WASHINGTON — A mysterious donor who gave $1 million to a political action committee supportive of Mitt Romney for president has been identified.
Former Bain Capital executive Edward Conard gave the donation to the Romney-leaning Restore Our Future PAC, the group said Saturday. Romney co-founded Bain in 1984.
The donation had prompted rebuke from two campaign-finance watchdogs, which called on federal officials to investigate if any laws were broken.
Restore Our Future raised $12.2 million during the first six months of 2011 and was created by former aides to Romney, the former Massachusetts governor.
The outside group is not officially connected to Romney and can receive unlimited funds from corporations, thanks in part to the 2010 Supreme Court ruling known as "Citizens United."
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Thank you MSM for looking out for the American citizens by checkin in our political process, excepting Obama. Good job!
I applaud Romney and his compaign for following the laws as described our the US Supreme Court.
once again much ado about nothing---
until we get reasonable spending habits money will always be a power in politics and trying to control what is spent and how much and when is nuts---either make all campaigning subject to lone personal More..