thinks Gingrich gives a happy damn about people who clean floors and restrooms for a living doesn’t know a thing about Gingrich. There’s not a selfless or compassionate bone in the man’s body.
But displacing low-income union workers with non-union kids is sure to draw cheers from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable wing of the GOP.
Not to mention the idea’s appeal to the party’s hard-right political base of resenters, who look on the out of work as lazy slackers.
Gingrich might just be the candidate they’re looking for. He’s that awful, and proud of it.
http://ohpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=5132
Newt Gingrich’s recent assertion child labor laws are stupid and that poor children should be able to work as school janitors runs counter to his position in 1996, when he was running for re-election against a Georgia businessman.
Gingrich’s remarks in favor giving poor children who lack employed role models a chance to earn money have drawn criticism since he uttered them Nov. 21 in a talk at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, but he stood by them during the GOP candidates debate.
Competitor Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, said he didn’t agree.
The USA Today story notes Gingrich’s convenient change of mind.
But in a 1996 ad titled “Cookie,” Gingrich slammed his then-congressional opponent, Michael Coles, former CEO of Great American Cookie Co., as an “unscrupulous businessman” partly because of a 1993 violation of child labor laws and accused him of using children “for hazardous labor,” according to a transcript of the ad in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Coles fired back with his own ad that said the 1993 incident involved two teenagers and that the company was cited for “violating safety codes that prohibit workers under 18 from operating freight elevators” when the teenagers were taking out the trash at a suburban Atlanta mall.
This makes for a heady mix of Gingrich’s trademark political viciousness and mendacity, with a big dose of obligatory Republican hypocrisy and nod to union-busting thrown in.
Interestingly, Coles passes off the ’96 ad as “just politics,” but sensibly notes something important we’ve yet to see mentioned by the mainstream media: What happens to all the school janitors who would be displaced by child laborers?
Anyone who thinks Gingrich gives a happy damn about people who clean floors and restrooms for a living doesn’t know a thing about Gingrich. There’s not a selfless or compassionate bone in the man’s body.
But displacing low-income union workers with non-union kids is sure to draw cheers from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable wing of the GOP.
Not to mention the idea’s appeal to the party’s hard-right political base of resenters, who look on the out of work as lazy slackers.
Gingrich might just be the candidate they’re looking for. He’s that awful, and proud of it.
http://ohpblog.ohpinion.com/?p=5132
