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Fred Thompson, actor and former U.S. Senator from Tennessee, stops in town tonight for a fund-raiser for his supposed presidential campaign. Perhaps the Sheffield-born candidate will even drive his trademark red pickup truck, denoting his folksy aw-shucks ways. And what kind of folksy aw-shucks fund-raiser will take place at the Mountain Brook home of construction company president Jim Cooper? The kind that costs $1,000 per couple. He’s the fourth GOP candidate to visit the state, after Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney. Yeah, but none of them did a “Die Hard” movie or a “Law and Order” franchise …
• NBC 13: Thompson Makes First Ala. Campaign Stop Monday

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