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DEL.ICIO.USA Cagle strategist moves to the Thompson camp
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As a matter of efficiency, it’s not odd for a national political operation to digest whole campaign structures at the statewide level. Fred Thompson seems to be doing this in Georgia.
We’ve gotten word that Joel McElhannon, the Republican political consultant who helped put Casey Cagle in the lieutenant governor’s office and Jim Whitehead into a run-off for the 10th District congressional race, is being gobbled up by the Thompson campaign as some sort of Southern coordinator.
McElhannon confirmed the move, but referred all other questions to the campaign. Thompson has a fund-raiser here on Friday, one of his first events after the former Tennessee senator’s presumed entry into the race on Thursday.
Other Georgians in Thompson’s camp include Tom Bell, CEO of Cousins Properties and a lifelong friend to Thompson; Steve Croy, a coastal developer who served as Cagle’s campaign treasurer; and lobbyist Raymon White, a native Tennessean who represents the National Rifle Association and the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce at the state Capitol.
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By deegee
July 2, 2007 11:58 AM | Link to this
Nothing like the smell of PAC money early in the campaign. Smells like…victory.
By Greg
July 5, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this
is fred getting in today or not todays july 5th!??
By Greg
July 5, 2007 4:25 PM | Link to this
is fred getting in today or not todays july 5th!??