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Opinion: Mitt Romney keeps a silver toe in politics, opens a PAC

By Scott Martelle
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Even if things don’t work out for Mitt Romney in Arizona this weekend, he signaled today that he intends to remain very involved in national politics -- as a financial rainmaker for Republican candidates.

Romney announced the formation of the Free and Strong America PAC and listed John McCain as the first beneficiary along with Dean Andal of Stockton, who is running for California’s 11th Congressional District seat, and six other Republicans.

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You might look at it as an avenue for Romney, former Massachusetts governor, to keep his staff employed. The executive director is Peter Flaherty, Romney’s former deputy chief of staff and deputy campaign manager of Romney’s presidential run. The press contact is Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney’s loyal press aide (see the end of this video).

-- Scott Martelle

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Scott Martelle

Scott Martelle is a former Times staff writer and member of the editorial board. He also is the author of several nonfiction books on such disparate subjects as the Ludlow Massacre and 1913-14 Colorado coalfield war, the history of Detroit, and William Walker, the pre-Civil War American adventurer who for a brief time made himself president of Nicaragua.

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