(Greenville-AP) Dec. 10, 2003 -- Governor Mark Sanford has tapped six campaign finance veterans to lead fund-raising for his 2006 re-election bid.

Sanford says that group will spend about a year putting the campaign's finance infrastructure in place in the state's 46 counties. He says he has needed to focus on his legislative agenda without the distraction of raising campaign money.

The committee members are Doctor Eddie Floyd of Florence, Spartanburg broker Barry Wynn, Columbia car dealer J.T. Gandolpho, lawyer-banker John Rainey of Anderson, Bill Hewitt of Charleston and Columbia businessman Bill Stern.

Sanford says he has not set a fund-raising goal.

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