Sunday, February 26, 2012

Rick Santorum brings national spotlight to Hixson with campaign speech at Abba’s House

by Chris Carroll

If you saw Rick Santorum on CNN or Fox News on Saturday, the backdrop likely was Abba’s House in Hixson, where the latest Republican presidential front-runner temporarily thrust Chattanooga into the national political spotlight.

Wearing a blue blazer, open-collared shirt and jeans at the Southern Baptist megachurch, Santorum headlined the Chattanooga Tea Party’s “Liberty Forum,” calling President Barack Obama a “snob” for saying every American child should go to college and promoting his own version of family values.

“True happiness comes from doing God’s will,” the Roman Catholic former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania said. “It comes not from doing what you want to do, but doing what you ought to do.”

A 34-second round of applause filled the 3,100-seat facility, where organizers hung drapes over some empty upper tiers.

Read more: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/feb/26/rick-santorum-brings-national-spotlight-hixson-cam/

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