Mitt Romney’s Commonwealth PAC filed a termination report with the Federal Elections Commission on November 21.

In 2006, the Commonwealth PAC was Romney’s method to support his travel and to fund state candidates as he considered whether to run for president.

Kirk Jowers, the chairman of Commonwealth PAC, said that the decision to shut down the PAC was simply a matter of time after Romney ceased his association with it, once he started his formal campaign.

“The main reason is we haven’t raised any money for any of the PACs this year,” Jowers said. ”The federal PAC has to carry at least 50 percent of the administrative expenses, and it was going to dry up the funding.”

Jowers said the Commonwealth had no more employees after Romney declared his candidacy; he and a paralegal remained to ensure the PAC remained current on filings, taxes, etc. on a consultant basis.

Among the final expenditures for the PAC, all dated September 20, were $2,000 to the Ascend Humanitarian Alliance, $2,000 to the American Red Cross, $1,000 to the Greenbrier County (W.V.) Republican Committee, and $1,000 to Diabetes Action Research & Education.

Romney’s campaign, reminding me that PACs are separate entities and independent of the campaign and in fact forbidden by law from coordinating activities, stated that they had no idea why the PAC shut down, nor have they asked, nor have they ever interacted with the PAC, nor brushed elbows while walking down the street nor made eye contact.