| Top 10 Donors* | Who are They? |
Peter Karmanos gave a total of $236,750 to Romney in three separate donations through his Michigan and Iowa PACs. |
Karmanos is the founder and CEO of Compuware which bids for public contracts. He has given to both Democrats and Republicans in the 2006 election cycle. |
| Darlene Jordan gave $100,000 to Romney on September 25 in the form of two equal donations to his Iowa and Michigan PACs. | Jordan is a former assistant attorney general in Massachusetts and runs the philanthropic Gerald R. Jordan Foundation. |
Sam Fox gave $100,000 on July 13 to Romney's Iowa PAC. |
Fox is a major Republican fundraiser and chairman of the national Republican Jewish Coalition. The Missouri businessman paid for Romney to take a trip to Alaska with Missouri Governor Matt Blunt in August. |
| David Weinstein gave a total of $87,000 to Romney's Iowa and Michigan PACs on June 12. | Weinstein is executive vice president of Fidelity Investments, the largest mutual fund company in the United States and is in charge of the company's |
Robert Taubman gave a total of $86,500 to Romney on June 1 through two equal donations to his Iowa and Michigan PACs. |
Taubman is CEO of Taubman Centers, Inc., a real estate investment trust that develops and operates regional shopping centers nationally. He is also a member of the U. S. Travel and Tourism Promotion Advisory Board. |
| Ilija Letica gave Romney $86,500 on June 21 through his Iowa and Michigan PACs. | Letica is the founder of the Letica Corporation, a nationwide manufacturer of paper and plastic packaging. |
Mark Johnson Chapin gave Romney a total of $73,000 through two separate donations to his Iowa and Michigan PACs on June 30. |
Chapin is CEO of Chapin Medical Company of California and the President of the Mark Chapin Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit organization active in Christian communities. |
John Kaneb gave Romney $73,000 through two separate donations to his Iowa and Michigan PACs on July 21 and July 26. |
Kaneb is the CEO of Gulf Oil. He is also a limited partner in the Boston Red Sox and, with his family, owns H.P. Hood, one of New England's largest dairies. He and his wife, Virginia, are the founders of an annual Massachusetts fundraiser that brings in millions for Catholic Charities. |
L.E. Simmons gave $55,750 to Romney's Michigan PAC. |
Simmons is President of SCF Partners, a private equity fund in Houston, Texas that has great influence in the oil industry. |
| Donald Miller gave Romney $43,250 total to his Iowa and Michigan PACs on July 26 and 31. | Miller is an executive at Axiom International, which manages international equity assets. He lives in Greenwich, Connecticut. |
*Information is based on records from the Iowa and Michigan campaign finance databases |