Send to KindleTIME’s video team brings you two Wednesday features: First, A short highlight of last night’s speeches and preview of what the politicos will be slavering over this evening:
Second, our Delegates of the Day: two men from Wyoming who agree on wearing cowboy hats, but not on who should be President.
As you watch the republicans kick the crap out of the federal government they want to run tonight. Remember this every time you hear them claim they did something on their own.
..
The convention site, the Tampa Bay Times Forum, is a publicly financed and publicly owned venue. It was built in 1996 by the Tampa Bay Sports Authority, a public agency created to develop major sports attractions in the city. The project was majority financed using $80 million in city and county bonds, backed in part by taxes. To this day, the Forum is actually owned by Hillsborough County, and leased back to the Authority.
..
Both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions are directly financed, in part, by taxpayer money. The Presidential Election Campaign Fund gave public grants of $18,248,300 to each convention, according to the Federal Election Commission.
..
The city of Tampa Bay undertook a wide variety of public projects—financed by federal and local dollars—to prepare the area for convention-goers. The city paid for $2.7 million in beautification projects and infrastructure upgrades to get ready for the RNC, which improved highways, planted trees, and redesigned signage. The city has also received $11 million from the federal government to complete The Riverwalk, a two-mile greenspace near the Forum and utilized by many RNC attendees.
..
The federal government also doled out a $50 million grant to provide security for the RNC, which is being used to pay police overtime and enhance equipment..http://www.thenation.com/blog/169623/...
.
.Total about $100 million for the arena costs and area improvement projects—each delegate would have to kick in $43,745 in order to accurately say “We Built It.” Checks can be made payable to the City of Tampa Bay and the U.S. Treasury.
.
It’s too bad Katy didn’t feature that delegate who tossed peanuts at the CNN camerawoman as Delegate of the Day. Your GOP hard at work.
Anyone else think that, if these two were NOT delegates, or if they had been replaced promptly, that little piece of information would have been already released?
This is going to remain as an "open sore" until, like a certain someone's tax returns, it gets replaced in the new cycle by something even more outrageous, or they do something concrete to resolve the situation.
Ann Romney and Chris Christie were both absolutely fantastic.
Obama is toast in November.
I'm sure the two "neanderthals" who threw peanuts at the CNN camerawoman would agree with you.
Your "convention" now has a new face on it... one I'm sure you'd rather not have.
Poor 73x keeps repeating the same mantra over and over at many swamp posts. Alas for him, said repetition won't make it true as the clock ticks closer to Romney's defeat, tick, tick, tick....
He's not talking about those two things at the end of your legs, 3x, in case you were in doubt.
