There's always another KKKarl cacaroach to keep track of: meet Carl FORTI, cash manager

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/us/politics/steering-the-rights-vast-money-machine.html

[font size=5]Ex-Romney Aide Steers Vast Machine of G.O.P. Money[/font]

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE

.... But Carl Forti, a low-profile Buffalo native who served as the political director of Mitt Romney’s first White House campaign, will deploy at least $400 million in political money this season, more than Senator John McCain spent running for president in 2008.

After years in the Republican Party trenches, Mr. Forti, 40, is now a consultant and strategist for the biggest of the outside groups and “super PACs” that are rapidly displacing parties as the means for raising and spending vast amounts of political money. ....



Most of the advertising has been placed through a company called Crossroads Media, founded by one of Mr. Forti’s Black Rock partners and housed in the same office suite. So far this cycle, Crossroads and Restore Our Future have broadcast ads in about 40 Senate and House races as well as the presidential race, officials at the groups said, a breadth unmatched in the world of independent spending. ....



Mr. Forti’s own career is a case study in the evolution of unrestricted money and outside groups from the margins to the mainstream of American politics. He spent seven and a half years at the House campaign committee. In his last year, 2006, he supervised its $80 million “independent expenditure” campaign, so called because the spending is financed by the party but cannot be coordinated with the party’s candidates. ....

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