Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) has not yet said whether or not he\u2019s making a run at the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, but he\u2019s already showing that he can raise some serious bucks.<\/p>\n
Officials with Pawlenty\u2019s PAC, Freedom First, tell us they raised nearly $1.3 million dollars in the 4th<\/sup> quarter of 2009.<\/p>\n PACs are often used by politicians who are looking at making a run at higher office. Pawlenty announced last summer that he would not be seeking a third term as governor next year.<\/p>\n Following that announcement speculation grew even hotter that he was setting his sights on a Presidential bid instead.<\/p>\n \u00a0Then in October of 2009, Pawlenty launched his PAC and became a frequent speaker on the conservative circuit.<\/p>\n Other Republicans who have a PAC and are thought to be big time players for the 2012 GOP nomination include former Alaska Governor and Republican mega-star Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n Former Governors and 2008 presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee also have their own PACs.<\/p>\n Palin and Huckabee have not filed their new FEC reports yet.<\/p>\n Romney files his monthly instead of quarterly. \u00a0Recent press reports say Romney\u2019s Free and Strong America PAC raised $2.7 million thru November of 2009 and had about $1.1 million cash on hand.<\/p>\n Romney however has a sizeable personal fortune that he used to help fuel his presidential run in 2008. \u00a0<\/p>\n The former Massachusetts Governor told us recently that he has not made up his mind about whether he will run in 2012, and that he would rather not use his personal fortune for any future run, but also won\u2019t rule it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) has not yet said whether or not he\u2019s making a run at the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, but he\u2019s already showing that he can raise some serious bucks. Officials with Pawlenty\u2019s PAC, Freedom First, tell us they raised nearly $1.3 million dollars in the 4th quarter of 2009. PACs are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4535,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}