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"FacebookPinterest\n\n&amp;quot;No joke, I\u2019ve got my new GQ and my Garden and Gun in my lap right now, just a little light reading on my way up&amp;quot; says Hogan Gidley, the dandified southern conservative who served as Rick Santorum\u2019s spokesman. On Tuesday morning, he\u2019s making the four hour drive from DC to Santorum strategist John Brabender\u2019s Pittsburgh office. Since the campaign ended, Hogan is still with Brabender Cox, but he\u2019s no longer Santorum\u2019s spokesman. Just a few days ago, Hogan announced he would be joining former Rep. Dave Weldon, who at the last minute inserted himself into the clusterfuck of a Florida Republican primary to beat Democratic Senator Bill Nelson.\n\nLife after the Santorum\u2019s improbable bid for the presidency is a bit of a mid bag. &amp;quot;It\u2019s a lot better because you don\u2019t have to wake up at 4 am and read emails, and you don\u2019t get 500 emails a day that require attention,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;And that\u2019s nice, but it\u2019s different because you have to shift your focus from paying attention to national media and a broader range of issues, to your candidate\u2019s position.&amp;quot;\n\n&amp;quot;Nowadays when you go on TV, I\u2019m usually articulating my opinion on these issues and not Rick\u2019s,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;That\u2019s a different role you have to slide into and understand. Instead of research on Rick, I\u2019m doing it for myself.&amp;quot;\n\nWhat did he and Santorum disagree on? Hogan will only say, &amp;quot;He\u2019s a junk food guy, I\u2019m a health guy. He\u2019s Steelers, I\u2019m Giants. He\u2019s north, I\u2019m south.&amp;quot;\n\nGidley\u2019s new client, Weldon, is a longshot. He\u2019s entering a weak field late, and the leading, gaffe-prone candidate Connie Mack\u2014who\u2019s been hit for everything from a youthful bar brawl to calling Paul Ryan\u2019s budget proposal a &amp;quot;joke&amp;quot; to bracketing Newt Gingirch on behalf of the Romney campaign in the Florida primary\u2014already has about a million dollars on hand.\n\nBut Hogan is used to working for the underdog. Plus, he says, of working in Florida, &amp;quot;It\u2019s finally a campaign where my socklessness will be appreciated and probably the norm.&amp;quot;\n\nRead More on Death Race 2012:\n\n[Veep Reality Check: Hubert Humphrey Weighs In\n\n](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/05/veep-reality-check-hubert-humphrey-weighs-in.html)\n\n[Hunger Reads: The Avengers as Political Allegory, and a Handy Primer on Cory Booker\n\n](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race#ixzz1vcWEfdNz)\n\n[A Newer, Gentler Obama Attack Ad\n\n](http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/05/a-newer-gentler-obama-attack-ad.html)\n\nMost F*cked Person in Politics Right Now\n\nFollow GQPolitics on Twitter for more updates from the campaign trail."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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