We’re not talking about Secret Service protection, or even standard security spending. The U.S. government subsidizes the actual parties, speech coaching, video production, food, confetti, and booze that Republicans and Democrats buy for the multi-day political propaganda-fests known as the national conventions.
Sen. Tom Coburn has written to the chairs of the RNC and DNC asking them to return their federal convention subsidies:
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