Who's Paying for the Conventions? Corporate Sponsors Pour Millions into Party Coffers

Who's Paying for the Conventions? Corporate Sponsors Pour Millions into Party Coffers

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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.

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Seems as though everyone is in the pocket of big business. In my opinion this is one of the biggest problems in our country. We give corporations the same representation as individuals. The only difference being that corporations have much larger amount of money to make donations. Thus giving them the upper hand against citizens, leaving many without a voice.
Its supposed to be one person one vote but if a corporation donates thousands or millions to a political figure, which undoubtly helps get them elected, who will the politician try to help once in office?

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