Lobbyists supporting Mitt Romney work on a wide-ranging set of issues. Lobbyists raise $1.2 million for Mitt

More than a dozen K Streeters bundled nearly $1.2 million in contributions for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney over the last three months of 2011.

The Massachusetts Republican reported veteran lobbyists like Wayne Berman of Ogilvy Government Relations, Tom Boyd and Ignacio Sanchez of DLA Piper and Bruce Gates of Altria as bundlers. David Beightol of DutkoGrayling, David Tamasi of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications and Edward Ingle of Microsoft, were also among those listed as Romney bundlers on his year-end Federal Election Commission filings.


The lobbyists work on matters before the federal government as wide ranging as financial services, tobacco policy, and carried interest.

Romney surely has many more bundlers, but he only is legally required to report federally registered lobbyists in his public filings.

Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, Romney brought in nearly $24.3 million.

Meanwhile GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reported having no lobbyist bundlers in his fourth quarter FEC filing.

President Barack Obama, who does not take campaign contributions from lobbyists, is the only presidential candidate to voluntarily report all of his bundlers, a move that his campaign says is to increase transparency. Obama reported 445 bundlers over the last three months of 2011.