2012 Presidential Campaign Blog

Mississippi Republican Party Statement On Eve Of The Presidential Primary

Mississippi Republican Party Statement On Eve Of The Presidential Primary
 
JACKSON- Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Joe Nosef released the following statement as Mississippians head to the polls tomorrow to cast their ballots in the presidential preference primary:
 
“With 40 delegates on the line, Mississippi is a key state in the selection of the Republican nominee for president and Republican voters are excited to play an important part in this process. Over the past week, multiple candidates for president have visited every corner of the state giving voters the opportunity to hear from them first hand. Tomorrow, Mississippians will have the ability to help choose a conservative candidate who can create jobs, turn the economy around, and defeat Barack Obama in November.”

Newt Gingrich Illinois Schedule March 14-15, 2012 *Updated

Newt Gingrich Illinois Schedule March 14-15, 2012 *Updated

March 14

Newt calls in to Don Wade & Roma
March 14, 2012 – 8:05am CT
WLS, Chicago, IL

Newt calls in to John Williams’ radio show
March 14, 2012 – 2:45pm CT
WGN, Chicago, IL

Rosemont Rally with Newt and Callista
March 14, 2012 -3:30pm – 4:15pm CT
Donald E. Stephens Convention Center
9301 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue
Rosemont, IL 60018
Note: This event is free and open to the public.

Newt speaks at the Northwest Suburban Republican 2012 Lincoln Day Dinner
March 14, 2012 - 7:15pm – 8:30pm CT
The Cotillion
360 South Creekside Drive
Palatine, IL 60074.

Newt is interviewed by Greta van Susteren
March 14, 2012 – 9:00pm CT / 10:00pm ET
Fox News
March 15

Newt speaks at Barrington High School
March 15, 2012 - 9:00am – 10:00am CT
616 W. Main Street
Barrington, IL 60010

Callista visits the Goddard School
March 15, 2012 - 9:00am – 10:00am CT
The Goddard School
4561 Princeton Lane
Lake in the Hills, IL 60156
Note: Mrs. Gingrich will tour the school and read “Sweet Land of Liberty” to students.

Hispanic Town Hall Meeting with Newt and Callista
March 15, 2012 - 10:30am – 11:30am CT
Herrick Chapel at Judson University
1151 N. State Street
Elgin, IL 60123
Note: This event is free and open to the public.

Callista visits Sunny Hill School
March 15, 2012 – 11am – 12pm CT
2500 Helm Road
Carpentersville, IL
Note: Mrs. Gingrich will tour the school and read “Sweet Land of Liberty” to students.

Newt and Callista tour OTTO Engineering
March 15, 2012 – 1pm – 2pm CT
OTTO Engineering
2 East Main Street
Carpentersville, IL 60110

Lake in the Hills Rally with Newt and Callista
March 15, 2012 – 2:30pm – 3:30pm CT
Lake in the Hills Airport
8585 Pyott Road
Lake in the Hills, IL 60156
Note: This event is free and open to the public

Ron Paul will speak at the University of Missouri on Thursday, March 15, 2012

Ron Paul at the University of Missouri - Youth for Ron Paul

Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 12:00 PM (CT)

Where:

Carnahan Quadrangle
Missouri Avenue
Columbia, MO 65211

Hosted By:
Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Committee

Join Ron Paul for an on-campus town hall at the University of Missouri.

Presidential candidate Ron Paul will speak at the Carnahan Quadrangle at 12:00 PM on Thursday, March 15, 2012.

Ron Paul to Hold Massive Town Hall Meeting in Missouri
Holds voter outreach event at Mizzou with ‘Youth for Ron Paul’ as Show-Me State caucuses occur

ST. LOUIS, Missouri – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul will hold a giant town hall meeting in Missouri ahead of the state’s county caucuses that begin today and continue through Saturday, March 24th.
 
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place on the University of Missouri’s Mel Carnahan Quadrangle - The South Quad, located along Missouri Avenue in Columbia.  Doors open to the public at 11:30 a.m. CST.
 
