campaign donations

Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s newly selected running mate, amassed a healthy campaign warchest during his time as House Budget Committee chairman, starting August with more than $6.1 million in cash in the bank.

But unlike many powerful committee chairmen, Ryan’s biggest source of political money to his re-election campaign and leadership political action committee aren’t the well-oiled special interest groups and their lobbyists who hover the halls of Congress.