The DNC Joins Arms with America’s Most Hated Company to Host National Convention

[EV_Ares]

This is not a good thing by any means.

Comcast, which has been named America’s worst company, is an honored guest at this year’s Democratic National Convention.

Philadelphia, which is the home of the cable giant’s headquarters, is also hosting this year’s Democratic National Convention — at the Comcast Spectator’s Wells Fargo Center. And as the New York Post recently reported, the Democratic Party is offering prime access to convention activities and leading elected officials to Comcast executives who donate $100,000 or more.

These so-called “Empire Donors” are given access to members of Congress for photo-ops at the convention podium, slots at VIP dinners, and even tickets to a New York Yankees game with a “special guest.” Progressive advocacy organization Public Citizen told the Post the arrangement reeks of a corrupt, pay-for-play system.

“The company that chips in with $100,000 will have one-on-one access with the presidential candidate and congressional lawmakers as well, and they are buying influence in our government,” Public Citizen spokesman Craig Holman told the Post. “It’s one of the most offensive elements of our campaign process, an embarrassment that doesn’t pass the smell test and has never passed the smell test.”

Link to Article: http://usuncut.com/politics/democratic-national-convention-comcast/

[onehandle]

1. Re-visting 'outrage' from a month ago?

Sad.

[ciaobaby]

4. Revisiting corporate corruption.

It's all so out in the open now because Hillary and Co. promise that just because corporations pay for access, that in no way does means they will get anything out of it.
That's what is truly sad.

[villager]

6. It's not so much that we need to "revisit" corporate corruption, it's that it's ongoing.

to the point where folks here who imagine themselves "progressive" contemptuously dismiss it even being brought up -- since they've grown so familiar with it.

Sad.

[EV_Ares]

14. Exactly right.

[zeemike]

41. And soon criticizing it will get you a hide.

That is how it is made normal...get liberals to defend it...no need to get the GOP to, they invented it.

[HuckleB]

59. Derp.

[zeemike]

104. I suppose that means something but I forgot what.

[HuckleB]

105. That would explain your bizarre paranoia.

[zeemike]

108. It explains my lack of knowledge of the urban dictionary.

But I am sure it can explain anything you want it to explain.

[HuckleB]

109. I doubt that.

Nice spin.

[zeemike]

112. I'm sure you do.

Nothing must get in the way of your opinion.

[HuckleB]

114. My opinion has evidence to support it.

What do you have?

[zeemike]

118. An opinion with evidence to support it.

But that's the thing...yours is golden and mine don't mean shit...to you.

[HuckleB]

119. You would have support something for it to matter.

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[zeemike]

123. For it matter? you lost me there.

But this is a good place to end this.

[HuckleB]

129. It's not hard to lose you.

[zeemike]

130. Well I am mono lingual.

So if it is not English I get lost.

[Hortensis]

63. Gee, I thought you were criticizing Hillary.

So you really think criticizing corporations will get you a hide?

[zeemike]

103. If it is attached to Hillary yes

[Hortensis]

106. Oh, you mean if it's really an attack on her?

Yes. So what? There are tons of forums where the bile runs hip-deep if this place becomes intolerable.

[zeemike]

110. Exactly...any criticism of her is an attack.

And that soon enough will get you banned...and DU will then be a happy place.

[Hortensis]

113. That might be just a little TOO optimistic.

Good thing. Who'd want to hang around a happy political forum?

[HuckleB]

115. Well, that explains it.

[zeemike]

117. People who are afraid of debate.

[HuckleB]

120. What debate?

Did you have something you wanted to debate?

[zeemike]

121. Yes. the use of passive aggressive on a board.

But you would know nothing about it.

[HuckleB]

122. So you can't respond.

Thanks for clarifying.

Have a nice life.

[zeemike]

124. I did, but you did not get it.

But no matter, you have a good one too.

[HuckleB]

128. Umm. No, and no.

[Dustlawyer]

133. Besides, the convention hasn't even happened yet!

How is that so 15 minutes ago? We know the Republicans have done this crap for decades and Democrats used to pride ourselves that we were the Party of the people. Now we have Hillary supporters who act like it's no big deal. That's how you know the corruption has spread when Democratic supporters act like Republican supporters because they are OK with it!

I will NEVER BE OK WITH IT!!!

