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Rep. Roskam superfan returns to Hill - for different rep.

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 17, 2017

A Rep. Peter Roskam superfan is back on the Hill after a one-year break — but for the first time, he's not with the Illinois Republican.

Dean Thompson's 18th birthday party was a fundraiser for Roskam. He also appears in an oil painting that Roskam's wife Elizabeth spent nine months creating during her husband's first term in office. But instead of returning to his longtime boss, Thompson has taken a job as deputy chief of staff and legislative director to Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.).

The Illinois native, who had worked for Roskam since his first month in office, when Thompson was still a student at Georgetown University, left Roskam's office last spring to work as director of the Glen Echo Group public relations firm.