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AS OTHERS SAY IT
Pay for your own convention
--The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla.

    As voters watch the expensive sets and glitz of the national political parties’ conventions, they may wonder who’s paying for all this. The answer: They are.
    Taxpayers are footing a large share of the bill for the conventions, and they shouldn’t have to. To begin with, each convention will get more than $16 million in federal money to help pay for convention operations. To make matters worse, Congress voted to appropriate $50 million in Homeland Security funds to pay for security at each convention.
    There’s really no reason for this expense when money is tight and the federal government operates at a tremendous deficit.
    The conventions are no longer a decisionmaking part of the election process. Nominees have long been set. The Democratic National Convention last week and the Republican National Convention this week are nothing more than political theater. They are scripted campaign commercials on free network television time.
    While the federal government is operating in the red, the campaigns are awash in revenue. Both presidential campaigns are raising tens of millions of dollars each month. They and their parties should pay for their conventions.

once more the repbs are not walking the walk that they talk and should pay up already overe here. The demos dont preach the responsibility with the money so they at least are not be hypocrites indeed. The repubs are since they pretend to be for the money saving. The only real repub we have locally is ANGELO our movie star legislator and TRUE conserv!