Scottie Mayfield said Monday he will likely wait to make his formal announcement of a race for Third District Congressman until opening a campaign office in Chattanooga.
Mr. Mayfield, long the folksy spokesman for the family's Mayfield Dairy, said Chattanoogan Bo Patten will be his campaign manager.
Mr. Mayfield filed papers to run late last week as a surprise entrant.
It will be the first political race for the 61-year-old Mayfield.
He said he was prompted to run after the family farm at Athens in McMinn County was switched into the Third District during the recent re-districting.