The Boston Herald
Former Gov. Mitt Romney may have hit one out of the park at Thursday’s GOP debate, but he’s lost the support of a deep-pocketed Bay State Republican and a former top adviser.
Romney’s former financial czar Robert Pozen, who’s now head of MFS Investments, has thrown his considerable clout behind Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). Records show Pozen has donated $4,600 to Clinton’s presidential campaign but has made no contributions to Romney’s 2008 White House bid.
Pozen was a donor to Romney’s gubernatorial campaign in 2004 and was one of two so-called “super” Cabinet secretaries tapped by Romney to lead his administration.
A former Social Security adviser to President Bush, Pozen is just the latest high-profile Massachusetts supporter to turn away from Romney. Richard Egan, billionaire founder of Hopkinton’s EMC Corp., has hopped on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s bandwagon.
Egan, who led a record fund-raising effort in Romney’s 2002 gubernatorial victory, is now Giuliani’s Massachusetts finance chairman. In addition to his clout in the Bay State, Egan, a former ambassador to Ireland, is a force on the national GOP scene and was one of President Bush’s top fund-raisers.......
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