romney PAC buying endorsements

[hypocritexposer]

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.

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/07/35_romney_endorsers_received_contributions_first/singleton/

 

[Anonymous]

Current list:

LAST UPDATED ON Jan. 12 at 8:27 a.m.


RECENT UPDATES — Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.), Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.), Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)


NOTE — Endorsements in 2008 only noted if the member was serving in Congress at that time



Mitt Romney (63)

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.)
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.)
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) (endorsed Sen. John McCain in 2008)
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) (endorsed Romney in 2008 cycle)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.)
Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.)
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) (endorsed McCain in 2008)
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) (the 2008 GOP nominee)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho)
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) (endorsed McCain in 2008)
Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-La.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.)
Rep. Charles Bass (R-N.H.)
Rep. Judy Biggert (R-Ill.) (endorsed former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2008)
Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.)
Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) (endorsed Giuliani in 2008)

Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.)
Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah)
Rep. Howard Coble (R-N.C.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)

Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-Fla.)
 (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) (endorsed McCain in 2008)
Rep. Robert Dold (R-Ill.)
Rep. John Duncan (R-Tenn.) (endorsed ex-Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) in 2008)
Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) (endorsed McCain in 2008)
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa.) (endorsed Giuliani in 2008)
Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.)
Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.)
Rep. Nan Hayworth (R-N.Y.)
Rep. Joe Heck (R-Nev.)
Rep. Wally Herger (R-Calif.)
 (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.)
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) (endorsed McCain in 2008)
Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.)
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) (endorsed Giuliani in 2008)
Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)
Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) (endorsed Thompson in 2008; dropped White House bid in September)
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.)
Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.)
 (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)
Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) (endorsed Thompson and later McCain in 2008)
Rep. Jim Renacci (R-Ohio)
Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.)
Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.)
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.)
Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.)

Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) (endorsed McCain in 2008)
Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Ill.)
Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.)
Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Rick Perry (13)

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) (endorsed Thompson in 2008)
Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.)
Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.)
Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas)
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas)
Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas)
Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Texas)
Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas)
Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.)
Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.)
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.)



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Newt Gingrich (8)

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas)
Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas)
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.)
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) (endorsed Romney in 2008)
Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.)
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) (endorsed Thompson, and later, Romney, in 2008)



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ron Paul (3)

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.)
Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.)



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Rick Santorum (2)

Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.)
Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.)


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Jon Huntsman (1)

Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.)



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Herman Cain (1)*

Rep. Dan Benishek (R-Mich.)



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Michele Bachmann (1)*

Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) (Endorsed Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) in 2008)


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* — Cain and Bachmann have dropped out of the presidential race.



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Reps. John Kline (R-Minn.), Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.) and Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) endorsed Tim Pawlenty, who ended his bid in August.

 

[Steve]

we have a congress with a low approval rate for the last few decades.. so really does anyone care who they endorse?

I personally wouldn't even have wasted the effort to look it up... but then again only a person wanting to follow* would care what they think..










( * a cultist)

 

[Anonymous]

we have a congress with a low approval rate for the last few decades.. so really does anyone care who they endorse?

I personally wouldn't even have wasted the effort to look it up... but then again only a person wanting to follow* would care what they think..










( * a cultist)

If you could comprehend_ you would understand I'm not an R cult or Romney follower--- but he has been endorsed by your cult- probably will be your cults chosen champion- and probably has the best chance of beating Obama...

But as is becoming usual also- the chosen champions of your cult and their leadership are not the best candidates overall... But they have a pretty sad group to choose from... :wink:

 

[Steve]

we have a congress with a low approval rate for the last few decades.. so really does anyone care who they endorse?

I personally wouldn't even have wasted the effort to look it up... but then again only a person wanting to follow* would care what they think..



( * a cultist)

If you could comprehend_ you would understand I'm not an R cult or Romney follower--- but he has been endorsed by your cult- probably will be your cults chosen champion- and probably has the best chance of beating Obama...

But as is becoming usual also- the chosen champions of your cult and their leadership are not the best candidates overall... But they have a pretty sad group to choose from... :wink:

if the so-called cult endorses a leader, and no one cares.. let alone follows their lead,.. then it ain't a cult...

I like most American conservatives don't care what a group of DC insiders think let alone endorses,,, unlike another on here who has posted the same list several times..