U.S. Rep. Rick Allen, who won Georgia's 12th Congressional District seat for the Republican Party less than two years ago, kicked off his re-election campaign this week with a bus tour of the district's 19 counties. He spent a big part of Thursday in Statesboro. After attending a Downtown Rotary Club meeting that began at 7 a.m. at RJ's Grill, Allen went to the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center at Georgia Southern University, where he hosted a Youth Leadership Conference for high school students.