Newt Gingrich In Los Angeles: GOP Hopeful Targets Wealthy Whites & Conservative Latinos (VIDEO)

GOP candidates generally come to California for our money, not our votes. But it appears candidate Newt Gingrich came to Los Angeles on Monday for a little of both.

First, he followed the usual playbook of proving how conservative he is to more than 300 Tea Party activists in Pasadena by promising to drill oil in order to lower the price of gas. He said, "I want to campaign in California on jobs and $2 gasoline... versus food stamps and $4 gasoline," which, as the Pasadena Star News points out, is a reiteration of Gingrich's label on Obama as the "food stamp president."

He also took a shot at LAUSD, saying "As long as you have places like LA Unified where the teachers' union is more concerned about protecting bad teachers than they are about the students, you have a huge crisis," KTLA reports.

Gingrich took even stronger aim at the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for its recent ruling against a same-sex marriage ban in California, calling the court "consistently bigoted" and "anti-religious," the Los Angeles Times reports.

He also dismissed the National Review's recent editorial calling for him to drop out of the race and support rising candidate Rick Santorum. Newt called the article "silly," saying that the Review was wrong when it said that his campaign was over in June and that it is wrong now.

The candidate's second, very different, stop was a "Hispanic leadership event" at Cielito Lindo Restaurant in South El Monte. Gingrich is the only GOP candidate who supports a path to legal residency for some illegal immigrants, although only if they return to their home country or join the military. As KPCC points out, although Newt said in January that he'd like to win at least half of the Latino vote in 2012, polls currently show him only winning 22% of the Latino vote as compared to Obama's 70%. The GOP candidate discussed his immigration policy in detail with the OC Register, as seen in the video below.

Comments

[Rob Paterson1]

04:20 PM on 02/15/2012

in California,Texas, in all, and many Southern States dont like romney because he is mormon and looks like a psycho, and santorum well he doesnt stand a chance in november, so like i said before Gingrich will win California,Texas, and the southern states and clinch the republican nomination, and it will be Gingrich-Obama in november 2012! and it can go either way!

[Rob Paterson1]

02:43 PM on 02/15/2012

NEWT GINGRICH 2012! you got my vote keep pushing NEWT! youll will win California for sure!

[Summer77]

12:31 PM on 02/15/2012

El Hombre is trying to learn the language of the Ghetto as he calls it! LOL

[Eddie Martinez]

10:12 AM on 02/15/2012

“Old Soldiers Never Die, They Just Fade Away” - Get It Newt, time to fade away ...

[Dan Leo]

01:56 AM on 02/15/2012

http://gingrichyouth.blogspot.com/2012/02/undeterred-by-our-recent-humiliating.html

[arecibo48]

09:12 PM on 02/14/2012

What conservative Latinos?

[Yankeebrown]

08:55 AM on 02/15/2012

I'm one

[arecibo48]

10:09 AM on 02/15/2012

That's a lot of votes.

[Just walkin the dog here]

04:24 PM on 02/14/2012

More drilling likely means the following: the U.S. releases more drilling rights to oil companies, who will most likely shelve/store them since they are not required to drill, and when they do, will sell the petroleum or processed gas INTERNATIONALLY (if the bidders aren't international to begin with). Oil production is a world market, not local, and local gas prices are ruled by supply and demand. Supply is managed by the owners of the refineries (that often are "shut-down" for repairs during the high gasoline demand months). Face it, we are owned by the gas companies.

RECAP: Releasing more oil reserves will not reduce gas prices to $2.00 per gallon. Anyone who believes it will is a complete and utter fool.

[mthomas1a]

09:04 PM on 02/14/2012

Totally agreed. But to pander to the GOP base, facts have no place. Emotion is all that counts, pure seething emotion.