More details on the 21st Century Contract with America

From Jennifer Jacobs of the Des Moines-Register:

Newt Gingrich promised to lay out a “very visionary” new Contract with America during a speech next week in Iowa.

It “will be 10 times deeper and more comprehensive than 1994,” he told an audience of about 40 people Monday night in Council Bluffs. “Because the truth is, while we changed the system some … we didn’t fundamentally change the underlying system.”

The new “21st Century Contract with America” will, he said.

Gingrich said his ideas, which he will unveil Sept. 29 in Des Moines, are “very big, and they’re exactly what Abraham Lincoln would have campaigned on.”

Monday night’s campaign stop, at Bent Tree Golf Club, centered on a screening of “A City Upon a Hill,” a documentary Gingrich and his wife, Callista, helped create about the concept of American exceptionalism.

Afterward, Gingrich spoke and answered questions for an hour, flexing his intellectual muscles and calling his campaign “the antithesis” of the other campaigns.

“One of the major themes of next year if I’m the nominee is going to be that (President Barack) Obama is the best food stamps president in American history and I’ll be the best paycheck president in American history,” he said.

“And I will be happy to debate Obama on any university campus in the country, including Harvard and Berkeley. I’m not afraid to debate this president anywhere, any time, on any topic.”

Gingrich had the audience laughing multiple times with quips and stories about his personal life, including his childhood ambition to be either a paleontologist or a zoo director.

After the 2½-hour event, Sam McManus, 58, of Council Bluffs said Gingrich’s pitch “changed my whole perception of him” from a has-been to a serious contender.

McManus’s wife, Anna, a railroad official, went even further. She said she was previously leaning toward Mitt Romney or Rick Perry, but “it’s going to take a lot to get me to go anywhere else now. Mitt is good, but he’s not going to have ideas like this.”

The original Contract with America presaged today’s tea party movement with its calls for smaller government, lower taxes and greater public accountability.

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Gingrich’s two-day Iowa campaign swing continues today with a town hall meeting at Morningside College in Sioux City at 2 p.m.

Newt's schedule for the next few days

Monday, September 19th:

Council Bluffs, IA – 6:00 p.m. CT – 912 Western Iowa hosts Newt and Callista for a screening of their documentary A City Upon A Hill.

Tuesday, September 20th:

Sioux City, IA – 2:00 p.m. CT – Lead at a Town Hall meeting at Morningside College with students, faculty and local citizens.

Thursday, September 22nd:

Orlando, FL – 4:30 p.m. ET – Participate in the Florida Faith & Freedom Coalition Presidency V Kick-Off.

Orlando, FL – 9:00 p.m. ET – Participate in the Fox News-Google Republican Presidential Primary debate.

Friday, September 23rd:

Orlando, FL – 7:30 a.m. ET – Speak at CPAC-Florida Chairman’s Breakfast.

Orlando, FL – 9:45 a.m. ET – Address attendees of CPAC-Florida.

Orlando, FL – 2:15 p.m. ET – Newt and Callista introduce their documentary Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny at CPAC-Florida on the third level in room S330C.

Saturday, September 24th:

Orlando, FL – 1:30 pm ET – Address attendees of Presidency V. NOTE: Newt 2012 is not actively campaigning to win the straw poll.

NOTE: Newt will campaign in Iowa on September 29th and 30th prior to traveling to Kansas City, MO to participate in the National Federation of Republican Women's 36th Biennial Convention on October 1st.

Newt and Callista to be in Chicago Sept. 4 to screen Nine Days that Changed the World

Here is the Facebook event page.

From that link: "Speaker and Mrs. Gingrich will screen 'Nine Days that Changed the World'. A book and DVD signing will be held prior to the screening."

Looking ahead, the two will also be screening A City Upon a Hill in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Young Republicans September 13.

A week later, on September 20th, they will be in Sioux City, Iowa, to screen Mine Days that Changed the World with KFHC Catholic Radio.

On October 4th, with the Columbia (S.C.) Tea Party, A City Upon a Hill will be shown.

Newt and Callista will be screening A City Upon a Hill in California Wednesday

Here is the link to the Gingrich Productions event page.

The movie explores American Exceptionalism.

Newt screening documentary with Savannah Tea Party

I have added a screening of A City Upon a Hill to the calendar page of this site.

It will be in Savannah, Georgia, next Tuesday, June 21st.