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Who’s Paying for the Conventions? Corporate Sponsors Pour Millions into Party Coffers
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July 22, 2008
Denvercorpweb Who’s Paying for the Conventions? Corporate Sponsors Pour Millions into Party Coffers
Less than two weeks after Congress granted retroactive immunity to telecoms involved in the Bush spy program, it’s been learned AT&T will be emblazoned on every delegate’s bag at the Democratic National Convention. Like Comcast, Motorola, Coca-Cola, Google and a host of other corporate sponsors, the telecom giant has donated over a million dollars to the DNC in return for prominent display space and access to elected officials. But none of these companies have fully disclosed their projected contributions to the convention, according to a new report from the Campaign Finance Institute. We speak with the group’s associate director for policy, Steve Weissman.
Those dirty buggers. I'm glad the Republicans don't do this.
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Democrats and Republicans will party hard on soft money
Both political conventions are counting on lobbyists and corporations to foot a big part of the bill.
By Tom Hamburger and Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
June 18, 2008
WASHINGTON -- When delegates travel to the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions late this summer, they'll enter a cocoon of corporate largesse. Democrats will fly to Denver on reduced-fare tickets provided by United Airlines. Many will be picked up in plush new vehicles donated by General Motors that run on fuel made from "waste beer" donated by Molson Coors Brewing Co.
Like their GOP counterparts, they'll communicate using state-of-the-art technology provided by Microsoft, Google, Qwest or AT&T. And they'll party at corporate-funded events surrounding a carefully calibrated convention that has become, basically, a multimillion-dollar infomercial underwritten by corporations and lobbyists whose influence both presidential candidates decry.
I should have used the sarcasm smilie. Obama and McCain both rail on special interest groups and then have them pay for their coronation---err, I mean, conventions.
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