Your story is BS. The AP reporter was dead wrong. But then you knew that already before you (re)posted it.
“Former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney, who has cast himself as a Washington outsider and blasted his opponents’ ties to lobbyists, has more than a dozen federally registered lobbyists raising money for him and several others advising his campaign, records show.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1067546&srvc=rss
Not that facts matter to Romney cheerleaders.