Your morning jolt: Cash-starved Newt Gingrich charging $50 per photo
Aside from the shedding of reporters, other signs of a Newt Gingrich death spiral include this from the National Journal:
HOCKESSIN, Del. — In a sign that his campaign is in need of fresh funds, Newt Gingrich on Monday began charging $50 to have a photograph taken with him following a campaign speech to Republican groups here in the northernmost part of the state.
And this from the Raleigh News & Observer:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s campaign swing to North Carolina on Wednesday has been canceled, his campaign has confirmed.
There were no details available on why he had changed his plans.
Gingrich had been scheduled to make some appearances in Raleigh as part of the lead up to the May 8th primary. The change of plans was abrupt. His campaign sent out a schedule at 1 p.m. Sunday that listed a trip to North Carolina. But by Monday morning, the visit was canceled.
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In Atlanta, a bill to repay the federal government cash borrowed to pay unemployment benefits – largely by slashing future benefits — is one of the last big-ticket items facing the Legislature this session. But Labor Commissioner Mark Butler has repeatedly warned that SB 447 runs afoul of the constitutional mandate that all bills on taxation – premiums for businesses would rise slightly – begin in the House.
On Monday, the Senate Insurance and Labor Committee stripped out HB 347 inserted the contents of SB 447, giving the bill a House number and allaying any constitutional concerns. On Senate passage, HB 347 would then be returned to the House for a simple agree-disagree vote – avoiding the committee process and, perhaps, some hot debate.
And what do we lose by eviscerating HB 347? A bill to prevent future state insurance commissioners from exempting themselves from required insurance agent examinations — as did Republican John Oxendine before he left office in 2011.
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Over at Atlanta Unfiltered, Jim Walls says a complaint has been filed with the entity formerly known as the State Ethics Commission, alleging that state Sen. Don Balfour has filed false requests for reimbursements – pointing to mileage claimed while the lawmaker was out of state.
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File these two items under “Things You Need to Worry About – Tomorrow.” First, from the New York Times, a poll showing support for the war in Afghanistan dropping sharply among both Democrats and Republicans:
The survey found that more than two-thirds of those polled — 69 percent — thought that the United States should not be at war in Afghanistan. Just four months ago, 53 percent said that Americans should no longer be fighting in the conflict, more than a decade old.
And this from the Wall Street Journal:
Iran is ramping up imports of wheat, including rare purchases from the U.S., in a sign Tehran is building a strategic stockpile of grain in anticipation of harsher sanctions or even military conflict.
The country has bought wheat from the U.S., Australia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan in the past few months, and is in talks on what could be a major wheat buy from India, according to market watchers and official data.
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Finally, in celebration of U.S. Supreme Court arguments over the Obama administration’s health care overhaul, the AJC’s Politifact Georgia looks at U.S. Rep. Tom Price’s claim that the 10-year cost of the changes are double the the $940 billion estimated by Democrats.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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td
March 27th, 2012
3:09 pm
Real American
March 27th, 2012
3:04 pm
Becky, you know somewhere there’s a jackal buried with no heart #cheneylives
Maybe Chaney has Trayvon’s heart now and Chaney paid Zimmerman to kill him for the heart. Let us see how long it takes for that conspiracy theory to make the rounds on the web.
Becky
March 27th, 2012
3:10 pm
That would be rich! A black man’s heart in Cheney. Love the idea.
td
March 27th, 2012
3:11 pm
Puck Refublicans
March 27th, 2012
3:05 pm
I am also a defender of the first amendment and am willing to defend your right to make asinine statements with my 2nd amendment rights.
Look before I leap...
March 27th, 2012
3:13 pm
“Maybe Chaney has Trayvon’s heart”
That was pretty callous td.
Nice Christian attitude there.
Louise
March 27th, 2012
3:13 pm
Lots of southern christians with hate in their heart. They teach hate at the 12 stones of hypocrisy church up the street from me.
honested
March 27th, 2012
3:15 pm
I wondered where the found a cold blooded Klingon to supply a heart for cheney.
td
March 27th, 2012
3:17 pm
Look before I leap…
March 27th, 2012
3:13 pm
I made the comment due to all the “callous” comments about the former VP. Why are you not calling them out also?
td
March 27th, 2012
3:30 pm
Puck Refublicans
March 27th, 2012
3:21 pm
Your name and statements prove that you are under 30.
