Per a 2007 law, campaigns are required to report the names of "bundlers" who are also lobbyists. A "bundler", per Taegan Goddard's Political Dictionary, is
Political fundraisers who can collect contributions from their networks of friends, family members and business associates and then deliver the checks to the candidate in one big “bundle.” Campaigns often recognize these bundlers with honorary titles.
Bundling has always existed in various forms, but has become more important with the enactment of limits on campaign contributions at the federal level and in most states during the 1970s.
And one of Romney's lesser bundlers is one Ignacio E. Sanchez. Per Think Progress:
Ignacio E. Sanchez is a lobbyist at DLA Piper, an influential global law firm and a major bundler for the Mitt Romney campaign. A ThinkProgress review of public records reveals Sanchez is also a registered foreign agent representing the interests of the United Arab Emirates and a former president of the Dominican Republic.
... SNIP ...
One of those lobbyist-bundlers was Sanchez, who raked in $86,700 for the former Massachusetts governor. This major fundraising raises questions about the level of access and influence Sanchez — and by extension, his corporate and international clients — would have in a Romney administration.
And there is a contrast:
President Obama does not accept campaign contributions donated or bundled by federal lobbyists or foreign agents.
I wonder, in my little brain, how happy planet Wingnuttia will be with the news that one of Romney's bundlers is a foreign agent of Hispanic descent who represents an Islamic nation. Washington lobbyist, Hispanic, represents Muslims ... that's pretty close to the trifecta of freak-out.
Really, though ... should people who are working to advance the interests of foreign countries have major influence on who wins our elections? This stinks.
If it were discovered that Obama had taken $0.01 from an agent of an Islamic nation, what do you think Fox News would lead with for the next two weeks?