GOP: NYC good enough to exploit, but not good enough for their money

[JHB]

From Newsday:

GOP not spending here yet
BY GLENN THRUSH
Staff Writer

May 12, 2004, 11:13 PM EDT


The Republican convention could pump millions into the city this summer, but so far much of the cash for planning the event is going to consultants and businesses in Virginia, Tennessee and California.

The convention's Committee on Arrangements also has made payments to a Baltimore printing company, a Dallas Internet firm and numerous Washington D.C.-area GOP operatives, according to Federal Election Commission filings reviewed by Newsday.

The biggest single payment, more than a quarter-million dollars, went to a California-based theatrical impresario who learned how to choreograph a convention by producing performances by the Radio City Rockettes.
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And local Democrats say the GOP itself needs to pitch in more of its cash, especially with the Bush administration committed to picking up only a third of the event's estimated $76 million security tab.
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http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/manhattan/nyc-gop0513,0,5579848.story?coll=nyc-moreny-headlines

[ithacan]

1. screw them!

I think NYC should disinvite them. Kick their sorry asses back down to Texas where they belong!!

[Trailrider1951]

2. Noooooo, we don't want them!

I say give them a one-way ticket to Iraq. :mad:

[sweetladybug]

4. Trailrider that sounds like a very good idea . that way he is

completely out of our country and he can show everyone what a
chickensh-t he really is.
ELECT KERRY 2004!!!!

[JHB]

5. I second the motion!

If the GOP wants to showcase their "success", let them hold the convention in Fallujah.

[sweetladybug]

3. yes New yorkers disinvite him. Tell him to take his money and

shove it up his butt and take it back to Crawford TX
ELECT KERRY 2004!!!!