Asbury Park Press: Jackson: Many Set to Pick Up Convention Delegates' Tabs
“The conventions are likely a political party’s single largest public gathering of local, state and federal elected officials and party leaders,” the Campaign Legal Center, which advocates for tougher limits on money in politics, wrote in a report last week.
“This makes the conventions not only the place for party business to be conducted and a nominee for president to be elected, but also the place to be for corporations, lobbyists, special interests and others wanting to make friends with, and influence, present and future elected leaders at all levels of government.”