[azmom]

153. +1

[DemMomma4Sanders]

33. This is so sad, she is the weakest candidate ever.

Im personally going to make it a priority to clear the DNC of dinosaurs after this cycle is complete....after Hillary hands trump the presidency because she can't possibly grab he demographics Obama did, which she needs, to clinch the presidency.

[HuckleB]

116. Fantasy is cool!

[DemMomma4Sanders]

131. Theres nothing fantastic about it, its begun.

Progressive Cornel West is just the beginning. This guy will blow the whistle on any shenanigans he encounters.

ITS ALREADY BEGUN.

The future aint nothin to fear.

[fasttense]

136. I guess BP was busy destroying another whole American region

BP or Monsanto could have been worse but not by much.

[Cassiopeia]

34. If this were about ANY Republican, regardless of stature

you would be outraged yourself.

[pangaia]

43. It has been an outrage for decades.

That is why I would never, ever vote for another corporatist. I have sucked it up and done it too many times.


GO BERNIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stryder]

79. But, but, but,

If you don't, the Devil will be president!
And it will all be your fault.
(They really needed an asshole supreme to get away with it
this time and the GOP came through for them in spectacular fashion.)
Still, I can't say a part of me ain't screaming, "Let it all burn down."

[pangaia]

81. The devil comes in may guises. :>)))

[Stryder]

88. And has the power

to assume a pleasing form.
(Depending on which way the wind blows.)

[840high]

107. me2 never, ever x100

[hueymahl]

145. You may not realize it

but the use of "sad" as a comment is part of the rhetorical style used by Trump in dismissing comments. Not calling you a trump supporter or wanna-be, just pointing out that you may want to modify your style why that bag of orange feces is still in the news.

[roguevalley]

148. Comcast is hrc biggest donor. no surprise there.

[merrily]

2. Benjamins!

[tonyt53]

3. More attacking of the DNC? Yeah, that's worked for Bernie and his followers so far.

[EV_Ares]

15. Are we supposed to not mention the fact of what kind of a company Comcast is or the fact that the

Chairman of the DNC is supporting Payday Loans. Seems to be a rather important issue.

[RoccoR5955]

39. Any mention of anything that goes against the Party

will be treated as TREASON, and you shall be hanged by the toes until dead.
You are not to question ANY of the motives of the Democratic NOT Committee, as they only have the best corporate interests in their concern. You are only to follow them lock step all the way to the convention, to the election, then down the tubes after they lose in November, as they have so many times before.
They fail to run REAL Democrats. If we want RepubliCON lite, we will vote for REAL Republicans. They have given enough away to the banking industry, the healthcare industry, and other industries that donate to their campaigns.

So just follow lock step all the way into the abyss, or get thrown under the bus, as so many have had done to them.

[ChiciB1]

52. SPOT ON... Following The Pied Piper Is Just Soooooooo

IN FASHION THESE DAYS! From Banks, Pharma, Insurance... OMG too many places to list! It's where we're at and UNFORTUNATELY the POWER BROKERS have so many by the short hairs!

Oh, and don't forget about Saudi Arabia... If ANYONE has watched the latest Series of House off Cards might do well to remember the last word they said... FEAR!

Amazing that this fictional TV Show seems so very REAL!! Husband and wife, running for a SECOND term (not there yet with Clintons) and see things unraveling decide to USE FEAR as a means to win!!

OLIGARCHY??? Getting close to MONARCHY! Time to practice how to bow and curtsy, maybe?

[tomg]

66. Spot on RoccoR

From one member of the People's Republic of Rosendale to another.

[Duval]

82. Tough bird turd.

I just answered emails from the DNC and Pelosi, telling them what I think about this election and their handling of it. I, and my husband, have been astounded at their underhanded tricks. And they WILL lose, if Hillary is the nominee.

[PatrynXX]

69. Ignore the bait.

Just Hillary Trolls trying to get a reaction. This isn't the DNC underground. DNC is pretty much dead thanks to DWS. Hoping her opponent can rebuild it.

[elleng]

25. Happy with the status quo, I guess.

MANY are not.

[shireen]

38. I prefer to think of it as changing the DNC

We, the people, should be the ones that influence how they operate, not big corporate sponsors. I think that's something most of us can agree on.

[Gore1FL]

49. I tend to support doing the right thing over supporting labels.

If the DNC does RNC-like things, then, yes, they need to be criticized.

