CNN Reports Gingrich Planning May Campaign Announcement

by Mark Joyella | 5:25 pm, March 9th, 2011

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CNN’s Jessica Yellin reports former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has told former staffers and supporters he is “leaning toward a yes” on a presidential run in 2012.

Gingrich, speaking on a conference call, indicated he “hopes to announce a presidential bid in late May at noon in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall,” Yellin reports. Gingrich asked for help building a national audience for the campaign kickoff via local media and social media. How serious is he “leaning?” Yellin says he’s “leaning heavily:”

In response to a question, Gingrich told the group “corporate PACs can give $5,000 and obviously we’d be thrilled to have as many of them sign up as early as possible.”

In an apparent reference to the Contract with America that helped make him speaker in the 1990s he told the group “the campaign I want to build would have a contract in late September of 12″ and help “build the party across the board.”

Several times Gingrich pointed out that “for legal reasons” he can’t say too much – “we are still in the exploratory phase,” but he has lined up the beginning of a campaign rollout. He expects former Georgia Senator Zell Miller to be a co-chair “once we put the campaign together.” He says his campaign would be headquartered in Atlanta.

CNN reports Gingrich is trying to recruit supporters in key states like Iowa. A Gingrich aide said he’s planning direct mail solicitations starting next week and telemarketing efforts beginning this week.

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

RUN, NEWT, RUN!
jbeast

Translation: Everyone is hating on me right now. I’ll wait a couple months.
ImNotBlue

I doubt that Newt can win… but in a head to head match with Obama, he will knock the O-man down a few pegs… and that won’t necessarily be a bad thing.

But we must face a reality about Obama… even if he is bested in every single debate, there are plenty of people who will march in lockstep and pull the lever again and again.
THE REAL ROYAL KING

Newt-Huntsman ’12
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

All right, I waited to see who would come forward to tout the Newter. Diidn’t happen.
Stick a fork in his @ss and turn him over. He’s done.
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who gives a damn about Newt?

No one, well maybe his ex apprentice (Hannity).
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American as some think, it was directed at WALL STREET when he did the basement before he went for the top of those towers. Wall Street is like some bad kids in our family and they need butt kicked big time, otherwise picking on the working class amounts to additional gangster-ism.