Romney Scores Big In Stealth Campaign

How the candidate tied up some of the GOP's biggest donors
By Jake Kelman,  Newser User
Posted Apr 7, 2007 11:27 AM CDT
Romney Scores Big In Stealth Campaign
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney    (Associated Press)

Of all the GOP presidential candidates competing to raise funds, Mitt Romney needs the money least, David Kirkpatrick ovserves in the Times. The founder of a giant private equity firm, he can afford to pay for the race himself. But he's pulled in the most—$20 million—precisely because he needs to show that he's not a Steve Forbes or a Ross Perot.

He did it by leveraging his wealth, and his rolodex, in a savvy campaign, detailed by Kirkpatrick, that began with spending $6 million of his own money to win the governor's race in Massachusetts. Working his network of Mormons and financiers, he built a national operation that's quietly locked up some of the party's most important donors.

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