Posted on 12/15/2011 1:38:05 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Newt Gingrich’s campaign released a list of 55 supporters in Iowa today, but the announcement is filled with errors and inaccuracies. Along with several misspellings, the campaign claims State Senator David Johnson from Osceola County is one of 14 elected officials who endorsed Gingrich.
“That’s not correct,” Johnson tells TheIowaRepublican.com. “I have not endorsed Speaker Gingrich. I think there is confusion on that campaign.” The Gingrich campaign press release also misspelled Osceola County as “Osceloa County”.
Johnson says the Gingrich campaign reached out to him, but he made it clear his allegiance lies with Texas governor Rick Perry. “It’s interesting because I was contacted by a member of the campaign staff earlier this month and he was asking me, ‘Do I want to switch my endorsement to the speaker’. And I said no.”
Despite Perry’s tumble in the polls, Johnson’s support remains steadfast. “I endorsed Governor Perry before he even announced. I still have a Perry bumper sticker on the back of my car,” he said.
Other errors in the press release include misspelling Iowa House representative Josh Byrnes’ name as “Josh Byres”, former congressional candidate Pat Bertroche as “Pat Batroche”, and claiming Charlie Gruschow is the “Tea Party of Iowa Founder”. Gruschow is the founder of the Tea Party of America. He is also a Gingrich campaign staffer.
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Newt needs to fire his proofreader, I think.
Clearly Newt can’t spell. He should be disqualified.
Wow...these attacks get more desperate by the minute.
I thought Perry supporters found this line of attack adolescent and unacceptable, not to mention irrelevant.
I guess you guys are just mad it wasn’t you using those tactics.
With this post, you not longer have the right to complain when someone blasts Perry for his gaffes.
It seems this is entirely appropriate for the campaign of Governor Perry. When your candidate is weak, attack the grammar.
Wow...these attacks get more desperate by the minute.
No "attack." Not a "gaffe." Just sloppy.
Boy you guys are thinned-skinned.
I think Newt is cute next to the elephant.
You’re known as such a kind sensitive poster that I truly hope you fully recover from such a vile story. /S
You know I’m not a fan of Rick Perry but he got a bit of a plug last night from Limbaugh along with Bachmann and Santorum as the solid unapologetic conservatives in the race. He believes that those 3 would be the ones who would always work for us.
Romney and Gingrich are too willing to be all things to all people.
Well, not a big problem, although I thought Newt was a pro, and one of the first things a pro should learn is not to misspell their supporters’ names.
On the other hand, it sounds as if Kevin Hall of The Iowa Republican has a problem with Newt.
Charlie Gruschow is the “Tea Party of Iowa Founder”. Gruschow is the founder of the Tea Party of America. He is also a Gingrich campaign staffer.
It would be very embarrasing if a campaign staffer endorsed a DIFFERENT candidate. Not so much of a story if they endorse the guy they are working for.
Sure are a lot of "Tea party" organizations, and a lot of "founders".
Kinda cute holding hands with Arafat, too. ;)
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/gingrich-met-yasser-arafat-150943604.html
Indeed! Rush is beginning to telegraph that the time is upon us to get behind a conservative.....
He’s right.
State Senator endorses candidate A.
Candidate B and publishes an ad erroneously claiming the State Senator's endorsement and becomes front-runner.
State Senator figures he's better off with the new front-runner and starts showing up at candidate B's campaign appearances.
I haven't worked the rest out yet.
Maybe she just saw how important Newt supporters thought it was to be perfect, and how seriously they thought minor gaffes were, and how disqualifying it would be for a candidate to make a gaffe, and decided they needed all the information.
Or maybe, just maybe, falsely reporting endorsements is a bit more than just a “gaffe”. Romney was blasted mercilessly in 2008 for simply IMPLYING that he had an endorsement that he didn’t have back in 2004. Here we have a candidate publicly announcing an endorsement that he not only has, but that the campaign specifically KNEW was for someone else (hence the campaign request for the guy to CHANGE his endorsement, which he refused to do).
I suppose you’d feel a bit upset if I started telling everybody here that you had endorsed Ron Paul.
Whoa!
Meantime Gov. Perry’s been working with and defending Israel since 1989 when he set up the Texas-Israel Exchange which promoted information and research sharing. Gov. Perry Received Defender of Jerusalem Award Thursday in 2009. He wrote Eric Holder and told him to stop and prosecute Americans that were trying to run the Israeli blockade, and stood with their leaders when Obama started spouting off about old borders....
It happens to all campaigns.
It just seemed this should a lot all at one time, which reinforces the word out there that Gingrich is a terrible manager, organizer......off on the next idea.
Perry is the real conservative who can win.
-—”Maybe she just saw how important Newt supporters thought it was to be perfect, and how seriously they thought minor gaffes were, and how disqualifying it would be for a candidate to make a gaffe,”-—
Or maybe it was that everyone saw that Perry was blaming the World Trade center Bombing on Israel.
As long as we’re going to attribute things to the wrong people, let’s go whole hog!
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