Newt Gingrich to take his campaign to Hawaii

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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is traveling this week, and again next week, to the critical primary state of New Hampshire. But in between stops in the Granite State, he's taking his campaign somewhere a little less critical -- Hawaii.

The latest release of Gingrich's publicly scheduled campaign events shows that the former House speaker will be a guest on a talk radio show broadcasting out of New London, New Hampshire today. Later in the day, Gingrich and his wife Callista Gingrich will travel west to a screening of their documentary "A City Upon a Hill" at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, in Yorba Linda, Calif.

After attending more campaign events in California, Gingrich next travels to Wailuku, Hawaii, where he and the Maui Republican Party will meet with local activists at a church on Saturday. His next public event is at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, when he'll discuss the American founding with students at a prep school in Makawao, also on the island of Maui.

Gingrich travels back to the mainland on Tuesday, makes a stop in Washington on Wednesday and heads back to New Hampshire on Thursday.

The detour to Hawaii comes amid questions of how committed Gingrich is to his presidential campaign. Key members of his staff, including his campaign manager, resigned in June after Gingrich took a break from campaigning to go on a Greek cruise with his wife.

Gingrich's spokesman declined to comment to Hotsheet on the observation from Politico that the Hawaii campaign stop coincides with the Gingriches' eleventh wedding anniversary, which is tomorrow.

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Newt Gingrich on the campaign trail

[karek40]

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[usswahoo]

eye of newt should be campaigning in siberia instead........

[hhandyman]

Neut Gingrich may as well enjoy the lavish trip on his Political paid vacation.. hes got less chance than Paylin does joining the Democratic primary for him to be elected as Commander in chief of the nation.

[AOCGUY]

The mental picture of Newt in a bathing suit on Waikaki Beach might be even more scary than him in the White House. Hopefully neither will happen.

[RobAla]

Let's see if President Obama tries to follow him in that big bus.

[newsworthy8]

Gingrich..keep going past Hawaii, way, way past.

[ralphem]

I am outraged -- absolutely frothing starkers about Mr. Gingrich sashaying his way around Hawaii on a vacation ordered by his wife, when he should be home working on a GOP plan to rescue the economy and put Americans back to work. How dare he even think about leisure during this national emergency while we are fighting two wars, paying billions to profiteering banks, underwriting giant SUVs to clog our highways, and still trying to figure out a national budget for next year! This is a total outrage and is grounds for impeachment -- except Mr. Gingrich doesn't seem to hold any office, so I guess the only thing left is to unvote him from holding future office. Almost as outrageous as a vacation in Greece.

[SandmanUSMC]

Wait a minute, I thought Newt was campaigning in the Greek Isles! Now he's in Hawaii. If this is what it takes to run for president I want to be on his campaign team ;)

[AOCGUY]

Well the Greeks surely need the money

[dirtblues]

I dont believe he's going far enough...like, maybe New Guinea...

[antongrimes]

Newt is running the campaign I would: don't give a ****