Iowa activists reevaluating Newt Gingrich’s candidacy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 20th, 2011 5:35 am by HL
Iowa activists reevaluating Newt Gingrich’s candidacy
DENISON, Iowa
Nine months ago, on a frigid winter night, a small group of local Republican leaders gathered at Cronk’s Cafe in this small Iowa town to talk about the presidential campaign. They had a dim view of Newt Gingrich that night.
Arlan Ecklund was outspoken in his criticism of the former House speaker. “I think he’s polarizing,” he said then. “I don’t think he’s electable.” Today, he has changed his mind. “The problems that face our nation are greater than they’ve ever been,” he said. “I believe he’s the one candidate who doesn’t need on-the-job training. .?.?. I think he is electable, even though he has some baggage.”
Police arrest 11 as Occupy D.C. supporters take over Franklin School building
Police arrested 11 people Saturday evening inside an abandoned historic building in downtown Washington after sympathizers of the Occupy D.C. movement took over the former homeless shelter.
The protesters, bandannas on their faces, entered the city-owned Franklin School about 3 p.m. and hung banners from the roof, reading “Public Property Under Community Control” and “Franklin for the 99 percent.”
The Clarence Thomas Interchange on Interstate 95 leads eventually to the Clarence Thomas wing of Savannah’s Carnegie Library, which is near the Clarence Thomas Center for Historical Preservation at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
But Saturday, the Supreme Court justice was 12 more miles down the road, past the city where he grew up and back to the sliver of a place where he was born, among the moss-draped live oaks and golden-brown marshes of Pin Point.
GOP candidates court conservative Christians in Iowa
DES MOINES — Looking to court this state’s critical voting bloc of evangelical Christians, Republican presidential candidates sharply attacked secularism and the Supreme Court while calling for greater restrictions on abortion and gay rights at an event here on Saturday.
At a forum on moral values, which was held at First Federated, an evangelical church in Des Moines, the six candidates in attendance largely stuck to Republican orthodoxy and avoided criticizing one another. Instead, they called for dramatic changes in current law to achieve conservative aims.
