GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney shakes hands with supporters.
ATLANTA, Ga. -- Georgia's presidential primary, on "Super Tuesday," March 6, is now less than a month away. And on Wednesday, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will be campaigning and fund-raising in Atlanta.
Former Speaker of the House and Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich is expected to announce before the end of the week when he will be returning to campaign in Georgia.
But the first shots are already flying in the GOP battle for Georgia.
The Romney fund-raiser in Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday will be his fourth fund-raiser in Georgia since June.
Gingrich supporters think of it as an invasion of their turf. Georgia is the only state where Gingrich has ever appeared on a ballot, until this campaign.
On Wednesday, Romney will first appear at a rally at a commercial contracting business called Bottega Stone, 129 Armour Drive, NE, Atlanta.
It's free and open to the public. He is expected to talk about jobs and the economy.
The Romney fundraiser begins at 5:30 at the W Hotel, on 14th St. NE, off of Peachtree St., in Midtown Atlanta.
He is asking people to buy tickets at either $1,000 each, or $2,500 each, to raise, possibly, hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Romney campaign. Those who buy $2,500 tickets will be able to meet personally with Romney at a V.I.P. Reception.
Gingrich volunteers are working the phones day and night at Gingrich's Georgia headquarters in Buckhead. Tuesday night they were calling voters in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. Gingrich himself will be campaigning in Georgia soon.
"It's absolutely our turf here in Georgia," said Maria Zack, Gingrich's Southeast Political Director. "We're going to be delivering Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi for him. We proved in South Carolina the South belongs to Newt. This state is conservative, and they don't go for a Massachusetts moderate. Here they know and they love Newt Gingrich."
"Well, sure, I mean there's no doubt that he [Gingrich] served here from Georgia," said Atlanta's Eric Tanenblatt of the Romney campaign. "But that was 14 years ago, And we have over two million new people that moved into Georgia since Speaker Gingrich served. And those that did live here before -- yes, they're familiar with Speaker Gingrich, but they're familiar with the good, the bad and the ugly. The biggest issue facing our country is the economy. And there's only one candidate that's spent his career in the private sector, and that's Governor Romney."
"Absolutely jobs and the economy," are the top issues of the campaign, Zack said. "They know Newt Gingrich is a conservative with a track record and can get the job done because he's done it before."
11Alive News Reporter Jeff Hullinger is scheduled to interview Romney just prior to the 4pm rally.
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