consultants, he made millions of dollars helping companies promote services while gaining access to government officials. the article points to meetings gingrich arranged between clients and officials noting the executives paid as much as 200,000 a year just to belong to gingrich's group. the center for health trance formation. speaking at a campaign event in south carolina yesterday, gingrich said he did not need the money bad enough to become a lobbyist. >> i did no lobbying of any kind, period. for practical reason -- i'm going to be direct, okay. i was charging $60,000 a speech. and the number of speeches was going up, not down. normally celebrities leave and they gradually sell fewer speeches. we were selling more. >> that's the defense. i was not a lobbyist because i was making so much money speaking, 60 grand a pop. mitt romney is downplaying the recent campaign surge by mr. gingrich, speaking to fox news,
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