From the news this morning:
Even after the race had seemed to take shape without him, his son, Greg Kelly, set up meetings for him with national consultants Pat Caddell and Joe Trippi. Separately, Greg Kelly and the police commissioner’s wife met with Ed Rollins about the framework of a campaign.
Greg Kelly asked Trippi and Caddell, both Fox News contributors, to talk to his father. Greg Kelly received a campaign strategy memo from Rollins — who was not told about the Caddell or Trippi meetings — and who had already begun reaching out to Republican operatives that included pollster Ed Goeas and media consultant Larry McCarthy. After the Bloomberg meeting to say he was running. Greg Kelly reached out to people whom he’d brought into the conversation—“we’re going,” he was saying, asking people whether they would be ready to formally commit, those sources said.
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