Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Another top aide resigned from Republican Fred Thompson's campaign as the former Tennessee senator made his bid for the White House official.
The latest staff member to depart is Mark Corallo, a senior strategist and spokesman who was one of the first people to join Thompson's campaign. Corallo resigned yesterday, hours before Thompson formally declared his candidacy in a video posted on his Web site just after midnight, a campaign official said.
Corallo's resignation follows the departure of at least three other members of Thompson's communications staff, acting campaign manager Tom Collamore and several other aides in recent months. Thompson last month brought in Bill Lacy, a White House political director under President Ronald Reagan, to run the campaign, causing friction among some of the earlier hires.
``There appears to be something dysfunctional inside the Thompson campaign,'' said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. ``He has been hemorrhaging staff pretty consistently without any explanation.''
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