35 Romney endorsers received contributions first

It is no secret that Romney comes from a wealthy background and has personal connections to K Street, Wall Street and the military industrial complex as well as those connections through his advisors and "donors/special interests". Hell, we all know his top donor(s) is his own former company Bain & Co. and Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, etc...


He's been giving generous donations to local and high ranking officials of NH and South Carolina in which he just happened to receive their endorsement for the GOP nomination.



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Money may not be buying Mitt Romney much Republican love, but it’s going a long way toward helping him buy the next best thing: endorsements in the GOP primaries.

Romney’s 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 Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC in 2010 and 2011 combined. All 15 have showered Romney with endorsements leading up to Tuesday’s 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 darling’s 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.