Friday, June 8, 2012

Jonathan Bernstein: Time to reconsider subsidizing party conventions

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is pushing again this week to stop public funding for the political party conventions, which this year are scheduled to receive $18.3 million — and that’s excluding security, which everyone agrees that the federal government should cover. Coburn introduced his proposal as a bill at the beginning of the week, but he’s now offering it as an amendment to the farm bill that’s currently on the Senate floor.

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