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Thompson Slashes Staff Salaries

Posted Jan 9, 08 6:19 CST in Politics 

(Newser) – After drawing only 1% of the vote in yesterday's New Hampshire primary, Fred Thompson's  struggling campaign is cutting salaries and focusing available funds on a last-ditch push in South Carolina, the Washington Post reports. Resources will go to a South Carolina bus tour and ad campaign; the senator-turned-actor will likely be skipping Michigan.

"The campaign's headquarters staff is going above and beyond the call of duty" by working on reduced salaries, said Thompson's campaign manager. By the end of September, Thompson had raised just under $13 million.
Source: Washington Post

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