From Nat Fortune for State Auditor:

October 6th, 2010

CONNAUGHTON OVERLOOKS OWN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LOBBYISTS

In brief remarks today, Green-Rainbow Party State Auditor candidate Nat Fortune said Republican candidate Mary Connaughton was right to criticize Democratic candidate Suzanne Bump’s reliance on contributions from political action committees and lobbyists, but also noted that Connaughton failed to bring up her own campaign’s dependence on industry and lobbyists.

“Looks like Mary Connaughton needs to do a closer audit of her own campaign,” said Fortune.  “As of 20 July 2010, the independent watchdog group National Institute for Money in State Politics http://www.followthemoney.org/ had identified at least a dozen contributions from lobbyists to her campaign, including prominent Beacon Hill lobbyists Thomas Trimarco of O’Neil and Associates and Robert White of Robert White and Associates,” Fortune continued. Other contributors included Daniel Haley and William Weld of the New York based lobbying group McDermett, Will, and Emery, recent lobbyists in Massachusetts for Raytheon Corporation and the failed investment bank Lehman Brothers (2008).