PRESS RELEASE from Newt 2012
March 22, 2012
Newt 2012
Announces Strong
Louisiana Grassroots Team
Baton Rouge, LA - As the Gingrich campaign travels across the
Pelican state, Newt Gingrich is accompanied by a very experienced
political team on the ground. At the helm is Charlie Buckels, State
Director, who currently serves as the Vice Chairman of Republican Party
of Louisiana where he was elected in 2008.
Mr. Buckels also served as the Treasurer of the State Party from 2004
to 2008 and as a delegate to the 2004 and 2008 Republican National
Conventions and was a member of the Electoral College for the 2008
Presidential Election. When not “politicking” Charlie works with
Redflix Systems and has had a distinguished career in insurance and
mutual funds garnering numerous sales, management and training
achievements including the Chartered Life Underwriter professional
designation. He is a 1963 graduate of Istrouma High School and he
received a B.S. in Marketing from LA Tech University.
In addition to Mr. Buckels the state has organized into regions with
John Kay, a Republican political consultant who runs local and state
campaigns in northern Louisiana with his firm Capitol Strategies of
Louisiana based in Shreveport. Austin Stukins, a Marine who
served in Iraq and under the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon is
also a veteran of Jay Dardenne’s Lt. Governor’s race. Stukins is
tasked with reaching out to voters and planning events for Newt as the
State Grassroots Coordinator/Baton Rouge District Director.
Charlotte Ruiz of the East Jefferson Republic Women's Club and an
independent political professional is taking the lead for coordinating
the lower part of the state and Murray Nelson, former District Director
for Congressman Joseph Cao of New Orleans and a small business owner,
will act as the Statewide Caucus and Convention Director for LA Newt
2012.
Buckels praised his team saying, “We have organized the most aggressive
and experienced political team in Louisiana politics – from grassroots
and retail political organizers to great strategic thinkers. We
are bringing Newt’s message of an aggressive energy policy with $2.50 a
gallon gas, along with conservative family values to the state.
The more people get to know Newt, they realize that he is the one to
help lead this country back to prosperity.”
LA Newt 2012 also has call centers open in Baton Rouge, Kenner,
Lafayette and Shreveport. For more information on the call
centers, please contact Austin Stukins (Baton Rouge at
austin.stukins@gmail.com),
Ken
Yang (Kenner at
kyang@newt.org),
Patrick
Mayer (Lafayette at
pmayer@newt.org)
or Scott Reagan (Shreveport at
smreaga@gmail.com).
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R.C. Hammond
Press Secretary