Look before I leap...
March 27th, 2012
3:32 pm
@td
Because Cheney is not on this blog professing to be a Christian.
But, if you think people being mean to Dick Cheney is sufficient cause to reject nominal Christian values, then who the heck am I to judge? Have at it if it makes you feel better.
gm
March 27th, 2012
3:38 pm
UGA 1999
sell out arenas when they come
Once again, make millions off you idiots,
Real American
March 27th, 2012
3:41 pm
Or td, maybe he has Natalee Holloway’s….he’s been stashing her away all this time. See how that works? I wonder if you and uga were browbeating blogs back then mad at all the attention being bestowed upon one young woman. It was all day, everyday for over a year. Bet you were mad that she got all that attention huh?
gm
March 27th, 2012
3:44 pm
td
Oh I forgot hannity does not have to take to the streets when someone white gets shot by a police men, because there are no cases when white youth get shots by some neighborhood watchmen”
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 27th, 2012
3:50 pm
“By their fruits, shall ye know them.”
And really, just look at the inhabitants of this state and what they do to tell you all about them that you need to know.
Look at the Republicans.
Of course, when your preacher and your friends and your TV and your news and your radio are all telling you its OK to hate….then its easy to ignore your heart.
I’m sure the Pharisees and the Sadducees were 100% CONVINCED they were right too.
td
March 27th, 2012
4:01 pm
gm
March 27th, 2012
3:44 pm
One wonders why that is? Could it be because the white kids know not to attack the watchman in their neighborhood? Could it be because white parents teach their children to be respectful to authority? Yes, I know these are generalities because I know I have some very well behaved and mannered African Americans living in my neighborhood and have some white thugs living in it as well. You are the one making asinine statements so I am coming back with the same mentality.
td
March 27th, 2012
4:02 pm
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 27th, 2012
3:50 pm
Yes, let us listen to hip hop for a while and learn what the kids are being taught day after day.
MrLiberty
March 27th, 2012
4:04 pm
And this is someone Georgians and others want to put in charge of a 3.2 Trillion dollar budget??
Meanwhile Ron Paul is still running under budget, allows hundreds of free photos at campaign events, and just raised another $1million from small donors just last weekend. Ron Paul 2012.
td
March 27th, 2012
4:11 pm
MrLiberty
March 27th, 2012
4:04 pm
Let us not forget that his entire family is making money off of all your supporters.
Real American
March 27th, 2012
4:11 pm
17-year-olds Alex Platt, James Sung, Joseph Ferguson and Joseph Blank and 18-year-olds Christopher and Matthew Davey.
Bet td has no idea who they are.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 27th, 2012
4:15 pm
@TD – “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
Hip Hop has nothing on Fox News. Oh, and, also, of all the things you could mention, you picked a Black form of art. Coincidence? I think not.
td
March 27th, 2012
4:22 pm
Real American
March 27th, 2012
4:11 pm
Nope, are you going to educate me?
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 27th, 2012
4:24 pm
@Real American – I wager that it is nature, not nurture. I’ll wager you 12 british pounds that you can’t train that ignorant peasant guttersnipe to speak the queen’s english or present it as a civilized person.
The Rain in Spain Is Not In TD’s Brain.
Aaron Burr V Mexico
March 27th, 2012
4:35 pm
Here is what is going to happen: 1 of 2 things.
1) Real American will not respond to TD. Nothing will happen.
2) Real American will explain the list; more than likely a list of other people like Travyon who were shot for Guilty While Being Black…and TD will proceed to ignore anything Real American says, Quote Rush, Quote Fox, personally insult Real American, insist he doesn’t insult people, and then pretend all elements of the conversation never actually happened.
Real American
March 27th, 2012
5:07 pm
LMAO @ Aaron Burr……now if td was really the concerned citizen that he claims to be he would know who those fine upstanding young men that attended Northview High School are. He’s such a law and order purists but never heard of that Alpharetta “gang”?? tsk tsk tsk…thought td was more informed…guess not.
luangtom
March 27th, 2012
6:42 pm
And, how many thousands is Obama charging to visit the White House?
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