Huntsman se hace con importantes recaudadores

Wall Street Journal:

As he mulls jumping into the presidential race, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. is corralling some big GOP fund-raisers—and even a few who helped Hillary Clinton in 2008.

A list of prominent Huntsman bundlers obtained by Washington Wire includes Georgette Mosbacher, a former Republican National Committee finance co-chairman, and John Mack, the Morgan Stanley chairman who was a big backer of President George W. Bush in 2004 but then switched parties to support Ms. Clinton in 2008.

Also on the list are Peter Malone, a Massachusetts-based corporate adviser who raised more than $250,000 for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, and Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a former Democratic operative and Clinton bundler who accused then-Sen. Barack Obama of being “an elitist” after he beat Ms. Clinton in the primaries. Ms. de Rothschild then switched to support Mr. McCain.

(...) The list of Huntsman bundlers includes several big donors who have been heavily pursued by other GOP contenders, particularly former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Among them is New York real-estate investor Michael Ashner. Utah banker Scott Anderson, chairman and CEO of Salt Lake City’s Zions Bank, signed on with the Huntsman camp early on, as did Tom Loeffler, a former Texas congressman who played a major fund-raising role for Mr. Bush in 2000 and for Mr. McCain in 2008. (...)