NH Senate President In Romney Camp?
This, from the Nashua (NH) Telegraph: (emphasis mine)
Friend of Mitt?Is Senate President Ted Gatsas, R-Manchester, already in the 2008 presidential camp of Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney?
Romney couldn’t leave his Big Dig scandal-dominated state to do some politicking, so he did the next best thing Thursday, busing 14 GOP state senators to a Boston fund-raiser to benefit the Gatsas-led Senate Republican Victory PAC.
Nobody’s talking about the haul taken from the penthouse fete at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, but Gatsas couldn’t stop smiling when asked about it.
Some rival presidential hopefuls already put Gatsas in the Romney stable and the marriage of these can-do, successful business tycoons would hardly come as a shock to many GOP observers.
But those who say it’s a done deal are dead wrong, Gatsas said.
“It’s much too early for that. I think he’s done a great job running a very liberal state, but there are many, very qualified people in this field,’’ Gatsas said, listing more than a half dozen others who have impressed him thus far.
And Romney’s not the only one holding out-of-state fundraisers for the Gatsas PAC either.
Gatsas has one in the works for Aug. 25 during the summer horse meet at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He said a number of state GOP senators will be on board his jet to the event – and the lead greeter at this one is none other than New York Gov. George Pataki.
Dave