The University of Missouri event is being organized by ‘Youth for Ron Paul’(YFP), an initiative of the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign.  Since ‘Youth for Ron Paul’ launched in September, students nationwide have organized 583 chapters and recruited more than 46,000 people.
 
“Ron Paul continues to draw sizable crowds on college campuses across the nation because young people embrace his message of individual liberty, lasting prosperity, and a smart foreign policy that keeps America safe.  Last week in Kansas more than 2,100 attended a YFP-hosted town hall meeting, and I’m confident that Mizzou students will turn out in even greater numbers. Ron Paul is the sole candidate who generates enthusiasm among young people, and he's the only one who can challenge President Obama for this key demographic come November,” said Edward King, National Youth Director for the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign.
 
“The tremendous support youth regularly give Ron Paul across America is the envy of every other campaign.  Dr. Paul succeeds in conveying that his message of fiscal restraint, constitutionally-limited government, and individual liberty is the only platform that resonates with younger voters and unites our country's next generation—the very people who will deal with today’s wasteful government overspending,” said Ani DeGroot, Midwest Regional Director for the Ron Paul 2012 Presidential campaign.
 
Details of the event are as follows.  Time is Central.
 
Thursday, March 15, 2012
 
12:00 p.m.
Ron Paul Campus Town Hall Meeting
Carnahan Quadrangle - The South Quad
University of Missouri
Missouri Avenue
Columbia, MO 65211
 
For a map of the location, please click here.

Ron Paul Hawaii Team Welcomes Hawaii Bar Owners Association Endorsement

Ron Paul Hawaii Team Welcomes Hawaii Bar Owners Association Endorsement

HONOLULU, Hawaii – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul, who consistently fights against government encroachment into the private sector and who is the sole presidential candidate who champions ending taxes on gratuities, was endorsed today by the Hawaii Bar Owners Association.
 
The Hawaii Bar Owners Association represents over 100 establishments, and is known for its defense against regulations governing how small businesses and larger establishments are permitted to operate in areas such as licensing, and smoke or smoke-free environment provision.
 
The endorsement statement is attributed to the organization’s spokesman, Bill Comerford, who is a partner in a company that operates three Hawaiian Irish pubs—Kelley O’Neil’s, O’Toole’s Irish Pub and the Irish Rose Saloon.
 
The full Hawaii Bar Owners Association statement follows.
 
The Hawaii Bar Owners Association supports the principles of Ron Paul. 
 
Though one could support any Republican candidate for President in the need to counter a runaway government, Ron Paul’s views on government follow the best solutions to current government interference in our daily business lives.
 
Simply stated there is too much government involvement in our daily business operations nationally and particularly here in Hawaii.  In Hawaii we are most likely the most government-burdened state in the union.  We find regulation and ensuing counter-regulation crisscrossing across a bloated City and County, State and Federal Government, none of which care to confer in writing law and each who sees themselves as the most important branch resulting in too many laws, and often laws that conflict with each other. 
 
As a highly regulated industry this leaves us in the bar industry at the whim of government often waiting more than a year to open at much government-directed expense and then finding a morass of regulations impeding your business forcing you to respond to myriad reactionary laws.  And upon complying, you find that those laws change once again.  This incurs a huge expense.  We all like to play by rules and business relies upon those essential rules remaining the same.  This allows you to take the risk of creating and supporting your business plan.  Would you risk financial ruin for small returns on a business in Hawaii where the rules change weekly, monthly or annually depending upon which government agency is involved?  As children we learn that the rules are important if you keep changing them your friends don’t come back to play, such is the case in Hawaii for the business community.  We don’t make the rules we just have to play by them.  Government makes the rules and always changes them to their advantage thus business does not want to “play.”  Hawaii continues to be the most difficult state in which to operate a business.
 
