Posted on 01/10/2012 3:32:07 AM PST by NoPrisoners
Gov. Nikki Haley announced her endorsement of Mitt Romney in mid-December.
The Republican presidential candidate, regarded to be somewhat moderate, earned her Tea Party support because “he knows how the private economy works, how to fix it, and most importantly how to solve problems,” Haley said in her announcement.
The fact that Romney knows how to donate to campaigns might have more to do with it, though.
His “Free and Strong America” political action committee donated $36,000 to Haley’s campaign in 2010.
And she’s not alone, either. Romney has, to date, received 35 endorsements from politicians his PAC donated to first, implying those open supporters may just be returning a favor, or were even paid for that favor early on.
I was disappointed by Haley’s endorsement, but this might be a bit of a stretch. The headline makes it sound like he just wrote her a check and Presto! her mind was made up. The reality is that the check was written in 2010; he didn’t buy the support of an office-holder, he helped get someone into office.
Then you’ll be quite content with 4 more years of Obama & the end of free elections & worse, right? /sarc off
Romney’s money, and the money of his very wealthy close allies, has permeated the Republican Party and its satellite “conservative” organizations.
And it constantly amazes me how little they are willing to sell their souls to him for.
Governors go for 36K, while voters go for a few bucks in their SS payment.
Pray for America
I was just about to write this, and saw that you already had done so.
The headline is misleading becasue it makes it sound like the check was in the mail at the time Haley made her endorsement a few weeks ago. The contribution was over a year earlier.It was NOT a quid pro quo. Just politics as usual, like when Palin campaigned for McStain last year.
Screw the GOP! This is one of the reasons I am a registered Independent.
Well I guess that explains things nicely does it not? I’m wondering if it’s the same for Christie and others? Did Romney buy a thousand of Ann Coulter’s books too?
She kissed the Tea Party on the cheek right after she collected a bag of silver.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00449280
Interesting post you made about the “Free and Strong” PAC donations on the top 20 list as I looked it up not know who they are and it states very clearly...
Free & Strong America PAC
Affiliate: Mitt Romney (R)
Is this breaking news 2 years later?
You haven’t burst any bubble here TomGuy. It’s a matter of how the inluence is peddled, and why, NOT that it was. We have more than a two dimensional going here.
Look not only forward, and backward, but to both sides as well up, and down, or you won’t see what’s really happening.
How do you find this exact information here?
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indexp_indiv.php?id=N00000286&cycle=2012
Am I reading this correctly did moveon.org give to Romney?
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/indexpend.php?cmte=C00341396&cycle=2012
Who says you can’t buy love? LOL!
Yep everyone has a price.
I think that’s what they’ve spent running ads or somesuch AGAINST him.
Total Against Republicans: $23,244
What kind of laws and rules are in America now? In a different era that’d be called bribery and she’d be hailed out of the governor’s mansion in shackles and jailed.
You forgot the PAC money promise for future negative ads.......
Call the $36,000 a deposit.
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