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The District may only have 16 delegates to give to a Republican contender, but for Mitt Romney’s slow march towards the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination, no delegate is being left behind.

Yesterday Romney announced his D.C. campaign chair and two co-chairs. Former D.C. GOP chair Betsy Werronen will head up the campaign leading to the April 3 primary, while Teri Galvez (currently running to be an RNC Committeewoman) and Rich Counts (who once led the D.C. Young Republicans) will co-chair.

The announcement comes only days after winning the D.C. GOP straw poll by a lopsided margin over Newt Gingrich—72 percent for the former Massachusetts governor to 8.7 percent for the former Speaker of the House. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum tied for third with 8.1 percent each of the 200 votes cast.

Romney is expected to win next Tuesday’s D.C. Republican presidential primary, likely besting Gingrich, Jon Huntsman (who isn’t even in the race anymore) and Paul. Santorum, who is considered Romney’s only remaining competition nationally, did not file the paperwork to appear on D.C.’s ballot. While D.C. Republicans are a diverse bunch, they tend to go with the establishment front-runner—in 2008, they overwhelmingly went with Sen. John McCain. (In that contest, Romney came in a distant fourth, losing McCain, Mike Huckabee and Paul.)

Romney’s list of delegates include Patrick Mara, a former GOP candidate for an At-Large seat on the D.C. Council and current member of the D.C. State Board of Education. As the Blade reports, Romney and Gingrich have divided up some of the city’s active gay Republicans, with former Ward 1 candidate Marc Morgan and current Ward 5 candidate Tim Day siding with Gingrich while activist Rachel Hoff opting for Romney.

There are some 30,000 registered Republicans in D.C. In 2008, 20 percent came out to vote; in the 2000 primary, only 10 percent did.