PRO-ROMNEY PAC spent $13.5 million in January – Yahoo! News
By MB Snow at February 21, 2012 | 12:06 am | Print
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mitt Romney is struggling to regain control of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his allies appear ready to offer him a strong crutch for the road ahead.
Restore Our Future, the independent “Super PAC” that supports Romney, spent $13.5 million in January on ads attacking his rivals and still emerged with $16.3 million in the bank, according to disclosures filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission.
The pro-Romney PAC, or political action committee, spent $12.3 million alone on TV, Internet and radio ads that went after former U.S. House of Representatives speaker Newt Gingrich, Romney’s chief rival at the time.
Challenging Gingrich’s ethics and judgment, the ads helped propel Romney to victory in the Florida primary on January 31 and gave Gingrich a public relations problem from which he has not recovered.
Now, with Romney facing a new challenge from former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in the Michigan primary on February 28, Restore Our Future is spending another $7.7 million in several key states — including Michigan, where the PAC has spent $1.8 million on ad spots.
Monday’s filing with the FEC showed how the pro-Romney PAC is still the leader in a new era of campaign spending, in which independent groups can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to try to boost or tear down candidates.
Last month alone, Restore Our Future raised $6.6 million, more than any of its candidate-boosting rivals raised in all of 2011.
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