Mitt Romney's Cousins Are Hitting The Campaign Trail — To Support Ron Paul (PHOTOS)

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Meet the Other Romney boys. All five support Ron Paul. (Courtesy of Ty Romney)

Updates below.
The Ron Paul campaign took a playful jab at its best frenemy Mitt Romney today, touting endorsements from five of Romney's distant cousins.
In a press release this afternoon, Paul campaign spokesman Gary Howard announced that the Romney relatives — "indeed those related to fellow Presidential candidate Mitt Romney" — will all stump for Paul at Idaho caucuses on Super Tuesday.
According to the release, the endorsements are part of the Paul campaign's efforts to rally support in the Mormon community. The Romney family is prominent in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Mormon voters are expected to give Romney a winning boost in Idaho tomorrow. (The release also notes an earlier Paul endorsement from Rick Santorum's nephew John Garver.) 

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Although the Paul campaign has made several public overtures to LDS voters, polls indicate that the former Massachusetts Governor has a lock on the Mormon vote. It seems unlikely that Paul's new surrogates will do much to change those numbers, even if they are Romney relatives.
Still, today's release is another amusing campaign stunt from Paul, the new Merry Prankster of the 2012 Republican presidential circus. 
(Read the full release after the jump.)
UPDATE 1: 
The Paul campaign just sent out another release about its new Romney relative surrogates, this time announcing that Chad Romney, a construction project manager from Kuna, Idaho, is phone banking for Ron Paul in the campaign's Boise headquarters.
According to the Paul campaign, Chad Romney shares "common ancestry" with the former Massachusetts Governor.
Here's a picture of Chad Romney phonebanking for Paul, courtesy of the Ron Paul 2012 campaign.

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Chad Romney phonebanks for Ron Paul in Boise, Idaho.

UPDATE 2:  
Ty Romney, one of the five Romney relatives supporting Ron Paul, emailed Business Insider this afternoon to clarify the relationship between all of the Romneys.
In the email, Ty Romney said that he and the other four Romneys supporting Ron Paul — Chad, Jared, Travis, and Troy — are brothers.
"Mitt's five boys obviously back their dad..but we five Romney boys have always backed Ron Paul," Ty Romney emails. "In my opinion we are at least the better looking Romney side."
He explains that his great-great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, is Mitt Romney's great-grandfather, although the two branches of the family do not share a maternal ancestor. (Miles Park Romney was a Mormon polygamist and the two Romney families are descended from different wives.)

Ty also emailed pictures. Check out the Other Romneys below: 

Courtesy of Ty Romney

Courtesy of Ty Romney

Courtesy of Ty Romney

Courtesy of Ty Romney

Here's the original release from the Paul campaign. (Emphasis mine.)
BOISE, Idaho – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul was endorsed today by several members of the Romney family, indeed those related to fellow Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
Ty Romney is an attorney handling property and liability claims for State Farm Mutual in Great Falls, Montana and received his Bachelors of Arts Degree from the University of Utah and his Juris Doctorate Degree from Seattle University School of Law.  He is an active member of the Idaho State Bar Association.
Ty said, "Ron Paul is honest.  It's time to take a stand for honesty.  It doesn't matter whether the truth is popular or not, I know that Ron Paul will always maintain a true principle and I endorse that degree of integrity."
Travis Romney is a chiropractor based in Spokane, Washington, and will be speaking at the Greyhound Park caucus location in Kootenai County.  With his dad a second cousin to Mitt Romney, Travis is a second cousin once removed.
“I support Ron Paul because he defends the Constitution, loves America and understands what it means to be an American, including the right to live your life any way you want as long as you respect others,” said Travis. He continued, “I love his foreign policy of maintaining peace and trade while making a strong national defense a top priority, and that you only go to war legally through a declaration by the people through their elected representatives.”
Also sharing common ancestry, Chad Romney resides in the Boise area and will be speaking at the Glenns Ferry caucus location in Elmore County.
Jared Romney, out of Salt Lake City, said his grandfather is a first cousin with former Michigan Governor George Romney, the father of Mitt Romney, and stated, “It really comes down to Ron Paul championing the ideas of the Constitution, in how he lives it, understanding we must return to and follow its guiding principles.  He also understands we must reign in the Federal Reserve System which is destroying our economy.”

Troy Romney also lives in Salt Lake City and is a University of Utah student, and will be speaking at the Montpelier caucus location in Bear Lake County.  Troy’s grandfather and George Romney are cousins as well.  Troy said he supports Ron Paul because “he stands for the values and principles America was founded upon.”
These family member endorsements are preceded by an announcement of support for Ron Paul by Rick Santorum’s nephew, John Garver.
Concerning the active “Latter-day Saints for Ron Paul” coalition, this announcement follows the high-profile endorsements of Overstock.com President Jonathan Johnson, prominent author and chair of the Utah Tenth Amendment Center Connor Boyack, and that of Utah Republican Liberty Caucus Chair Darcy Van Orden. 

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All such announcements help present Ron Paul as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney and demonstrate that no presidential candidate has a monopoly on this crucial western states voter segment or even, for that matter, the Romney family.
As a function of this announcement, the above-mentioned persons now are members of the “Latter-day Saints for Ron Paul” nationwide coalition.
As a first basic step, those wanting to join the active “Latter-day Saints for Ron Paul” nationwide coalition should complete the Idaho state coalition sign-up form visit the official national coalition web page by clicking here.