Big donations for Romney super PAC

The pro-Mitt Romney super PAC, Restore Our Future, set itself up for a major October push with a parade of six- and seven-figure contributions last month.

Restore Our Future’s cash-flush September was led by $2 million from Texas homebuilder Bob Perry, whose numerous political donations this election cycle also include $1 million in September to conservative super PAC Club for Growth Action.


Houston Texans football teamowner Bob McNair contributed $1 million, as did Stanley Herzog, chairman of Missouri-based Herzog Contracting , helping Restore Our Future enter this month with more than $16.5 million in reserve.

In all, Restore Our Future took in $14.83 million for the month and spent only $4.56 million, according to a report filed Friday afternoon with the Federal Election Commission.

But during the first half of October, the super PAC has spent more than $10.1 million exclusively attacking President Barack Obama in advertisements, according to federal political expenditure filings.

Other notable individual donations last month came from Nu Skin Enterprises executive Steven Lund ($500,000), his wife, Kalleen Lund, ($500,000), investor William Laverack Jr. ($500,000), Alliance Coal President and Chief Executive Joseph Craft III ($500,000), Caxton Alternative Management executive Bruce Kovner ($500,000), Intercontinental Exchange vice president Kelly Loeffler ($300,000) and brewing scion August Busch III ($250,000).

Among corporate entities, Florida-based Oxbow Carbon, run by William Koch, a lesser-known sibling of billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, contributed $1 million.

William Koch made headlines this week when a former Oxbow Carbon executive accused him of kidnapping and illegally detaining him at a Colorado ranch — accusations Oxbow representatives roundly deny. In turn, Oxbow is accusing the ex-employee, Kirby Martensen, of accepting bribes from competitors.

Several other corporations also made direct donations to the super PAC in September, including Greenpoint Technologies of Kirkland, Wash. ($250,000); Suffolk Construction of Boston ($200,000) and Noble Royalties of Addison, Texas ($100,000).

While most of Restore Our Future’s September spending went toward slamming Obama, it did spend more than $339,000 on fundraising consulting services from the Podium Capital Group in Boston — a firm run by Steve Roche, a former Romney fundraiser and operative.