Media Missed the Mark, Wide Left: Commentary from Strong America Now Founder Mike George

DALLAS, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Strong America Now:

A number of news sources recently implied that some sort of nefarious relationship exists between presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and me.  The charges are only worth repeating to show what nonsense they are.

A Bloomberg story quotes Craig Holman, a Washington lobbyist with Public Citizen, saying:

"Newt Gingrich has become a de facto spokesperson for Lean Six Sigma, a business management concept pioneered by a Dallas entrepreneur Mike George who has spent more than $200,000 of his own money to promote the former speaker's candidacy."

"This goes beyond the concern of coordination, and smack dab into the concern of having a mutually profitable business relationship between a super-PAC and a presidential candidate."

"There's Gingrich out there selling Mike George's book while Mike George helps to promote Gingrich's candidacy.  That's kind of amazing."

What's amazing is that Bloomberg quoted a Washington Lobbyist who obviously did no research into this matter or bothered to pick up the phone and call me, or he would have learned that I sold my consulting firm FIVE years ago and retain NO financial interest in Lean Six Sigma.  I don't even own the rights to the books I wrote on the subject.

The reason I have personally spent money advocating for Newt Gingrich thru a Super PAC is because he is the only presidential candidate who has completely endorsed the use of proven waste reduction measures and incorporated them into his vision to address the financial problems facing our country.

The only "corrupt bargain" that exists is our federal government's wasting of 25 cents of every dollar collected in taxes (much of it borrowed from China).  If this corruption is not addressed and largely eliminated, the deficit will cause a financial collapse of America which David Stockman and others have predicted will occur in the next few years.  If Gingrich is elected, I am confident such a collapse will not occur. I cannot say this for Romney or Obama because neither one has a plan to end the deficit in the foreseeable future.

SOURCE Strong America Now