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Rick Santorum Will Campaign Today in Council Bluffs, Red Oak and Atlantic, Iowa

Posted on | December 18, 2011 | 6 Comments

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will travel about 90 miles through Western Iowa today and hold three public events:

11:00am CT: Senator Santorum will have brunch with supporters at the HyVee Instore in Council Bluffs, IA.
Location: Treynor State Bank
HyVee Instore, 1745 Madison Avenue, Suite 1002, Council Bluffs, IA

2:30pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Red Oak, IA.
Location: Pizza Ranch
1511 North Broadway Street, Red Oak, IA

5:30pm CT: Senator Santorum will host a “Faith, Family and Freedom” Town Hall in Atlantic, IA.
Location: Farmers Kitchen Restaurant
319 Walnut Street, Atlantic, IA

Santorum’s “No Surrender” Money Bomb has raised nearly $200,000 since Dec. 14, and continues with the goal of reaching $250,000.

Rick Santorum has picked up another big endorsement:

An influential retired Iowa pastor is asking Michele Bachmann to fold her presidential campaign into Rick Santorum’s before the Jan. 3 caucuses — and offered Iowans a scathing critique of the rest of the GOP field.
The Rev. Albert Calaway, a retired Assemblies of God minister who lives in Indianola, [Saturday] endorsed Santorum — but said he’d like to see Bachmann as the vice presidential nominee.
“There’s absolutely, positively no divine power vested in me for this, but if I had it, I’d personally love to pronounce Rick and Michele as lawfully wedded running mates,” Calaway told The Des Moines Register in a written statement.
Calaway . . . is president of the Truth, Values and Leadership, an organization that serves about 200 Iowa churches and pastors . . .
“Santorum has never embarrassed us in debate or on the campaign trail. He has a plan to bring back U.S. manufacturing and cut five trillion dollars over his first five years. He is very pro-Israel and sober minded about the Islamist threat, and I’m convinced he has the maturity and experience to run the government,” Calaway said.

Meanwhile, Santorum’s Iowa campaign is “in grief” today:

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s Iowa campaign is mourning the sudden death of its hardest-working volunteer, Wendy Jensen of Ames.
Jensen, 55, who had been an active member of the Story County Republican Party, had made thousands of calls to Iowans, imploring them to support Santorum’s presidential candidacy in the Jan. 3 Iowa Caucuses.
“Our campaign is in grief,” said Jamie Johnson of Stratford, a top aide to the Santorum campaign in Iowa, on Saturday.
Jensen was found dead at her apartment in Ames on Thursday, apparently of natural causes, said Cody Brown, Santorum’s state campaign director. She had attended a Christmas party on Wednesday night at Santorum’s Iowa headquarters in Urbandale and was tickled when the candidate thanked her for her hard work, gave her a hug and autographed a coffee mug for her. . . .
Jensen was a remarkable volunteer who routinely made 400 to 500 calls, working a volunteer shift from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Johnson said.

Santorum supporters who want to travel to Iowa to volunteer during the final two weeks before the Jan. 3 caucuses are urged to contact Kristin Beaulieu ([email protected]). Santorum supporters who can’t make it to Iowa can still sign up as volunteers, to participate in the campaign’s call-from-home Iowa phone-bank operation.

RICK SANTORUM
‘NO SURRENDER’
MONEY BOMB

 
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Comments

6 Responses to “Rick Santorum Will Campaign Today in Council Bluffs, Red Oak and Atlantic, Iowa”

  1. Dcmick
    December 18th, 2011 @ 11:44 am

    And how many people will be there?

    Will he rouse the audience?

    Will he do what Gingrich has repeatedly done, rouse conservatives for the battle?

  2. Gsg1970
    December 18th, 2011 @ 11:54 am

    FYI… No offense but please note that Santorum’s goal to raise $250,000 is far short of Ron Paul’s $3.5 million raised on Friday.

    Luckily no one takes Dr. Paul seriously. Oh and it is time to launch another attack since he is doing well in the polls.

  3. rosalie
    December 18th, 2011 @ 1:07 pm

    You’re right; no one takes him seriously.  And if he would run against O, we’d lose. 

  4. richard mcenroe
    December 18th, 2011 @ 1:19 pm

    Especially if he won; it would mean the end of conservatism in America to have it tied to that antediluvian bigoted lunatic.

  5. Gsg1970
    December 18th, 2011 @ 6:56 pm

    What you all fail to consider is that all the spending and all the. It government regulations will continue unless we stop letting the establishment pick the candidate. Please note Republicans ran the Congress starting in 1994 and then had to share for a few years until 2006. Now tell me about all the new energy exploration and drilling that went on. Tell me about the size of government reducing. Tell me about spending cuts. Please if you can answer these questions go for it.

    If not please consider your blind allegiance to THIS Republican party. The one of Gingrich and Rove and the Ice Pr

  6. ThePaganTemple
    December 18th, 2011 @ 7:36 pm

    I bet if there was a national booger eating contest he would win hands down.