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DES MOINES, Iowa -- Two staffers that left Newt Gingrich’s Iowa campaign during a staff exodus this summer are back with the campaign and become its first two paid staffers in the Hawkeye State.
Craig Schoenfeld and Katie Koberg have rejoined the former House speaker’s campaign as senior advisers in charge of running caucus operations, spokesman R.C. Hammond told NBC News Thursday.
“Usually we take small steps ahead but this is a pretty big one,” Hammond said.
Schoenfeld, who was the Iowa executive director, now becomes senior advisor and Koberg his deputy.
After 18 people left the Gingrich campaign in June -- including six Iowa staffers -- many wrote the former speaker off as having any chance to win the first-in-the-nation caucus state. Now, five months later, with no clear frontrunner in Iowa, the campaign has new life, increased fundraising, and is rising in the polls.
During Schoenfeld’s absence from the Gingrich campaign, he led efforts in Iowa for Americans for Rick Perry -- the independent expenditure committee that helped spread interest in a Perry presidential run just before the Ames Straw Poll.
But when Perry did enter the race, members of the group were forced to wait 120 days before they could have any contact with the Texas governor's campaign -- a period which has still not come to a close. Schoenfeld, a lawyer based in West Des Moines, joined Strong America Now, a nonprofit organization which urges presidential candidates to support policies that eliminate government deficits while not raising taxes.
More paid staff announcements are pending as well as the opening of seven campaign offices statewide.
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Gingrich is similar to Romney. They have both made a career out of running for the presidency. And looking at the map, there is no way Gingrich wins the nomination. He's a lobbyist. A well paid inside the beltway lobbyist. That's how he makes his living.
Is Romney going on any talk shows this weekend? I know Newt will go on any show, any time, any place.
btw, is it true Newt has a Tiffany's diamond studded belly button?
Nah Pat - you have to dive a wee bit deeper!
The 'twins' are well covered... ;o)
btw Newt, Cain has a leg up on you. Pizza is now considered a vegetable. Cain 1, Newt 0.
Feisty, yeah I should have dug a little deeper. LoL.
@Feisty
Hubby still in fetal position: "No newt, no newt, no newt"
Socialists. Communists. Facism. Democracy.
So there is a Russian Revolution way back when. These revolutionaries were anti-war and from what we know, most of the leaders of the Revolution were Jewish. The revolutionaries considered themselves socialists. There is no question that life in Russia for the people was unpleasant to say the least, under the Tsar regimes. No question. They had nothing.
But Lenin & their revolution went too far. They killed the Tsar, the Tsarina and their beautiful children. This is what became of the Russian Revolution. And it was awful.
So what happened in Germany during this time? Germany was a Christian nation and to them the communists were all Jews who killed the Tsar and wanted to make Germany an unChristian nation. The communists in Germany were violent. Although it's not true that they burnt down the Reichstag.
So what happened?
Well, we saw the rise of Nazism in answer to the communists. And Hitler, a communist hater, decided that all things must be blamed on the Jews from now on. And it worked.
One was as bad as the other. They traded one extreme for another. Communism for Fascism. Stalin. Hitler. Hitler gets all the bad press, but Stalin was in many ways worse, if you can imagine.
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All we want here in America is a democracy. There is no need to beat each other up. There is no need to bring about voter suppression. There is no need to call Democrats socialists or communists. It's not the Democratic politicans who are instituting voter suppression. Stuff like this happened in Germany under Hitler. And it happened in the south just a few generations ago.
What we need to do is listen to each other. Stop the bullying, stop the tear gassing, stop the violence, stop the voter suppression.
Stop the madness and get this country back on track. And if it means protesting, so be it. It's the only way ANYONE will listen. It is not unAmerican to protest. It is the most American thing you can do. Don't ridicule it. Our only mistake was waiting too long to do it. We were too believing in our system for too long.
Well, we were wrong. Our system isn't fair and we the working people, the poor, the middle class - are not to blame. And it's high time we STOPPED getting the blame for what our leaders have gotten away with for too long.
We shouldn't ask other countries "why?" when we ourselves have stood by silently while our leaders have exploited every one of us.
Newt is not the answer. He's part of the problem.
Well said Pat. I wish everyone would read and get it. Kudos!
Here's a another doozie! Apparently Newt founded a think tank called Center For Health Transformation. He made over 37 million dollars in this endeavor. Of all things this group promoted health insurance mandates for anyone making 50K or post a bond.
Wasn't he just bragging he would repeal Obamacare over mandates???
This guy really puts new meaning behind the word hypocrite.
Link to WaPo article below:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gingrich-think-tank-collected-millions-from-health-care-industry/2011/11/16/gIQAcd72VN_story.html?hpid=z1
Correction to above post: The group took in over 37 million dollars...not sure what Newts take was.
Newton will have his day or twp in the sun then he will be knocked back down to Earth. Way too many skeletons in his big ol' closet. It will be Romney for the repubs he never goes up or down much.
Hillary 2012
Sorry you guys. That is just one baaaaaad visual.
I wonder who he's trying to shag now? I mean the dude screws around with every lady he marries, so he must be boinking someone behind Callista's back already.
I don't get what makes Newtie such a babe magnet. Maybe it's me. Cause when I look at the germ I see a flab glacier who looks like an older grey-haired Jack Black with a voice like Kermit the Frog.
Maybe when women look at him they see George Clooney, Hugh Jackman or Gerard Butler.
Sorry, but not getting it here................
Can I just say, "Ewwww"
GOPisExtinct,
Who's he trying to shag now?? It sure ain't Feisty. Even Newt has scruples. LOL
Tiffanys! These 'ladies" can retire on the proceeds of their jewelry collections.
Tiffanys! These 'ladies" can retire on the proceeds of their jewelry collections.
Maybe they think they're Pat Paulson.
Hooray Smothers Brothers! (And Laugh In) Sock it to me!
now the doughboy could claim himself as a "job creator"...
Who cares?
No more taxes, but end social security and medicare and food stamps,let them starve! Then end a women right to choose.Stop the gays in the military from marriage. Make prayer in the public schools a law. Support the GOP its time to take the country back. GOP GOP GOP 2012 america! Its time the GOP controls you!
THE Obama - Newt debates are going to make history , they will go down in History as the greatest Debates of all time, the SUPER BOWL OF DEBATES
Gingrich won't have the chance to debate Obama. We've had the flavor of the month in the teapublican party, Palin, Trump, Bachmann, Cain, etc. but Newt isn't going to last even that long. He is by far the most corrupt politician over the last 20 years and no doubt one of the most corrupt of all times. The bottom line is Romney will be the teapublican nominee and President Obama will be reelected.
EVERY AMERICAN should watch the video ( u-tube ) THE AGENDA GRINDING AMERICA DOWN ,this started in 1958 ,IT must be understood Obama is their man The Democratic party has become their party , The Republicans are not innocent But we are changing the Republican party
It is only logical that The Party of Not Just Me But Me First should be flooded with so many candidates who are for their separate selves before anyone else. Theodore Roosevelt was a proponent of rugged individualism. We now seemingly have the contradiction in terms of a gaggle of rabid individualists.
Career Presidential candidate and continual LOSER and HYPOCRITE - very tired of the string of front runners and the people that support their pathetic backgrounds.