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Title: Republican Romney to tap ex-pat wealth in London
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URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011 ... n-romney-idUSTRE75P11620110626
Published: Jun 27, 2011
Author: Reporting by Ros Krasny; Editing by Paul
Post Date: 2011-06-27 10:10:58 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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(Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney takes his fund-raising machine to London next month, holding a reception aimed at wealthy American expatriates working at banks and hedge funds. A handful of London fund-raisers were held during the 2008 presidential election cycle, but Romney's event, scheduled for July 6, will be the earliest ever of its kind. The reception will be held at Dartmouth House, an opulent mansion in the heart of Mayfair that is often used for weddings and conferences. The suggested contribution to the "Romney for President" campaign is $2,500, according to an invitation seen by Reuters. Under U.S. law, only American citizens and green card holders can contribute. Romney is the front-runner for the Republican nomination to take on President Barack Obama in 2012, in part because of his campaign's huge war-chest. He also ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. The former Massachusetts governor has held dozens of fund-raisers across the United States this year, including at least three in New York that were hosted by backers from the financial industry. Co-chairs of the London event include billionaire hedge fund manager Louis Bacon, founder of Moore Capital Management; businessman Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV; and Dwight Poler, managing director for Europe at Bain Capital, the venture capital firm that Romney co-founded in 1984. Overseas fund-raisers were unknown for U.S. candidates until former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, at that point among the top Republican candidates, broke the ice in September 2007. John McCain, who eventually won the Republican nomination in 2008, also raised funds in London. And Obama raised a reported $400,000 at the London home of Elizabeth Murdoch, daughter of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, in May 2008. Romney campaign officials did not immediately comment on the candidate's plans while in London.
Republican Romney to tap ex-pat wealth in London
John McCain, who eventually won the Republican nomination in 2008, also raised funds in London. And Obama raised a reported $400,000 at the London home of Elizabeth Murdoch, daughter of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, in May 2008.
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
I refuse to vote for Romney because he believes in Global warming. But at least he didn;t raise money from the Jews like Obama and McCain who went to the Murdoch's and the Rothschilds.
The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie
How funny !
"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." Frederic Bastiat
reason #37 on my list
I'm betting Romney has a mangina.
He's got the Mormon "magic underwear", and since he's been sucking-up to AIPAC, it's probably kosher, too.
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#2. To: Horse (#1)
I refuse to vote for Romney because he believes in Global warming. But at least he didn;t raise money from the Jews like Obama and McCain who went to the Murdoch's and the Rothschilds.
#3. To: Horse (#1)
I refuse to vote for Romney because he believes in Global warming.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#4. To: All (#1)
#5. To: Jethro Tull (#4)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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