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Originally Posted by Chicks
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You're just wacky as hell, Chicklet. Gingrich was not "kicked out" of Congress. He elected not to run again. Yes, he was sanctioned by his peers for ethics violations, which contributed to his decision to resign from the Speakership and eventually from Congress. Gingrich was a great "idea guy" but turned out to be a poor political strategist, the latter playing a primary role in resigning the speakership, amidst loss of support from House Repubs.
Also, it is not unusual for politicians to have outstanding campaign debt. "John Glenn, the astronaut and Democratic senator from Ohio, abandoned a presidential bid in 1984 but was required to keep filing FEC reports for his presidential campaign committee for more than two decades afterward. Glenn’s presidential campaign was “administratively terminated” in 2006, eight years after he left the Senate and a decade before Glenn’s death in 2016. The campaign still had nearly $2.7 million in debts."