Jackson Free Press

From now until the Tuesday, March 13 Mississippi statewide primary, expect to see a lot of the Republican presidential candidates in Jackson and other cities around the state. The Mississippi GOP released a schedule this afternoon of campaign stops for several of the hopefuls. Below are the times and dates for each as provided by the state Republican Party:

Jackson- Rally at the Hilton on County Line Road, 9 a.m.

Jackson- Fundraiser at Nick's, 12 p.m. ($250 per person)

Tupelo- Rally at the Furniture Market, 3:30 p.m.
Southaven- Rally at the Ladner's Center, 8 p.m.

Biloxi- The Gulf Coast Energy Summit, 10 a.m.

Contact the Gingrich campaign in Mississippi: Scott Brewster, [e-mail missing], 601-405-9622

Mitt Romney

Times and locations are to be announced.

Contact the Romney campaign in Mississippi: Austin Barbour, [e-mail missing], 601-368-8455

Rick Santorum

Tupelo- Rally at Hawkeye Sheet Metal, 4:30 p.m.

Jackson- Rally at the Ag Museum, 7 p.m.

Meridian- Rally at Weidmann's Restaurant, 12:30 p.m.

Gulfport- Rally at Lookout Steakhouse, 7:30 p.m.

Biloxi- The Gulf Coast Energy Summit, 10 a.m.

Contact the Santorum campaign in Mississippi: Chris Godbey, [e-mail missing], 803-542-6722

Note: Times/ locations are potentially subject to change. Information on Ron Paul is not available at this time. Please visit the Mississippi Republican Party website, http://www.msgop.org, for updates. Please contact the campaigns for full details on each event.

Previous Comments

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167258

Comment

We need someone who can effectively, clearly and definitively state why the policies of President O’bama have not and will not work; and why the ideas and goals of the Republican nominee will work for all Americans. Newt can best articulate and attack the left for their destructive policies and viewpoints. For example; Government and Federal Reserve “stimulus” won’t put our economy on a vigorous and sustainable growth trajectory. However, things like sound money, low tax rates, less spending, repealing ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank—will. In the past 30 years, Newt has done more to advance the cause of conservatism than anyone in this presidential race; possibly even more than anyone in the current Republican Party. Even if his record is not perfect, it proves he achieved the goals he set. Rather than defend his record, this party has allowed members to discredit his achievements just so they can nominate a candidate that has done absolutely nothing for Republicans or conservatism.

Author

Lynn Otting

Date

2012-03-09T11:11:31-06:00

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167259

Comment

Welcome to Mississippi, Lynn. I see you comment a lot around the country on behalf of Gingrich. And interesting typo in the president's name. You talk about effectively articulating how the policies of President Obama "have not and will not work"; why don't you take a crack at it for us? And you're going to have to work harder to convince how we need a president to "attack the left" in order to help the nation. I'm sure you're aware that the stimulus is actually working (not that Obama is fully responsible for it). And why in the world would we want to repeal health-care/insurance reform? You're going to have to work hard to convince most Americans (other than anti-Obama partisans) of that one, so you might as well get started now. This isn't the kind of site where empty rhetoric works. Folks are a bit too smart around here for that. So get to work with specifics and without empty attack-the-president rhetoric.

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2012-03-09T11:25:52-06:00

ID

167261

Comment

"We need someone who can effectively, clearly and definitively state why the policies of President O’bama have not and will not work" Well, Lynn... that can't happen because the premise is absurdly false. Obama's policies have and will continue to work. The modern GOP is the biggest threat to Democracy that our Democratic Republic has ever faced. If we don't get their Theocratic Plutocracy agenda out of our government, our economy and democracy will be gone the next time they gain control.

Author

BobbyKearan

Date

2012-03-09T13:29:05-06:00

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167262

Comment

I will hand Gingrich this much: he has made one of the most unintentionally humorous statements of the campaign. When asked what the greatest threat facing America is today, he said that it was an electromagnetic pulse detonation over the United States. To buy this argument, you have to believe that a) terrorists will somehow get a thermonuclear weapon, b) that they'll somehow get a ballistic missile, c) that instead of using that device to actually kill Americans by destroying a city, they'll attempt to detonate it in the upper atmosphere. Thus, they will destroy all of our smart phones, causing civilization to collapse. This answer cannot quite compete with the one offered by Santorum: that jihadists are secretly working with Chavez and Castro to infiltrate our southern border. Santorum even brags that he is the only one who has focused on this threat from the beginning. That's like being the first to identify fluoridation as a communist plot. Remember when Republicans were realists on foreign policy? My beloved Nixon must be spinning in his grave.

Author

Brian C Johnson

Date

2012-03-09T14:11:42-06:00

ID

167263

Comment

Brian- Gingrich didn't say an EMP was our greatest terrorist threat he said our greatest strategic threat. Oh and he is right, anybody use one against the U.S. or any country and our socitey is back in the early 1800's in a couple of minutes. Read a little on the effects of an EMP.

Author

BubbaT

Date

2012-03-09T15:07:16-06:00

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167303

Comment

I didn't say he had listed it as the greatest terrorist threat. But whether strategic or otherwise, an EMP attack is not a credible threat at this time. It's an exaggeration to say that an EMP attack over the continent would throw our society back to the early 1800's. We only know about EMP because of tests such as the Starfish Prime test over the Pacific in 1962. Hawaii suffered burned out streetlights and damaged electrical equipment, but the state did not plunge into Mad Max savagery. More to the point, the chances of an EMP strike are so remote as to be close to zero. I could list half a dozen strategic threats that are greater than an EMP attack, starting with the rise of China. It was just a silly answer. It is as if Gingrich thought they said, "Pitch us the start of a zombie movie."

Author

Brian C Johnson

Date

2012-03-12T07:56:16-06:00