With the focus shifting to the general election, Mitt Romney is adding former RNC chair Ed Gillespie to his campaign team. Jonathan Martin reports:
Gillespie is not displacing anyone in Romney’s orbit but augmenting a campaign that was purposefully kept lean during the primary. The strategist is close to campaign manager Matt Rhoades and political director Rich Beeson from their days at the RNC and worked with Romney message gurus Stuart Stevens and Russ Schriefer on President George W. Bush’s campaigns.
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While very much a credentialed member of the Republican establishment, Gillespie also has ties to the conservative movement. He worked as a top aide to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and came up in politics strategizing with movement figures like Paul Weyrich.
