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Romney gets fund-raising aid from official with firm seeking to build controversial power line

By Shira Schoenberg

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  October 31, 2011

An official involved in a controversial power project in New Hampshire is co-chairing a fundraising event for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. According to an invitation provided by the liberal Center for American Progress, Greg Butler, the senior vice president and general counsel for The Northern Pass, is one of the co-chairs of a $500-a-head fundraiser for Romney at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan this Wednesday evening. Butler co-chaired another Romney fundraiser in September, and has donated $2,500 to Romney’s presidential campaign.

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