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Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "conventions"
A Truck-Sized Loophole: Corporations, Special Interests to Spend $100 Million on Convention Parties
Michael Winship, TruthOut.org. August 28, 2008.
The parties' conventions offer plenty of opportunity to skirt the spirit of campaign finance laws without violating them.
Dissent Is Essential to Democracy
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. August 14, 2008.
So why are people being arrested for lawful protest?
Who's Paying for the Conventions?
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. July 24, 2008.
A loophole in campaign-finance law allows corporations to pour unlimited funding into political conventions.
Donors to Party Conventions Spent Over $800 Million on Federal Campaign Contributions and Lobbying Since 2005
Steve Weissman, Jennifer Sykes, The Campaign Finance Institute. June 19, 2008.
Obama and McCain will star at party nominating conventions that are largely financed by unlimited contributions from corporate treasuries.
