Thursday, April 14, 2011

Mitt Romney: And The Money Flows In

Mitt Romney, wasting no time reeling in the cash for his presidential campaign, held a meeting with high-dollar donors in New York City on Tuesday, a day after announcing his exploratory committee for president.......

......With Romney’s exploratory committee activated, donors like the ones who attended the Harvard Club gathering—who have already pledged between $25,000 and $100,000—can start to write checks to the committee, which is expected to become a full-fledged campaign in the coming months. In attendance Tuesday were New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, former Bush Treasury official Emil Henry, hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, financier Patrick Durkin, and former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead, all of whom attended a similar breakfast fund-raiser for Romney last month. New faces included Tom Foley, who unsuccessfully ran for governor of Connecticut last November, and hedge fund manager John Paulson, who along with Johnson spoke at the meeting........


......The next stop in the fund-raising blitz is Florida, where, according to a member of his financial team in the state, Romney will hold a sit-down dinner at The Villages—a huge retirement community with a substantial conservative population—for his Florida leadership committee on Thursday. The fund-raising tour is expected to include 30 stops.......
The full story is here.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Mitt certainly has the big money donors covered.

Ann said...

I'm glad Mitt got a head start on all this and is way ahead of the others when it comes to backers.

Anonymous said...

I gotta show Mitt the money!
MikeZ

BOSMAN said...

Show Me Da Money!