The story today about the left-leaning contributions of reporters gives me a great excuse to disclose a few things. I have no problem doing this because:

A) Everybody already knows who I support
B) I'm not a reporter

I'm proud of the fact that I announced my intentions to support Mitt Romney in November of last year. I was so convicted of this fact that I dropped my long time personal blog (Right Side Redux) to focus on building MyManMitt.com. It's a risk I don't believe I will regret.

MyManMitt has been a great success raking in over 1200 users a day after starting from scratch in January. Jason Bonham, my cohort in this effort, and numerous other bloggers have made this a reality.

Disclosure #1

As many of your know Jason and I hold a position on the Faith and Values Committee for the Romney campaign.

I should note that you don't have to endorse a candidate if you are on a committee (although it's likely most members do). Being part of the committee in no way indicates that I am a campaign "official" as some have implied.


Disclosure #2

I am now a paid consultant for the campaign. This was more of a fluke than anything else. I am not consulting them on blogging (they have Stephen Smith for that)... rather I have a really nifty computer and the a decent speaking voice. Read on...

The campaign is using SalesForce.com to manage relationships with potential donors. The vast fundraising team uses this tool to give them a dashboard of money raised etc...

SalesForce.com is a great tool but it requires some training. I thought I would help my fellow unpaid fundraisers and put together a video demonstrating some of the functions of the application. I submitted the video screen capture to the campaign.

They loved it! But, they are clean-nosed crew and said they had to pay me for it.

Disclosure #3
As many of you know I have taken a position as Vice President of Communications for the Lighted Candle Society. This new job requires a lot of attention so I will probably be scaling back my MyManMitt activities a bit. Since I have a more public position I will probably be cautious about all of my dealings going forward.

If your interested... we could certainly use your help at the Lighted Candle Society. More info here.

Labels: Justin Hart, Lighted Candle Society