Super PAC Donors, Revealed - NYTimes.com If you've been wondering where the 1-percenters are placing their bets in the presidential race, the agonizing suspense is over. The so-called "super PACs" have filed their disclosure forms for the last three months of 2011 and the winner is ... Mitt Romney. I know. I was stunned, too. Mr. Romney's "independent" PAC, Restore Our Future (that name always give me a chuckle) got 10 donations of $1 million each, including one from a former top executive at Bain Capital, the leveraged-buyout firm that Mr. Romney helped start. There's nothing quite like having the key to the executive washroom. The list of hedge-fund managers and former Bain partners goes on into the folks who could only afford $500,000 or a measly $250,000. Restore Our Future also received $1 million from John Paulson, a billionaire hedge-fund operator who is best known for having gotten rich betting against the subprime mortgage market. And $1 million from Bob Perry, the Houston homebuilder who helped finance Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the organization that spread lies about John Kerry in the 2004 presidential campaign. Mr. Romney put his foot in his mouth this morning when he confessed that he is not concerned about the very poor. He also said he's not focused on the very rich, and the PAC report shows why. They're all doing just fine, thank you very much, and they're sharing their good fortune with Mr. Romney. The Romney record is truly breathtaking. There's a great little gadget on our website that lets you see who's financing whom. Naturally, one or two really rich people did give to other candidates - like Jon Huntsman's dad, whose check for $1.9 million covered most of his son's super PAC's $2.7 million; and Sheldon Adelson, who has given $10 million to Newt Gingrich's super PAC, Winning Our Future. That PAC also lists three half-million-dollar donations, including from Mr. Adelson's wife's daughter, Sivan Ochshorn. Jeffrey Katzenberg, head of Dreamworks Animation, gave $2 million to Priorities USA action, the PAC that is doing Mr. Obama's bidding while pretending not to. After Mr. Katzenberg, the next biggest check in support of Mr. Obama was $1 million from Service Employees International Union. That is a nice reminder that the Supreme Court's homage to the power of great wealth, the Citizens United decision, also lifted an old restriction on union money in campaigns. There's not nearly as much of that money as corporate money, but it's still corrosive. There is one super PAC focused entirely on small checks, of $200 or less, and it's doing pretty well - with more than $1 million so far. It's Stephen Colbert's super PAC, which is managed "independently" by Mr. Colbert's friend and business associate, Jon Stewart. One last point. I'm starting to hear rumblings that Citizens United didn't go far enough, and that the courts should scrap the law limiting individual direct contributions. It's a horrible idea. Although the silver lining is that we could all stop pretending that the independent super PACs are really independent.