Rules exist and they should remain simple that is what we all rely upon.  The main framework for rules is the federal and state constitutions.  They are the foundations upon which everything is built.  Follow the basic rules and eliminate the reactionary interference of all governments to micromanage every issue and create more new and specific law to handle minor situations.  The Hawaii legislature introduced more than 2,000 bills this session.  Many of these bills would not stand up to constitutional challenges.  These new regulations always require monitoring and supervision thus the need for new agencies and new government employees.  Government’s answer is to create those jobs and fund them through increased taxes and fees.  These new agencies demand new laws to empower them and thus more specific law is required.  This creates a spiral of continual government, taxes, and regulation.  Cut the cord on these issues, simplify government.
 
Stop feeding unions, non-profit health groups and multiple layers of government through our taxes.  Allow simple clean rules and let businesses grow.  Fund our government liabilities such as government pension funds and unemployment funds.  Don’t let our legislatures spend every dollar in front of them and rein in government wastefulness.  Reduce the bloat, 1 in 5 adults in Hawaii is on a government payroll or pension the other 4 carry too heavy a burden to support this continually.
Support common sense, constitutionalism and free choice, reduce government, and its expense and debt.
 
We would invite Ron Paul to run for governor here in Hawaii if he were not running for president.  Support candidates like Ron Paul.
 
Bill Comerford
Spokesman
Hawaii Bar Owners Association

Christian Singer And Three-Time Grammy Winner Michael W. Smith Endorses Rick Santorum For President

CHRISTIAN SINGER AND THREE-TIME GRAMMY WINNER MICHAEL W. SMITH ENDORSES SANTORUM FOR PRESIDENT
 
Verona, PA - The Rick Santorum for President Campaign is proud to announce that it has received the endorsement of Michael W. Smith.

Michael W. Smith said: "Rick has been a friend for many years and know him personally as a man of strong faith, character and conviction. He is committed to his family and has consistently and faithfully served our country.  Rick has fought for life, for marriage and for the least of these. And that is why I support my friend - Rick Santorum.  We need a leader who will stand fast to his convictions and lead our country with an unwavering moral compass.  I know Rick Santorum to be a man of great character - and worthy of the office of President of the United States."

Michael W. Smith is one of Christian contemporary music's most awarded and renowned artists - winning three Grammy Awards and 40 Dove Awards.  Smith has sold more than 13 million albums, recorded 29 number one hits, 14 Gold Albums, and 5 Platinum Albums.  Smith is active in charity work, including serving as an avid spokesperson for sponsoring children through Compassion International.

Chuck Norris Call Encourages Voters in Alabama and Mississippi to Support Gingrich

Chuck Norris Call Encourages Voters in Alabama and Mississippi to Support Gingrich

Atlanta, GA – The Gingrich campaign has launched a new robo-call today featuring Chuck Norris, who has endorsed Newt Gingrich for president.

In the robo-call, which will reach voters across both Alabama and Mississippi states, Norris highlights Gingrich as the only candidate who can defeat President Obama "head to head" and touts Gingrich's job-creation record as Speaker of the House as well as the candidate's American energy plan for $2.50/gallon gasoline.

The transcript is below:

"Hello, this is Chuck Norris. As my wife Gina and I watched the GOP debate and went to their website we were trying to decide which of the candidates would be best to do head to head combat with President Obama. Now, I didn't say hand to hand combat, even though I think they would win there too.

"Gina and I decided that Newt Gingrich would be the best man to beat President Obama.  Under Newt's leadership, the budget was balanced, taxes were cut, and we began to pay down our debt. His policies helped create 11 million new jobs. As president, Newt will repeal Obamacare, get rid of Obama's czars, and use commonsense measures, like building the Keystone Pipeline to lower the cost of gas to two and half dollars a gallon.

"The election is too important to get wrong.  We need a bold conservative leader to take on President Obama. We need Newt Gingrich. When you vote this Tuesday, please join me in supporting Newt Gingrich for president."

Newt Gingrich: "This message was paid for by Newt 2012."

