A professor who was hired and quickly dismissed as historian of the U.S. House of Representatives says she wants to run for Congress against the man who fired her, House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). Soon after Gingrich hired Christina Jeffrey, a professor of political science at Kennesaw State University in Georgia in 1994, she was dismissed after it became known that Jeffrey helped block federal financing for an educational program about the Holocaust on the grounds that it did not represent the views of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
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