Type of organization: Super PAC

Supports candidate: Mitt Romney

Founded: Sept. 10, 2010

Principals:

• David Langdon (treasurer and custodian of records): Attorney with Langdon Law in Cincinnati who has made a number of contributions to Rand Paul, whose campaign Jeremy Hughes (see below) once worked on.
• Jeremy Hughes (past treasurer): Served as the state director of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign in Nevada who previously has been active in politics in Mississippi, Kentucky and Ohio.

Profile:

Restore Our Future is the big-name pro-Romney super PAC. Not so well known is a second organization that hopped on the Romney bandwagon, Citizens for a Working America PAC. The super PAC started in Virginia on Sept. 2, 2010, and it made a large ad buy against then-House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt, D-S.C., in 2010.

It met with some controversy when it accepted a single $255,000 donation in 2010 from a Virginia consulting group called “New Models.” Questions were raised as to whether the group was being used as a pass-through for unnamed donors.

For the 2012 GOP presidential election, the group said it would support Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who has dropped out. The PAC has made a single expenditure of $455,000 in support of Romney for television advertising in South Carolina, Federal Election Commission records show.

The PAC is not to be confused -- or perhaps should be confused -- with a group that has nearly the same name, Citizens for a Working America Inc., which is apparently a nonprofit registered under section 501(c)(4) of the U.S. tax code that made a $475,000 Christmas Eve ad buy supporting Romney. 

iWatch News traced an address in a FEC filing for that group showing a home base of JSN Associates in Dayton, Ohio. The “JSN” is James S. Nathanson, who said the group is “very definitely pro-Romney.” He would not say who the group’s donors are.

See more data on Citizens for a Working America PAC at OpenSecrets.org.

Advertisements:

• “Believe in America,” a pro-Romney ad.

Last updated: April 23, 2012