Newt Gingrich faces questions about consulting job and support for biofuels

By John Aloysius Farrell
9:00 am, April 25, 2011

“I am not a lobbyist for ethanol,” Newt Gingrich declared in a mid-winter spat with the editors of The Wall Street Journal over his support for government subsidies for alternative fuel.

But Gingrich was a hired consultant to a major ethanol lobbying group—at more than $300,000 a year.