GOP Convention

COMPANIES INCREASINGLY PASS ON SPONSORING TRUMP'S REPUBLICAN NOMINATION CONVENTION

 

By Joe Gandelman

Originally printed in The Moderate Voice, a member of the San Diego Online News Association

June 17, 2016 (San Diego's East County) - It’s almost like a scene in Titanic, where the lucky ones are able to flee the sinking ship and get away on a lifeboat.

Big corporations often jump at the chance to sponsor big conventions. But when the Republican Party holds its convention in Cleveland next month, it’ll be minus some big corporations which don’t want to be stuck with the smell of the party’s presumptive Presidential nominee Donald Trump on their branding. This is a YUGE development, if you follow how conventions work:


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