People who are highly paid speakers and performers (even people who perform less than mega fees as grounds acts at fairs) often have “riders” in their contracts which specify things they insist on as perks. The Smoking Gun has HERE a copy of a Newt Gingrich contract.
It turns out he required two bathrooms.
Now, I always felt Newt had two FACES….but….
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.