Gingrich takes few questions, avoids press at N.H. town hall
Source: The Washington Post
DERRY, N.H. — Republican Newt Gingrich seems to have developed a new strategy in his second week of campaigning for the White House: take as few questions as possible and ignore the press.
At an event Wednesday billed as a town hall, Gingrich stood behind a lectern and gave a 15-minute speech, then took questions for about two minutes, raising the question of whether an event is really a town hall if the speech outlasts the question-and-answer session.
In the lobby of Derry Medical Center here, the former speaker of the House vowed to repeal President Obama’s health-care law and replace it with a state-based, free-market approach.
“I will fight for the repeal of Obamacare until it is repealed in its entirety,” Gingrich said. “Obamacare is not only unconstitutional, it is an assault to the vision of the founders, who carefully created a government of enumerated and limited powers, not a government of unlimited and open-ended powers.”