[Chan790]

111. I'm not sure how any Democrat, regardless who they support, isn't outraged by the conduct of the DNC

...on a daily basis. This is the most inept and corrupt political organization I have ever witnessed...you know you're bad when you make Rinse Penis and the RNC look like a professionally-run, ethical organization. DWS doesn't deserve to lose her job because she's partisan...she deserves to lose her job because in-comparison...


she makes this guy looks like a restrained and competent administrator.


...and she makes this guy look ethical.

[billhicks76]

138. Comcast Board Are Republican Activists

They wouldn't even allow MSNBC to be part of the basic cable package for years. Are you even paying attention?

[SammyWinstonJack]

139. SERIOUSLY....

[TDale313]

5. And MSNBC has been bending over backwards to support Hillary.

The whole system is so fucking incestuous it's disgusting.

[onecaliberal]

7. What in the complete fuck are these assholes thinking?

Seriously, and her supporters think this is just fucking fine because WHAT? I really want to know, if there nothing over the god damn line for you people.

[Cassiopeia]

36. I believe Hillary could go on the morning talk shows

and announce that she drowns puppies and kittens for nothing more than joy and some here would celebrate the announcement.

[dorkzilla]

47. Well to be fair, those puppies and kittens *were* asking for free stuff nt

[Cassiopeia]

48. Only the poor kittens and puppies.

I'm sure the 1%er kittens and puppies deserved to be spared and all the free stuff they get.

[Jackilope]

86. Pity kitties and puppies don't throw private $$$$$ donor parties

They deserve to be cast outs and throw aways.

[ToxMarz]

54. If Bernie had gotten enough votes to win the nomination

Comcast would still an honored guest at his nominating convention. Yet this too is Hillary doing. He chose to run as a Democrat.

[Cassiopeia]

64. Yeah, but I trust Bernie to say no to their requests.

Hillary not so much.

[onecaliberal]

97. No because Bernie would have thrown DWS out the door, and SHE is the one who changed the rule to

allow lobbyists to fund the convention, because they have pissed off so many people they didn't have enough money.

[pnwmom]

56. What other facility in Philadelphia would have been a better choice? nt

[Zorra]

96. It's eye opening, and totally heartbreaking, isn't it?

We totally had no idea how bad it really is, did we?

[Blue_Tires]

8. I'd put Verizon and Blue Cross/Blue Shield WAY above them, personally...

[Hortensis]

10. Monsanto. Koch Industries!

[scscholar]

23. I disagree

I live in an area in Seattle that has given Comcast a monopoly, and they don't offer service to their entire monopoly area. That's pretty evil to block competition then refuse to provide service.

[tonyt53]

26. Your gripe isn't with Comcast then, it is with the people that gave them that area.

They can make them do things differently when the contract period ends. This is the same situation that has been going on around the country since cable TV started popping up.

[Gore1FL]

50. It's possibly to have a gripe with both. nt

[Angel Martin]

76. I think some big banks are definitely competitive nt

[larkrake]

9. just confirming the downfall of the DNC

[snooper2]

11. I just double checked our records and you don't have permission to use the HAL avatar

Please cease and desist before further action is taken-

[larkrake]

16. LOL

[bvar22]

35. I'm sorry, Dave.

I can't let you use that avatar.

[brooklynite]

12. I don't want to spoil your outrage...

...but they're holding this at the Wells Fargo arena because that happens to be the arena in town.

...and they're offering those goodies to anyone who can cough up big $$...I'm one of them (I'm in a lower tier, but the base packages are the same). No corporate involvement, no secret requests to whisper in the candidates' ears. Just supporting the Party and enjoying the show.

Yes, we'd all like to have publicly funded elections, but at the moment we don't; how much would you be willing to chip in as an alternative.

[EV_Ares]

17. Good for you, glad you have all that money. As for spoiling my

outrage, don't worry about that & it is not just my outrage.

[bvar22]

42. ...and I understand why you are an avid Hillary supporter.

She will take care of you.

When I was a child, probably 7 or so, my father pointed to the portrait of FDR that hung in our living room, and said to me that I owed him EVERYTHING. Without FDR, the Father of the Modern Democratic Party, I would be the impoverished son of a tenant farmer in NE Texas.

