Corporate-sponsored pro sports-style skyboxes (if this were the RNC, we’d be talking Jack Abramoff, wouldn’t we?) are just the most obvious problem. Related to that is WHO some of the sponsors are:
He'll be in good company. Xcel Energy, Pfizer and Molson Coors, which each have given more than $1 million, will be among scores of deep-pocket donors with their own private luxury suites.
Coors, as in the Joe Coors who is probably the most prolific funder of right-wing think tanks, etc., west of Richard Mellon Scaife?
Xcel, as in an electric utility relying primarily on a fossil fuel, and operator of the controversial Prairie Island nuclear power plant? Xcel, as in sponsor of Xcel Energy Center in the Twin Cities, where the Repubs will meet in a week?
Outside the convention, the city of Denver (led by Democratic mayor John Hickenlooper) has “Denver 2008” banners sponsored by other big biz, such as Big Pharma’s AstraZenica?
Make me barf.
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