GINGRICH FACES CONSTITUENTS : SPEAKER ADMITS HE ERRED, COMPLAINS OF DOUBLE STANDARD.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. House Speaker Newt Gingrich Ging·rich , Newton Leroy Known as "Newt." Born 1943. American politician. A U.S. representative from Georgia first elected in 1979, he served as Speaker of the House from 1994 to 1999, when he resigned from Congress. was showered with applause and cheers Saturday as he denounced an ethical double standard for conservatives. But he acknowledged he made mistakes. To a 17-year-old constituent CONSTITUENT. He who gives authority to another to act for him. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 893. 2. The constituent is bound with whatever his attorney does by virtue of his authority. who told him that young people aren't voting because they don't trust politicians, Gingrich replied: ``I don't think you should trust politicians. I think you should elect them and watch them.'' ``When you are of legal age,'' Gingrich told community college student Rachel Gassaway, ``if there is no one worthy of your vote, run for office.'' Gingrich was reprimanded by the House on Tuesday and ordered to pay a $300,000 penalty. The Georgia Georgia, country, Asia Georgia (jôr`jə), Georgian Sakartvelo, Rus. Gruziya, officially Republic of Georgia, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,677,000), c.26,900 sq mi (69,700 sq km), in W Transcaucasia. Republican admitted last month he violated vi·o·late tr.v. vi·o·lat·ed, vi·o·lat·ing, vi·o·lates 1. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example). 2. To assault (a person) sexually. 3. House ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a rules by failing to ``seek and follow'' legal advice that would have warned him not to use tax-exempt projects to further potentially partisan Partisan may refer to: Political matters In politics, partisan literally means organized into political parties. The expression "Partisan politics" usually refers to fervent, sometimes militant support of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea. goals. ``If at some point in your life you make a mistake, saying up front you made a mistake is the only honorable thing you can do,'' Gingrich told supporters at one of a series of town hall meetings this weekend. The appearances were his first in his home district since being reprimanded. He would not say whether he plans to file suit against his former attorney, Jan Baran, who was first hired to handle the ethics case. Nor would he comment on how he intends to pay the $300,000 fine. ``We want to think this through pretty carefully,'' he said. Earlier, he complained that there appears to be one ethical standard for liberals and another for conservatives. ``Somehow, if you're on the left you can comingle everything and no one seems to notice,'' Gingrich said. ``If you are a conservative, and you hire a lawyer, and you make a mistake, you had better prepare to be pilloried.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Newt Gingrich takes questions during a town hall meeting at a Marietta, Ga., school. Associated Press |
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