The same day dealmaker-turned-Massachusetts-Governor Mitt Romney turned over the keys to the gilded domed state house in Boston to Democrat Deval Patrick, he threw his hat into the ring for the Republican presidential nomination.
The former Bain Capital co-founder has been rumored to be interested in the White House ever since he started traveling the country last year testing the waters. Of course, the early tiptoes into the pool were unofficial until this week. Instead, most of those trips were junkets sponsored by the Republican Governors Association, which Romney chaired.
On Wednesday, he officially filed papers with the Federal Election Commission to create Romney for President Exploratory Committee, Inc., which allows him to start fundraising. Romney reportedly wasted no time on the fundraising beat sending out e-mails to a list of supporters, according to The New York Times’ The Caucus blog.
While there is no official word he intends to tap into his friends in private equity and venture capital circles, it would come as no surprise if he did considering the reports in The New York Daily News about former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's plans to court dealmakers from Wall Street and elsewhere. — Matthew Wurtzel
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