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TexasTowelie

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Mon Apr 22, 2019, 01:06 PM Apr 2019

Here's who's running Beto O'Rourke's South Carolina campaign

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is forming his South Carolina campaign team, choosing veterans with ties to local elected officials whose endorsements would be considered coups in the Palmetto State.

The former U.S. congressman from Texas has selected Lauren Harper and Tyler Jones to serve as state director and senior adviser, respectively, according to an official announcement shared first with McClatchy.

Harper is a former policy and communications adviser to Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin, the city’s first black chief executive and current president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

The CEO of her own public affairs firm and a former aide to S.C. Sen. Mia McLeod, D-Richland, Harper is also African American, an advantage for the O’Rourke campaign in a state where black women make up a powerful primary voting bloc.

Read more: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article229523014.html

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Here's who's running Beto O'Rourke's South Carolina campaign (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2019 OP
Really great hires! BetoorBust Apr 2019 #1

BetoorBust

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1. Really great hires!
Mon Apr 22, 2019, 01:19 PM
Apr 2019

He has a massive groundswell of support in the South and noticeably in the Carolinas, love these hires.

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