Gingrich to campaign at Bluffton rally (Newt Wins SC Straw Poll)

Newt Gingrich will bring his surging campaign for the Republican presidential nomination to Bluffton on Tuesday for an outdoor rally.

The former U.S. House speaker from Georgia will campaign at the Calhoun Street Promenade in Old Town, said James Epley, the Gingrich campaign’s Beaufort County manager.

First, at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, he will go to a campaign office opening and ribbon cutting ceremony at 6 Promenade St., Suite 1001 B.

Then, “from 1 to 2:30 p.m., he’ll be doing an outdoor Town Hall meeting in the Promenade. It’s open to the public,” Epley said. The free event will be in St. Joseph Park in the center of the Promenade.

Epley, owner of Arbor GreenBuilders on Hilton Head Island, didn’t have a turnout estimate. “I’m expecting a fairly large crowd, though,” he said last week. It’s recommended to bring a lawn chair for seating.

“I picked Bluffton,” Epley said. “I chose Bluffton because I thought it was centrally located for everyone in Beaufort County.”

The Huffington Post last week reported four new national polls showed Gingrich edging ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the first choice among Republicans for president.

The Bluffton stops are on a three-day, South Carolina swing by Gingrich and his wife, Callista Gingrich, with stops Monday in Charleston, Tuesday morning on Hilton Head, Tuesday night in Newberry, and Wednesday morning in Greenville, according to a schedule from the campaign’s state director, Adam Waldeck.

On Hilton Head, Newt Gingrich will attend two fundraisers at the Crazy Crab restaurant, 104 William Hilton Parkway. The first, from 8-9 a.m. Tuesday, will be a private breakfast for donors of $500 and up and has limited availability. At the second, from 9:15-10:30 a.m., a $50 donation will get you coffee and pastries with Gingrich. Reservations are requested by emailing Epley at newt2012sc@gmail.com or calling him at 422-3409.

Callista Gingrich, president of Gingrich Productions, from 10-11:30 a.m. Tuesday will be at Hilton Head Christian Academy for a book reading and then leave before the Bluffton campaigning.

According to Epley, Gingrich as of last week had nine paid staff members in South Carolina, more than any of the other candidates.

The South Carolina Republican Party has scheduled its first-in-the-South presidential primary for Jan. 21.

Coinciding with his rise in professional political polls, Gingrich won a Republican presidential straw poll at an event sponsored by local tea parties and the College Republicans of the University of South Carolina Beaufort.

The Bluffton, Hilton Head Island and Beaufort tea parties joined the College Republicans as co-sponsors of the Nov. 15 event at the Bluffton campus.

Before the straw poll, all candidates were represented by short videos or comments from a tea party member. Also, state Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, spoke, “highlighting unique strengths of each GOP presidential candidate,” according to a news release from Deb Welch of the Hilton Head Island TEA Party.

Of the 171 votes cast, Gingrich received 100, Herman Cain got 33, and Michele Bachmann got 18. The remaining 20 votes were spread among Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, and Rick Perry, with none among them getting more than eight votes.

Candidates who qualified to be on South Carolina Republican primary ballot are U.S. Rep. Bachmann of Minnesota, Georgia businessman Cain, Gingrich, former Utah Gov. Huntsman, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, U.S. Rep. Paul of Texas, Texas Gov. Perry, Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Santorum

Also at the straw poll event, “the Hilton Head Island TEA Party presented Sen. Davis with a plaque honoring him for his conservative principles and commitment to TEA Party core values: free market economy, constitutional government, and fiscal responsibility,” the release said.

Where: St. Joseph Park, the green in the center of the Calhoun Street Promenade in downtown Bluffton

Details: The former U.S. House speaker seeking the Republican nomination for president will have a “Town Hall meeting” free and open to the public.

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2 posted on 11/27/2011 12:07:47 AM PST by TitansAFC (Mr. Cain, infanticide is not a "social decision," and it SHOULD be part of the political discussion!)

Yes, yes, yes....please put me on your ping list!

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3 posted on 11/27/2011 12:16:49 AM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball (Screw it. Newt's the smartest candidate and the guy I want to see debating Obummer. Flame away.)

The Conservative who practices Capitalism and gets hated for it!

...by both sides!

5 posted on 11/27/2011 12:55:30 AM PST by jessduntno ("They say the world has become too complex for simple answers... they are wrong." - RR)

6 posted on 11/27/2011 12:59:39 AM PST by Fred ("The terrorists' want to kill us, so we need to kill them first!" http://hermancain.com)

7 posted on 11/27/2011 1:19:42 AM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-Bolton-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")

Romney rcvd a grand total of 4 votes! Go Willard!

And FWIW,

Newt Gingrich Gets Big New Hampshire Endorsement Fox News – 13 minutes ago

AP Fox News has learned that former speaker of the US House and current GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will receive the coveted endorsement of the highly-influential New Hampshire newspaper “The Manchester Union Leader,” …

This unfortunately represents bandwagon voters rather than some solid wall of support.

And at this point Newt can basically say he is for gay marriage and most of those people will still vote for him since we have run out of candidates to abandon over trivial stuff.

10 posted on 11/27/2011 3:26:19 AM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters.)

Oh this was at Hilton head, the retirement mecca of the FBI and other over paid government employees. Why did no one say that.

11 posted on 11/27/2011 3:29:26 AM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters.)

The media will love Newt as our candidate, they will dreg up every unfavorable story and plaster it daily on the news.

Obie will be reelected if we continue our lunacy of electing someone like Newt.

12 posted on 11/27/2011 4:03:03 AM PST by Evergolightly (Ones conclusions are founded in the path traveled.)

I am surprised that South Carolina gave Newt the win with all the adultery that he has done. I thought the people of South Carolina had principles. Why are they selling their soul?

13 posted on 11/27/2011 5:06:43 AM PST by napscoordinator (Anybody but Romney, Newt, Perry, Huntsman, Paul. Perry and Obama are 100 percent the same!!!!!)

I'm a Hermanator but since I live and vote {only one time} in PA, my vote may or may not be useful to Herman.

If he is gone and Newt is still in the running, I'll go Newt, if both are in the race, I'm not leaving Herman.

If neither are in the race, I'm not sure what I'll do, but I've got about 6 months to see what happens.

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