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Pawlenty's New Hampshire donors: Minnesotans...and a baseball team
Posted by: under National campaigns Updated: August 27, 2010 - 3:22 PM
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has received $42,500 in contributions for his New Hampshire state political action committee since it began in June, including money from major Minnesota Republican donors — and a former minor league baseball team from Columbia, Mo.
Pawlenty, who’s weighing a 2012 presidential run, received eight $5,000 checks and one $2,500 donation to his New Hampshire state Freedom First PAC, according to New Hampshire election filings.
The donors list is a who’s who of Minnesota GOP bigwigs: Hubbard Broadcasting executive Stanley Hubbard, former Target CEO Robert Ulrich, Twin Cities businessman and philanthropist Wheelock Whitney, and David Frauenshuh.
The money from Pawlenty’s state PACs in New Hampshire and Iowa supplements the $2.6 million he’s raised federally.
Of Pawlenty’s New Hampshire backers, nearly all have given the Minnesota governor the maximum yearly contribution of $5,000 to his federal PAC in either 2009, 2010 or both years.
But one of Pawlenty’s New Hampshire contributions comes from a Missouri company called “Columbia Professional Baseball.” The company, tied to the Wendt family, according to documents filed with the Missouri Secretary of State’s office, operated a Missouri minor league baseball team that hasn’t played since 2006.
Gregory Wendt, an executive at Capitol Group in San Francisco, gave Pawlenty’s federal PAC the maximum $5,000 in both 2009 and 2010.
Companies are allowed to donate up to $5,000 per election to political committees in New Hampshire, according to the secretary of state’s office.
Pawlenty spent $27,000 in New Hampshire this summer, including donating $2,000 among seven New Hampshire state candidates and $650 to two county GOP groups. He spent more than $10,000 on political consulting.
Last week, Politico reported how state PACs set up by potential presidential candidates like Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney allow them to skirt individual maximum contribution rules.
Romney received only $20,000 from three donors for his New Hampshire state PAC this quarter, but the 2008 presidential candidate has raised more than $300,000 in total in the state, and he has more than $100,000 cash on hand there.
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