Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney attended fund
raisers in Medina on June 4, 2012 .
The evening $25,000 per person event was at the waterfront mansion of Wayne and Christine Perry.
More information, including a video, is in KING-5
news.
Wayne is National President of the Boy
Scouts of America and former President of McCaw Cellular and a co-founder of the
Seattle-based Monroe & Perry law firm which evolved into the prominent
Stokes Lawrence firm. He was a Cub Scout as a young boy and has been involved
with the Boy Scouts of America ever since. Previous Boy Scouts positions
include president of the Chief Seattle Council and president of the Western
Region. He was named International Commissioner in 2006 and National President
in 2012. He also has an ownership interest in the Seattle Mariners. The mansion
is 9,450 sq ft on 0.7 acres with 92 feet of waterfront.
An earlier in the
day event was held at the mansion of Peter
Neupert , a
former Drugstore.com and Microsoft executive. He hosted a similar event in the
1990s for President George W. Bush. Neupert’s mansion is north of Perry’s and on
Evergreen Point Road but not on the water. The mansion is 8,000 sq ft on
5.4 acres which is one of the largest lots in Medina . Both mansions are south of Bill Gates’ campus.