Gingrich event disrupted by protesters
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 15th, 2011 5:35 am by HL
Gingrich event disrupted by protesters
IOWA CITY — Protesters disrupted a Newt Gingrich campaign event at the University of Iowa on Wednesday, shouting for minutes about the candidate’s positions on child labor and Palestine until security removed them from the auditorium.
“Let the speaker speak,” his supporters in the room yelled as the protesters left.
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Gingrich at University of Iowa: ‘I want to talk to you about brain science’
IOWA CITY, Iowa — On Wednesday afternoon, orthopedic surgeon Reginald Cooper stopped in front of a door at the University of Iowa hoping to catch up with Newt Gingrich.
Gingrich, who was speaking to medical students before an address about the importance of brain science research, befriended Cooper about two years ago on a four-week sweep through Africa. Cooper said Gingrich and about 70 other holiday makers took a reconfigured 757 to a series of nations for a series of safaris. He recalled Gingrich and his wife Callista tracking gorillas in Rwanda for eight hours and posing for pictures with lemurs in Madagascar. Cooper said he talked about a variety of issues on the trip with Gingrich, whom he called a “real trooper,” including wildlife, the economy and science.
