No Labels Names Committee To Select Candidate

The Washington Post reports:

The centrist group No Labels announced a committee of 12 people Thursday who will decide in the coming weeks who should appear on the group’s potential third-party presidential ticket.

Led by co-chairs of the group — including former senator Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), retired Navy Adm. Dennis Blair and civil rights activist Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. — the committee will then take its recommendation to a separate group of No Labels supporters that is prepared to formally nominate the ticket on 48 hours’ notice.

“The committee will consider input from the No Labels community and serve as representatives in meeting with potential candidates,” Mike Rawlings, the group’s national convention chair, a former Dallas mayor and top executive at Pizza Hut, said in a video posted online.

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