Racey
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You all know the RNC took somewhere between 18 and 50 million (we've yet to see the total cost of all the security and law enforcement operations in Tampa, but they've already got 18 Million for the convention itself) of the tax payers' dollars to hold a convention with no purpose, there was no vote to be had, no talking to be done, no parliamentary procedure, Robert's Rules of Order thrown out the window. They could have saved us all a lot of money and time, and just made Romney/Ryan the ticket without putting all the taxpayers through this circus.
This doesn't count the costs of several millions more of the party members' money in Caucus states, and the States' money in Primary states, to hold caucuses and primary elections...
http://marylandreporter.com/2012/08/29/conventions-cost-federal-taxpayers-as-much-as-136-million/
This doesn't count the costs of several millions more of the party members' money in Caucus states, and the States' money in Primary states, to hold caucuses and primary elections...
http://marylandreporter.com/2012/08/29/conventions-cost-federal-taxpayers-as-much-as-136-million/
[video=youtube;B39W91O-rUg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B39W91O-rUg[/video]http://www.fec.gov/press/bkgnd/fund.shtml
Public grants of $18,248,300 went to each of the major parties for their conventions in 2012.