Amy Goodman's New Column: "Who?s Paying for the Conventions?"
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The election season is heating up, with back-to-back conventions approaching?the Democrats in Denver followed by the Republicans in St. Paul, Minn. The conventions have become elaborate, expensive marketing events, where the party?s ?presumptive? nominee has a coronation with much fanfare, confetti and wall-to-wall media coverage. What people don?t know is the extent to which major corporations fund the conventions, pouring tens of millions of dollars into a little-known loophole in the campaign-finance system. More
Source: Democracy Now! Blog