BOSTON.COM : "Romney fundraising day yields $10.25m" - Mitt Romney is the Republican Front Runner, at least in fundraising - Friend of Big Banks and Defense Spending - Enemy of Bank Regulations and "Entitlements" for Minorities and the Poor

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Here is a Super Conservative with the greatest capacity to raise money for his Presidential Campaign - He is a Mormon, and a defender of Big Money and the Super Rich, because he is one of them

The Boston Globe
Politics,Campaign 2012
Romney fundraising day yields $10.25m
by Matt Viser, Globe Staff
May 16, 2011


Romney fundraising day yields $10.25m


Some excerpts :

LAS VEGAS – Mitt Romney raised $10.25 million from his National Call Day here today, far exceeding the haul he brought in from a similar fundraising day in Boston four years ago.

With around 720 supporters placing calls around the country throughout the day, he sought to put on full display one of the most important attributes for his emerging campaign: raising money.

Supporters -- gathered in a conference room at the Las Vegas Convention Center that Romney aides happily noted was the size of two football fields -- began gathering to make calls at 5:30 a.m., asking contributors to give the maximum to his campaign.

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The National Call Day was similar to a daylong fundraising event Romney held in Boston during his last campaign, which his staff said drew about 400 people and brought in $6.5 million in actual contributions and signed pledges.

That event, held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, was meant to highlight his home state, with the Fenway Park anthem “Dirty Water” blaring from the loudspeakers after he spoke.

This time, the event was held 2,700 miles away, and designed to show how import Nevada will be to Romney’s campaign this time. The state is set to be third in line, behind Iowa and New Hampshire, and Romney has placed nearly as much early emphasis on Nevada as he has on New Hampshire.

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Romney also criticized the financial reform legislation passed by Congress last year and spearheaded by Representative Barney Frank, of Newton. He called it a “massive burden” and said “it make it harder” for businesses to prepare for future investments.

“Washington passed this big Dodd-Frank bill…that has literally thousands of pages of regulations,” Romney said. “Because the banking industry is so frightened, they’ve held back” on making investment.

He also said he would cut the deficit, largely by focusing on discretionary spending cuts and reforms to entitlement programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Romney has yet to outline in-depth what types of reforms that would entail.

But he also pledged not to cut the defense budget, saying any spending viewed as wasteful would be redirected to military programs.

He closed by thanking the 900,000 followers who had become his friend through Facebook, and then requested that they consider making a donation.

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