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Michael Winship, Truthout: "There will be more than 400 parties and other events at the Democratic and Republican conventions. Corporations and other special interests will contribute more than $100 million. That can buy a lot of influence. Just a few of the others involved: the Nuclear Energy Institute, Allstate, Wachovia, Union Pacific, ConocoPhillips, Molson-Coors, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Qwest, Target, Staples, SEIU, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle, Nancy Watzman, director of the Sunshine Foundation's interactive Party Time Project, which is monitoring convention activity, noted, 'These are all the same people who have a big lobbying presence in DC, and they all have major issues before Congress and the executive branch.'"

http://www.truthout.org/article/cash-register-conventions



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