He then said, "Son, if I ever catch you voting for or supporting a Republican, I will make you wish you had never been born....unless you have a $MILLION (1950s) Dollars in the bank...Then, and only then, will I understand."

So, I truly understand why you support Hillary.

[brooklynite]

44. Trump will take BETTER care of me; that's why I'm working so hard to elect Democrats...

[bvar22]

61. LOL.

You really think Trump will take care of YOU?
The only thing Trump will do for you is to try and take whatever you have by hook or crook.
Trump doesn't care about me. I'm a small fish, but (if we can believe what you post) YOU are a juicy Main Course.

[Stryder]

91. Publicly funded. Now there's an idea.

[brooklynite]

92. How much will they be chipping in for the Convention?

[Stryder]

98. Maybe

we could offer ad time like on those roll up banners around sports venues.
I don't mind them buying air time to sponsor an event.
I do however have a problem with them buying "access" (Too kind of a word)
to the candidates themselves. Access that Joe/saphine Public will never have.

[SouthernDemLinda]

152. We will recapture our democracy

truthdig
drilling beneath the headlines
June 7, 2016

Shut Down the Democratic National Convention
Posted on Jun 5, 2016
By Chris Hedges

On July 25, opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Cheri Honkala, leader of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, who was denied a permit to march by city authorities, will rally with thousands of protesters outside City Hall. Defying the police, they will march up Broad Street to the convention.

We will recapture our democracy in the streets of cities such as Philadelphia, not in convention halls such as the aptly named Wells Fargo Center, where the Democratic Party elites intend to celebrate the results of the rigged primary elections and the continuity of corporate power.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, other activists and I will march with Honkala. It is not as if we have a choice. No one invited us into the center or to the lavish corporate-sponsored receptions. No one anointed us to be Clinton superdelegates—a privilege that went to corporate lobbyists, rich people and party hacks. No one in the Democratic establishment gives a damn what we think.

The convention is not our party. It is their party. It costs a lot of money to attend. Donate $100,000 and you become an “empire” donor, with perks such as “VIP credentials for all convention proceedings,” along with tickets to lavish corporate and Party receptions, photo ops with politicians at the convention podium, four rooms at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel and a suite at a Yankees game, where a “special guest” will be present. Short of $100,000? You can become a “gold” donor for $50,000, a “silver” donor for $25,000 or a “bronze” donor for $10,000.

We have the best democracy money can buy. The Wells Fargo Center and the fancy hotels in Philadelphia will be swarming with corporate representatives and lobbyists from Comcast, Xerox, Google and dozens of other companies that manage our political theater.

Honkala, who was once homeless—she lived for a while out of cars, in abandoned houses and under bridges—and who was the Green Party’s vice presidential candidate in 2012, has long defied the elites on behalf of the marginalized and the poor. She led a protest at the 2000 Republican National Convention, (after being denied a permit for that as well), which saw 30,000 people shut down Philadelphia’s center over issues such as racial discrimination, police violence and poverty. She has fought for the homeless, the unemployed and the underemployed for three decades, through acts of civil disobedience —marches, the construction of tent cities and homeless encampments, and sit-ins—that often ended in arrests. She has been arrested more than 200 times.

She will be on the south side of Philadelphia’s City Hall at 3 p.m. on July 25, with or without a permit. And thousands for whom the Democratic Party is another face of the corporate enemy will be there with her.

(Contacts for the march are [phone] or [e-mail].)

“Philadelphia has a poverty rate of 26 percent,” she said when I reached her by phone. “It has the highest number of people who die from drug overdoses in the country. The city has not housed anyone within the homeless population within 10 months. It has lost its state certification for the Department of Human Services child protection agency because of gross negligence and substandard conditions for children. Foster kids are stuck in an abusive system. Hundreds are not being placed. And at the same time, the city will spend $43 million on security for the convention. It will spend upwards of $60 million to house millionaires and billionaires while it ignores the vulnerable and attempts, by denying us a permit to march, to render them invisible.”

She said that the difference between the march she led in 2000 and the one planned for July is that “things are four times worse.” She spoke about her north Philadelphia neighborhood, Kensington, the poorest district in the state. It has one of the highest homicide rates in the nation. It has a large homeless population. It has a poverty rate of 46.9 percent. The food bank is protected by barbed wire.

