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35 Romney endorsers received contributions first
salon.com ^
| Jan 7, 2012
| Edward Mason
Posted on 03/30/2012 12:30:14 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Money may not be buying Mitt Romney much Republican love, but its going a long way toward helping him buy the next best thing: endorsements in the GOP primaries.
Romneys Free and Strong America PAC and its affiliates states have lavished close to $1.3 million in campaign donations to federal, state and local GOP politicians, almost all since 2010. His recipients include officials in the major upcoming primary states of New Hampshire and South Carolina, and in three southern Super Tuesday states where he was trounced four years ago.
In New Hampshire, a U.S. senator, a congressman, 10 state senators and three executive councilors shared $26,000 in donations from Romneys Free and Strong America PAC in 2010 and 2011 combined. All 15 have showered Romney with endorsements leading up to Tuesdays primary
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley came out for Romney last month a year after his Free and Strong America PACs funneled $36,000 to the Tea Party darlings 2010 election bid. And 19 state and Washington, D.C., lawmakers in three Super Tuesday states Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia are backing Romney after his PAC poured a total of $125,500 into their coffers for elections held in 2009 and 2010.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mittromney; romney; romney2012
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To: brownsfan; SoConPubbie
But you do realize, even Gingrich has acknowledged Romney will win. Then why hasn't Newt suspended his campaign and coalesced around Romney?
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
If Romney wins the nomination, I’m not sure the cows *will* come home.
To: Lauren BaRecall
Then why hasn't Newt suspended his campaign and coalesced around Romney?
The former House speaker told Milwaukee radio station WTMJ Friday he thinks Romney "is clearly the front-runner." Gingrich said Romney "will probably" get the 1,144 convention delegates he needs to win the nomination, but added that Romney still has to earn it.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Gingrich-romney-frontrunner-campaign/2012/03/30/id/434362
I don't know. Jockeying for a position in a potential Romney administration? Holding out for a sweet deal? Keeping the campaign alive for as long as possible to milk it for money before defaulting?
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03/30/2012 1:45:16 PM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Oh, the Mighty have fallen alright, and you are beating a dead horse. But go ahead, knock yourself out till the cows come home. It wont change a thing by tomorrow morning, or by next week for that matter.
Well, you are right about one thing PSYCHO-FREEP, Romney, no matter how many and how much people twists themselves and their principles into the shape of pretzel to support him, doesn't have a chance in hell of winning.
He will lose no matter your best efforts to brow-beat others into following you into the compromise of your principles.
To: brownsfan
It’s a fact that Newt *is* meeting with Romney. I guess we’ll have to wait and see, unless someone leaks something.
To: SoConPubbie
All the Romneybots can do is regurgitate establishment talking points and try to shout down anybody who still speaks the truth. It would be very inconvenient for them to have to think of actual reasons to vote for Romney, you see. It’s just so much easier to just pull that Republican lever and forget about everything!
“Remove the Usurper!” they say. What, so we’ll replace the Usurper with the Enemy Within? Good strategy. I bet we’ll be able to pull Romney to the right just like we’ve made Boehner and McConnell listen to us. Oh, wait...
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03/30/2012 2:42:51 PM PDT
by
Cato in PA
(1/26/12: Bloody Thursday)
To: Cato in PA
All the Romneybots can do is regurgitate establishment talking points and try to shout down anybody who still speaks the truth. It would be very inconvenient for them to have to think of actual reasons to vote for Romney, you see. Its just so much easier to just pull that Republican lever and forget about everything!
I so completely agree.
Some of our more artistic freepers need to make a graphic of a "conservative" Republican pulling the lever for Mitt with ear-plugs in their ears, a blinder over their eyes and a clothes-pin over their nose.
To: SoConPubbie
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posted on
03/31/2012 1:21:19 AM PDT
by
Dajjal
("I'm not concerned about the very poor." -- severely conservative Mitt 'Etch-A-Sketch' Rmoney)
To: SoConPubbie
he probably pays the people carrying his signs too
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04/01/2012 1:08:03 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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