The Local Premiere of the "The Road We've Traveled" Barack Obama Documentary will take place on Thursday, March 15, 2012 in Minneapolis

Thursday: "The Road We've Traveled" premiere in Minneapolis

What: The Road We've Traveled screening in Minneapolis

Where: 601 Main Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414

When: Thursday, March 15th
7:00 pm

Newt Gingrich Communications Director Joe DeSantis Responds to Jay Carney on Gas Prices

Gingrich Spox Responds to Jay Carney on Gas Prices

Atlanta, GA – Newt Gingrich Communications Director Joe DeSantis released the following statement responding to Jay Carney’s assertion that saying we can return to $2.50 gas “is lying.”

“On the issue of gasoline prices, Newt Gingrich has the White House running scared and running on empty.  That’s a truth the White House cannot deny.  Polls show the American people reject President Obama’s excuses and fantasy solutions like algae.  They want Newt’s $2.50 gas plan to dramatically increase domestic oil production so we can get lower prices at the pump.”

Background: As Holman W. Jenkins noted in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, an aggressive program to develop more American energy would rapidly drop the price of oil due to the expectation of increased supply, making $2.50 gas achievable in a very short period of time.  LINK: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204781804577271221189284122.html

Matt Romney Holds Meet & Greet in Hawaii on Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Matt Romney Holds Meet & Greet in Hawaii

Boston, MA – On Tuesday, Matt Romney will attend a meet-and-greet in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Event: Honolulu Meet & Greet

When: 11:45 AM HDT

Location:                 

Hawaii Republican Party
725 Kapiolani Boulevard
#C-105
Honolulu, Hawaii

Mitt Romney Announces Support of Hawaii House Minority Leader Gene Ward, & Former State Senators Fred Hemmings & Fred Rohlfing

MITT ROMNEY ANNOUNCES SUPPORT OF HAWAII HOUSE MINORITY LEADER GENE WARD, AND FORMER STATE SENATORS FRED HEMMINGS AND FRED ROHLFING

Boston, MA – Mitt Romney today announced the support of Minority Leader Gene Ward, recently-retired Hawaii State Senator Fred Hemmings, and former State Senator Fred Rohlfing. They join former Congressman Charles Djou and former Congresswoman Pat Saiki in endorsing Mitt Romney.

“I’m heartened to have such growing support in Hawaii,” said Mitt Romney. “Leader Ward and Senators Hemmings and Rohlfing share my values of empowering small businesses and rebuilding the middle class through conservative pro-growth policies. I look forward to working with them to create more jobs, cut wasteful government spending, and reduce the size of government.”

Announcing his support, Minority Leader Gene Ward said, “Hawaii voters looking for a change of direction in Washington should look no further than Mitt Romney. Mitt spent his life in the private sector and will use this knowledge to restart our economy, bring back jobs, and fix the fiscal mess that has long plagued our federal government. I am proud to endorse him and urge fellow Hawaii voters to support him on Tuesday.”

“Washington insiders got us into this mess, we shouldn’t expect them to help get us out of it,” said former State Senator Fred Hemmings. “Mitt Romney has spent his life as a conservative businessman. He has a record of balancing budgets and creating jobs. That’s precisely what we need in a president today. The people of Hawaii know our nation needs a change and we cannot afford to stay on the path to bankruptcy. I know that Mitt Romney has the proven experience and the ability to restore America’s promise.  This is an election where we are not only electing a president and I know Mitt Romney will return America to prosperity.”

Background On Gene Ward, Fred Hemmings and Fred Rohlfing:

Gene Ward Is The Hawaii House Minority Leader. Ward is a former Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Malaysia and as Peace Corps Country Director in East Timor. He served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1990-1998 and from 2006 to the present. Ward serves on the Finance, Hawaiian Affairs, International Affairs, and Legislative Management Committees.

Fred Hemmings Served Ten Years In The Hawaii State Senate. He previously served six years in the Hawaii State House of Representatives. Before his career in politics, Hemmings was Hawaii's first world champion surfer. After retiring from competition, he is credited with being the “father of Professional surfing.” Fred is a respected sportsman and community leader in Hawaii.

Fred Rohlfing Is A Former Hawaii State Senator. A lifelong Hawaii resident, Rohlfing served for over 20 years in the state legislature and was a Naval Reserve Intelligence Officer.