“Back then, someone could work three or even four jobs and barely survive,” she said. “I live in a neighborhood now of the permanently unemployed. There is an underground economy. We have to collectively keep each other alive. There are hundreds of young men who are not just attempting to live on a dollar a day, but go a couple of weeks with nothing. We try to figure out how to find food and housing. We try to figure out how to keep alive.”

The loss of faith in the political system and neoliberal ideology is widespread. The corporate elites are pouring $5 billion into the carnival of presidential electoral politics in a desperate bid to keep us mesmerized and controlled. Democracy is endlessly invoked on the airwaves to legitimize the corporate and political forces that have destroyed it. Congress has an approval rating of 11 percent. Half of qualified voters are not registered to vote, and half of registered voters do not go to the polls. A little more than half of 25 percent—no more than 15 percent—of the electorate determines who becomes president. And this is the way the elites want it.

In our system of inverted totalitarianism, the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin pointed out, the object is to demobilize the citizenry, to render it apathetic, to convince the citizen that all political activity that does not take place within the narrow boundaries defined by the corporate state is futile. This is a message hammered into public consciousness by the corporate media, which serve as highly paid courtiers to the corporate elites. It is championed by the two parties that offer up fear of the other as their primary political platform.

Shut Down the Democratic National Convention
Posted on Jun 5, 2016
By Chris Hedges
(Page 2)

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton hold the highest candidate disapproval ratings in American history—in that order. These two candidates, the system insists, are the only “rational” options. Step outside the system and you are disappeared or ridiculed. Acceptable political opinions, as Wolin wrote, are “measurable responses to questions predesigned to elicit them.” We vote, in the end, for skillfully manufactured personalities. Neither Trump nor Clinton in office will hinder corporate hegemony. Nothing will change until we revolt, until we defy the corporate system, until we wake from our civic stupor. The goal of the elites is to keep us pacified.

“The crucial element that sets off inverted totalitarianism from Nazism is that while the latter imposed a regime of mobilization upon its citizenry, inverted totalitarianism works to depoliticize its citizens, thus paying a left-handed compliment to the prior experience of democratization,” Wolin wrote in “Politics and Vision.” “Where the Nazis strove to give the masses a sense of collective power and confidence, Kraft durch Freude (or ‘strength through joy’), the inverted regime promotes a sense of weakness, collective futility that culminates in the erosion of the democratic faith, in political apathy and the privatization of the self. Where the Nazis wanted a continuously mobilized society that would support its masters without complaint and enthusiastically vote ‘yes’ at the managed plebiscites, the elite of inverted totalitarianism wants a politically demobilized society that hardly votes at all.”

[Brother Buzz]

13. Juxtaposition, the RNC is holding their Cleveland shindig in...Quicken Loans Arena

[Eleanors38]

21. I can think of a S. Florida "Democrat" bucking for the keynote.

[bvar22]

40. Two sides of the same coin.

When I first heard that expression, I though it was a clever exaggeration.
Now, I know it is true.

[Rex]

18. Comcast is a horrible company, I would be embarrassed to have them at my convention.

However we know why they are there...MONEY.

[EV_Ares]

20. True & they should be embarrassed with having Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the head of

the DNC. Miss Payday Loan herself.

[Eleanors38]

19. Fealty is not enough. One must demonstrate it to all.

[felix_numinous]

22. They are only outing themselves

at this point, it has never been clearer where people stand on the most vital issues, and only strengthen people's resolve.

[Scuba]

24. When money is speech, poverty is silence.

[Trust Buster]

27. It takes money to hold a convention. I don't recall hearing Sanders say that he would chip in to

cover the costs. His supporters live in a make believe world.

[bvar22]

37. I'm sure Sanders would have no trouble finding a proper venue for the Democratic Party Revival.

[Gore1FL]

55. So selling out is the best option because the candidate you don't like won't foot the bill?

Makes total sense...

[Trust Buster]

89. How do you suggest they raise the money ?

[Gore1FL]

126. I am not a convention fundraising expert. I am not a sellout, though, either

If I were tasked to raise money, I work against my espoused values to do so.

[Doctor_J]

28. I wonder if they threatened to pull out if Hillary didn't win the nomination

Their networks have been one long pro Hillary stream for the entire campaign. I'm sure the thought of a Sanders presidency doesn't do much for such a loathsome corporation.

