spending. the earmarks for pennsylvania generals and when he was back in 2006 he really started bringing home the bacon for himself, didn t he? there s no question about it. just on a personal level, as you mentioned, when he was in congress he made $162,000. that was his salary in the united states senate. when he left actually, when he was defeated from a pretty big margin, he went to make money for the first time in his life, big money. and he made $1.3 million, according to a financial disclosure that he wrote out when he started running for president. that was. 2010 and the beginning of 2011 and not just for working for a newschannel that we all mentioned but also from working for the interests that he helped back in pennsylvania. health care company and also an energy company. wasn t a lobbyist, never registered as a lobbyist, but the kind of work that we see a lot of former members do, don t have the l word, lobbyist, but
nomination, by the time we get into the jeep election, he is going to be tough.ed up by having to go toe-to-toe with gingrich, whereas if they had just left everything alone, romney might well have been able to just kind of skate through and then obama could just kind of sheer the skin off, we have been better prepared at that point. newt offered a new defense of why he was not a lobbyist. i, of course, insisted for practical purposes he was. i know you made the case that technically he wasn t, but newt s defense he absolutely wasn t a lobbyist was basically i didn t need the money because i was making 60 grand a speech everywhere i went. and so he would have left open the idea i would have been a lobbyist if i needed the money. how does that sound in south carolina? i wrote about that today a great question. i wrote about that today and i said two things, one there are event planners all over the country being pilloried by their bosses because they paid
going to be tough.ed up by having to go toe-to-toe with gingrich, whereas if they had just left everything alone, romney might well have been able to just kind of skate through and then obama could just kind of sheer the skin off, we have been better prepared at that point. newt offered a new defense of why he was not a lobbyist. i, of course, insisted for practical purposes he was. i know you made the case that technically he wasn t, but newt s defense he absolutely wasn t a lobbyist was basically i didn t need the money because i was making 60 grand a speech everywhere i went. and so he would have left open the idea i would have been a lobbyist if i needed the money. how does that sound in south carolina? i wrote about that today a great question. i wrote about that today and i said two things, one there are event planners all over the country being pilloried by their bosses because they paid $100,000 and didn t know they could get him for 60. that is the first thing.
the sort of thing that bank of america and other sort of enormous banks want, is that why we might have heard that whispering moment between them? you know, two things, one is i think it s pretty common for people who head pacs or this general wasn t a lobbyist, but people who are lobbyist, to say that sort of thing to politici n politicians, that sort of thing happens all the time, but the answer is yes, the corporate world does not like regulation, it doesn t think that regulation is to protect mortgage holders or consumers is in their interest. so we ve had this fight in the country since the time of teddy roosevelt, and we ll continue to have it, and our elections are designed to settle a question each time about whether we think there ought to be some rules here, which paradoxically, by the way, take the honest corporations who would actually like to sort of care about the