Sylvia Smith, writing for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, has an article entitled “Ex-congresswoman Thompson weighing run ‘very seriously.'” That would put her up against Sen. Richard Young and Indianapolis architect Jim Schellinger in the Democratic primary.
Thompson, 54, was elected to Congress in 1989 and was defeated by Republican Mark Souder in 1994. She was appointed to a senior Agriculture Department post by President Clinton and ran an unsuccessful congressional race in 2002. Since then she has headed an agricultural think tank in Washington, splitting her time between there and her husband’s farm in Marshall County.
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