MORE: Perry S.C. Campaign to Work Without Pay: National Journal

“We’ll be able to live off the land for a while,” Katon Dawson, the South Carolina state director for Republican Rick Perry’s presidential campaign, tells the National Journal.

• “Pay is only one reason people do this,” Dawson says
• NOTE: S.C. conducts one of the election season’s earliest primaries
• NOTE: Ex-Texas Gov. Perry has struggled in his second presidential bid; his campaign raised only $1.1m in year’s second quarter, he missed cut for last week’s prime-time GOP debate on Fox News among the top 10 finishers in average of recent natl’ polls