Posted on 01/31/2008 8:58:21 PM PST by logician2u
San Diego, CA --
Mitt Romney gave 18 million dollars of his own money to his campaign in the last three months of 2007. In total, he has poured 35 million dollars of his personal fortune into his campaign.
The Romney camp also reported raising 9 million dollars in donations in the fourth quarter equaling 53.5 million dollars for the entire year. The campaign spent 33.8 million during the last 3 months of the year equaling 87.6 million dollars spent in 2007. The camp reports having 2.4 million dollars cash on hand at the end of the year. The campaign did not release any numbers for January meaning that Romney may have donated even more than 35 million dollars to his campaign.
The camp launched an aggressive ad blitz today signaling that former Massachusetts governor may have used more of his vast wealth, which is estimated at upwards of 250 million dollars.
Campaigns were required to file their end of the year finance reports today with the Federal Election Commission.
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“If you think your liberal accusations of bigotry are going to shut me up, think again.”
I wouldn’t for a moment think that my comments are going to shut your big yap up. However, that will not stop me from accusing you of Mormon bigotry every time you choose to open that big yap and spout your venom again. So, carry on. I will.
You’re distaste for Mormons comes between you and any rational decisions. It’s obvious, blatant in fact.
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About mormons...
You lot would have us believe that Romney and y’all are all “sqeeky clean” but I’ve just been listening to RINO Romney himself talking about the mormons, and you are a buch of self righteous hypocrites...
The Baptists and the other Christian Churches dont allow the permissive belliefs and behavior that you excuse...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0rcAByKUFM&NR=1
Whoops
I mean mormons are a BUNCH of self righteous hypocrites
“The Baptists and the other Christian Churches dont allow the permissive belliefs and behavior that you excuse...”
It’s amazing how you continue to walk right into it and make my point. Oh, by the way, Ol Sparky said he would be proud to marry you. Marriage made in anti-Mormon heaven.
“Please enjoy our forum, but also please remember to use common courtesy when posting and refrain from posting personal attacks, profanity, vulgarity, threats, racial or religious bigotry, or any other materials offensive or otherwise inappropriate for a conservative family audience.”
Well, that leaves you out.
“If you think your liberal accusations of bigotry are going to shut me up, think again.”
I wouldn’t for a moment think that my comments are going to shut your big yap up. However, that will not stop me from accusing you of Mormon bigotry every time you choose to open that big yap and spout your venom again. So, carry on. I will.
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flaggy
The gig is up...
The mormon hypocracy is exposed
Your gutless wonder boy did himself and you in...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0rcAByKUFM&NR=1
“or religious bigotry”
P.S., especially this part.
Once you deduct what he’s given his own campaign from his own pockets, Romney has raised less than McCain. And while he’s spent nearly twice as much, he has much less to show for it.
He’s “raised” 62m, but 35m of that was his own money, leaving him with 27m raised from the public. The combined total of 62 million dollars has garnered him 59 delegates.
McCain has raised 32 million, 5 million more than Romney has raised (not counting Romney’s own cash), and yet McCain has 93 delegates.
You are correct in saying that he’s raised more than “most”, but what does that mean? Why does it matter than he’s raised more than Ron Paul? It doesn’t, because Ron Paul can’t get elected and is at best a fringe candidate.
Romney has raised more than Mike Huckabee, (32 million versus 2.3 for Huckabee): http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp
but Huckabee still has 40 delegates to show for the little bit he’s spent versus the 62 million Romney had to spend to get 59: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/republican_delegate_count.html
I think the campaigns are required to update their numbers at the end of January, so we should get a clearer picture in a few days, but as of now, it seems that Romney has spent an inordinate amount of money for a somewhat limited payout.
The 35 million was for 2007. I’m sure he has spent a lot more than that by now. He is probably going to spend 50 or 60 million of his own money before he drops out. LOL
That's why Human Events magazine just two short years ago named him the #8 RINO in the country for the year 2005?
His record is the MOST liberal of any candidate running. That you don't know that is pathetic.
You should probably read my tagline, sonny.
lol. I am so glad that you are not for McCain. I should have read it before my last post. sonny? Aren’t we the same age?
Could you clarify? Are you saying that he has raised 62 and loaned an additional 35?
For a total of 97 (ish - with rounded numbers)?
Are you talking McCain? I already am aware that he is RINO. I am sure his ranking this year would be number 1.
Romney spent millions to successfully get name recognition and he succeeded. At the same time he has to fend off anti-Mormon propoganda from high and low, dishonest, dishonest, anti-conservative class warfare cheapshots from McCain and Huckabee, mega free airtime/fawning of McCain and Huckabee, dishonest jab by Hunter apparently worth selling out his pro-border immigration stature for vindictiveness, claims that Romney is finished or needs this or that win to continue while Huckabee is never challenged on his remaining in.
Romney will do his best to save us from McCain but if he fails it will not have been for a lack of trying against outrageous odds. And the consequences of a McCain nomination and/or Presidency will put Romney on the top of the list in 2012. And....he'll be a seasoned pro, more ready than ever. And Huckabee will be done - used by McCain and the media to their own/common ends. And for McCain this is "The Last Hurrah"
It is his wife's money, she is probably too smart to give it to him.
No, I’m referring to Romney. His record is the most liberal of any candidate running.
But, you're trying to pass Romney off as an economic conservative despite this sorry record?
"His first budget, presented under a cloud of a $2 billion deficit, balanced the budget with some spending cuts, but a $500 million increase in various fees was the largest component of the budget fix." Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004. Romney was rated a "C" overall by Cato.
# In 2006, Romney introduced a universal health care bill (which passed the Legislature in a slightly amended version) which has been criticized by conservatives as being socialistic.
Republican Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is trying to accomplish in his final year in office what Democrats can only dream of these days: boosting government spending on and regulation of health care and requiring individuals to purchase government-designed policies. Romney's plan, which is backed by such liberals as Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, Mass.), is being pitched as a compact between citizens and the state. - National Review Online, 1/26/2006
Andrew Sum and Joseph McLaughlin of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Boston's Northeastern University placed Romney's rule beneath their statistical microscope. Let's hope what they discovered is not contagious.
"Our analysis reveals a weak comparative economic performance of the state over the Romney years, one of the worst in the country," the researchers wrote in the Boston Globe. Specifically, they found:
* As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal.
As Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told the Boston Globe after the powwow: "Here you have a freshman governor refusing to endorse a tax cut presented by a Republican President at the height of his wartime popularity." As for the anti-tax pledge, a Romney spokesman dismissed it as "government by gimmickry."
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