From Politico.com: Fred Thompson’s campaign will announce this morning their “National Campaign Leadership Team.”
Among the four chairs — former Sen. George Allen (VA).
The one-time presidential hopeful has had warm things to say about Thompson since the Tennessean first considered a bid this summer, and recently had his former colleague on while guest-hosting a radio show in Richmond.
It’s fitting that Allen would back Thompson. They occupy much of the same space politically — folksy Southern mainstream conservative — and Fred got in the race in no small part because Allen’s absence created a vacuum for a candidate with such qualities.
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