Young Spencer Zwick was Mitt Romney's campaign finance director with a twist. He did so through his own private business. I think this is a twist.

Zwick isn’t employed by the campaign. Instead, SJZ, LLC, a Boston company he formed that has taken in nearly $5 million for “fundraising consulting” from Romney this election season.



Watchdog groups, meanwhile, complain that the consultants make it hard to tell where campaign cash is ultimately going—some firms have been tied to the super PAC backing Romney. "If there are important people working for this firm who get favors down the line during a President Romney administration, you will never know about that," a Sunlight Foundation director says.

Well, yeah! Isn't this the goal?

Actually, Slick Zwick's SJZ, Inc took in $9,690,266

Gee, I wonder if small donors know about Zwick's windfall at their expense?

And Zwick is simultaneously keeping an eye on funding his & Tagg Romney's private equity firm, Solamere.

So many interests, so much money, so little time. Sigh!

Rove must like Zwick & Tagg Romney.

Karl Rove Gave Secret Speech Outside Romney Donor Retreat for Solamere.

Meg Whitman likes Zwick, too. Meg paid Zwick's SJZ Inc. $564,046 and Solamere $96,000, where Meg's son, Griffith R. Harsh IV became a junior analyst. The payments to Solamere were for the services of Mason J Fink who left Solamere when Meg's son joined Solamere.

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