Saturday, August 06, 2011

Romney's $1 Million Donor Tried to Donate Secretly

Only rich people get away with this kind of stuff. But not this time. Thank goodness for watchdog groups. The fact that Edward Conrad, a former executive at Bain Capital (co-founded by Romney), wanted to give his $1 million in secret is underhanded and slimy and an example of how the wealthy support the wealthy.
Conrad gave the contribution to Restore our Future PAC, a pro-Romney group, through W Spann LLC, a corporation that appears to have been specially set up to make the contribution.

W Spann gave the money a few weeks after being established in March and dissolved itself last month. The Hill