{"id":2905,"date":"2011-09-26T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2011-09-27T10:22:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:22:07","slug":"newt-gingrich-visits-morningside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/2905","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich visits Morningside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2932\" style=\"margin: 6px\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/09\/Newt10-400x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/09\/Newt10-400x394.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/09\/Newt10-200x197.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2011\/09\/Newt10.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/>By Claire De Roin&#8211;<br \/>\n<\/strong>Presidential  candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke to a  crowd of over a hundred people Tuesday September 20th at Morningside College.<\/p>\n<p>The Yockey Room was full of mostly older Caucasians when Gingrich strolled in ten minutes late.<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich  opened with a briefing on his candidacy. \u201cNext Thursday in Des Moines, I  will reveal my new contract with America,\u201d he said. Gingrich plans to  revamp America for the 21st  century. He revealed a four-step plan: cutting taxes, cutting  regulations, developing energy, and praising the people who make it  happen.<\/p>\n<p>This  town hall meeting turned into a Democrat bashing session quickly as  Gingrich called President Obama a \u201cspoiled brat,\u201d and asked several  times of the president, \u201cWhat is he thinking?\u201d He went so far as to say  that the re-election of President Obama would result in more families on  food stamps. \u201cDo you want food stamps or pay checks?\u201d Gingrich asked,  implying that he would bring paychecks to more families. In addition,  Gingrich regularly reminded the audience of his relationship with Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>The audience broke in with applause a few times, and cries of \u201camen!\u201d could be heard over the clapping.<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich  continued to put words in Democrats\u2019 mouths. \u201cDemocrats hate the rich,  hate the productive.\u201d He then compared Democrats to alcoholics.<\/p>\n<p>Gingrich  opened the floor to the public for questions for an hour. He left the  crowd with this: \u201cI\u2019m not asking you to be for me. I\u2019m asking people to  be with me. We have a long eight years of hard work ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Claire De Roin&#8211; Presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich spoke to a crowd of over a hundred people Tuesday September 20th at Morningside College. The Yockey Room was full of mostly older Caucasians when Gingrich strolled in ten minutes late. Gingrich opened with a briefing on his candidacy. \u201cNext Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":2932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}