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FarLeftFist

(6,161 posts)
Wed Feb 1, 2012, 06:08 PM Feb 2012

Mitt Romney's Super-Pac $$$$ Donors Revealed.

Of the $31 million the group raised last year, $5 million came from just five New York business donors who contributed $1 million each. Two more million dollar donations were made by two companies in Mormon-heavy Utah - Eli Publishing and F8 LLC. The two firms share an address, donated on the same day and appear to exist only on paper, with no employees or substantial business.

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Also on the list of corporate millionaires contributing to Restore Our Future, was William Koch, the brother of David and Charles Koch, whose millions have helped fund the Tea Party movement as well as a constellation of conservative think thanks and advocacy groups. Mr Koch contributed $250,000, while Oxbow Carbon, the energy firm he runs, put in a further $750,000.

Mr Romney also received $1 million in two donations from Bob Perry, a Texan property mogul who bankrolled the 'Swift Boat' attacks against John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee. The repeated assaults and distortions on Mr Kerry's record in the Vietnam War were credited with helping George W. Bush win re-election.

As well as contributions from donors at Wall Street firms like Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, Mr Romney racked up nearly $1.4 million from five former colleagues at Bain Capital, the private equity company he ran in the 1990s. The firm's managing director, Steven Barnes donated $125,000, a sum matched by his wife, Deborah.

Link for more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9055396/US-election-2012-Mitt-Romney-Super-pac-donors-revealed.html

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