Club for Growth blasts Gingrich’s attacks on Romney’s wealth

Will Rahn Senior Editor
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The influential Club for Growth savaged former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday for what they call his “poisonous attack on economic freedom.”

While campaigning in Florida on Wednesday, Gingrich said Romney was living in a “world of Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts and making $20 million for no work.”

In a statement released to reporters, Club president Chris Chocola fired back at Gingrich for attacking Romney’s personal wealth and investments.

“Newt Gingrich says he’s a student of history, but he must have gone to the same school as Barack Obama if he is reaching the same wrong conclusion about economic freedom,” Chocola said.

“Mitt Romney made his money from putting capital to work to create jobs and economic growth,” Chocola, a former Republican congressman, continued. “We should encourage, not criticize, such behavior. Newt Gingrich’s comment that Mitt Romney made money from ‘no work’ is ridiculous and continues his poisonous attack on economic freedom.”

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