Posted on 11/27/2011 12:06:39 AM PST by TitansAFC
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 campaigns 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., hell be doing an outdoor Town Hall meeting in the Promenade. Its 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, didnt have a turnout estimate. Im expecting a fairly large crowd, though, he said last week. Its 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 campaigns 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.
GINGRICH WINS LOCAL STRAW POLL
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.
Davis is on the Tuesday rally bill, too.
IF YOU GO
What: Newt Gingrich campaign rally
When: 1-2:30 p.m. Tuesday
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.
Yes, yes, yes....please put me on your ping list!
And FYI, I hope you have a flack jacket.....there’s lots of flack headed your way.
Hank
Yes, please.
The Conservative who practices Capitalism and gets hated for it!
...by both sides!
Herman Cain got 33.... LOL
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.
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.
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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