Hat tip to The Caucus Cooler for this one.
In addition to Romney’s endorsements from South Carolina yesterday, he announced several more from Iowa today. They are:
Former State House Speaker Brent Siegrist
Current State House Speaker Christopher Rants
First Congressional District Candidate Brian Kennedy
Former Governor Candidate Doug Gross
Siegrist and Kennedy will serve as advisers on Romney’s campaign. Looks like Rants and Gross have been on board Team Romney for awhile, but I don’t think we ever mentioned them here at R4’08.
[UPDATE: Romney also announced today the addition to his team of RNC member and long-time pro-life activist James Bopp, Jr. Bopp (what a name!) has provided legal counsel to groups such as the National Right to Life Committee, Focus on the Family, the Traditional Values Coalition, and a slew of other pro-life/Christian/family values groups. This is obviously a huge endorsement and hire for Team Romney.]
January 30th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
I think it’s very wise for Romney to be working to gain the support of
state-level party leaders like he is. These endorsements are probably
more benifitial at this stage in the race ($$$).
January 30th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
I was tempted to make a Cyndi Lauper, “She-Bop!” joke, but then I thought the better of it.
January 30th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Heavy,
No doubt there will be many many more endorsements, so it doesn’t really make sense to re-post the entire list for each candidate every time something changes. Yet having the whole list scattered amongst several weeks or months worth of posts won’t be particularly helpful either.
Any thoughts to collecting this info in the candidates’ BIO sections through the link on their portraits on the left side of the page?
January 30th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
murphy, that’s worth looking into. I had planned to just do updates (The Endorsement Race, like I did this past weekend) about once a month or so, depending on how quickly the list changes. So if you can wait that long for a complete list, that might be the way we go.
I’ll still do updates like these on a day-to-day basis.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:34 am
Romney can’t win the general election.
January 31st, 2007 at 10:53 am
I concur. And I’m tired of all the so-called “conservatives,” too.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Huckabee picks up Carroll and Vander-Platts in Iowa. They will Co-Chair his Iowa Campaign. I say
great pick-ups. Both are very very connected and have strong grassroots organizations. Huckabee is
making his move and getting ready to take the lead in Iowa.