Former Gingrich Staffer Alleges Affair Again Anne Manning, a former staffer during Newt Gingrich’s first run for office, has come forward to retell the story about her affair with the former Speaker, a story she first unveiled in 1995. From the Daily Caller: Anne Manning says that she had an adulterous relationship with Gingrich 34 years ago. At the time, he was married to his first wife, Jackie Battley, and campaigning for Congress with the slogan “Let Our Family Represent Your Family.”
Manning told the National Enquirer that she performed a sexual act on Gingrich in a Washington, D.C. hotel room, but adds that they didn’t have sex so that “he could say he had not slept with me.”
“He always talks about being big on family values but he doesn’t practice what he preaches,” Manning said, according to London’s Daily Mail newspaper. “I wasn’t planning to say a word about him, but voters need to know what sort of man they’re being asked to support.”
Manning first alleged in 1995 that she had had an affair with Gingrich, telling Vanity Fair, “We had oral sex. He prefers that modus operandi because then he can say, ‘I never slept with her.’”
One has to wonder if this is just the beginning of women coming forward to tell their own Gingrich stories, a situation that mirrors what happened to former GOP candidate Herman Cain.