[EV_Ares]

29. Yeah, you are right about that. Also, love how the Hillary supporters justify having a company like

Comcast having such a prominent role at the DNC Convention along with having the head of the DNC who has been fighting for the Payday Loan Companies. That is not what the DNC use to be about. How can they be critical of the RNC when they are as much a part of the corporate elite as they.

Also, they can continue to attack Sanders all they want. He may not be the nominee but he will be a force to be reckoned with & he & his supporters are not going away.

[xmas74]

30. Corporate hq is in Philly.

If the convention had been in KC, for example, the sponsors would be Sprint and AMC. They're hosting a major event and sponsorships are common with events of this level.

[Geronimoe]

46. It is sponsored by corporations

because the DNC can't raise the money on its own. And it can't because it represents corporations and not the people.

[xmas74]

154. That's any large event.

A city fights for the chance to host's large events. They work with business leaders to get the funding to host.
I've worked in catering with event planners. This is common for most events on this scale. It's common for events on a smaller scale.

[mac56]

32. Ouch!

[mac56]

57. Well, yeah!

Anything less is tantamount to treason.

[HuckleB]

58. How does it mean that, in any way, shape or form?

[Bettie]

45. Just shows which "people" the party is for these days

and the answer is not "human people" it is "corporate persons".

[pnwmom]

53. In what other Philadelphia facility should they hold this event? n/t

[EV_Ares]

68. What these conventions have turned into needs to be highlighted & how they are run because these

corporations and their lobbyists see the national nominating conventions as ideal opportunities to buy access and influence with the presidential campaigns, lawmakers, and the party leaders. The conventions constitute a campaign media blitz for the campaigns, and a golden opportunity for lobbyists to extend their lobbying activity off Capitol Hill

On top of that when your DNC Chairman battles for Payday Loan companies, what does that tell you where the DNC priorities are anymore. It makes them no different than the RNC.

[pnwmom]

71. Are you acknowledging that there is no other appropriate Philly venue? nt

[EV_Ares]

72. Absolutely not. The DNC knew what they were doing when they chose this venue way back when.

[pnwmom]

74. What Philly venue should have been chosen instead?

[EV_Ares]

85. Why did it have to be Philly?

[pnwmom]

90. Here's why.

If Democrats were going to object to Philadelphia, they should have done so long ago.

http://time.com/3707016/democratic-convention-philadelphia/

[EV_Ares]

141. Exactly my point, they had plenty of time to figure it all out.

[A Simple Game]

142. Why start there? Why did they chose Philly in the first place? n/t

[Rex]

99. Lincoln Financial Field

For one, so you cannot think of any other? Really?

[pnwmom]

100. That site says it can only handle 5,000 convention attendees.

The Democratic convention will have 50,000.

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2015/02/12/philadelphia-will-host-the-2016-
democratic.html

The Democratic convention will be a huge boon for the city, with thousands of people, media and economic impact expected to come to Philadelphia and the surrounding areas. The DNC anticipates 50,000 attendees, filling up to 80,000 hotel room-nights, based on projections from its 2008 convention in Denver.

http://events.lincolnfinancialfield.com/about/faqs.html

What are the capacity ranges for the rooms inside Lincoln Financial Field?
Lincoln Financial Field is adaptable to accommodate events of all sizes, from as small as five people to as large as 5000.

[Rex]

155. The entire place can hold 70,000 people.

http://events.lincolnfinancialfield.com/eventspaces/index.html

[pnwmom]

157. They can only hold a convention with 5,000. I showed you where they say that.

There is more involved with a convention than there is sitting people down for a game.

It lasts for several days, not several hours, and the people need to be fed and otherwise taken care of. And there need to be adequate meeting rooms for separate meetings that need to take place -- not just a large stadium space.


http://events.lincolnfinancialfield.com/about/faqs.html

What are the capacity ranges for the rooms inside Lincoln Financial Field?

Lincoln Financial Field is adaptable to accommodate events of all sizes, from as small as five people to as large as 5000.

[xmas74]

158. If this was a Facebook post

You'd get a like.

Posters blowing this way out of proportion have never dealt with the logistics of an event of this size. I've worked Big 12 Tournament and American Royal with caterers and I only saw the small side. It was massive. No way an entire city could handle an event if this scale without sponsors.

[pnwmom]

159. Thank you. You're right. Handling a several day convention is nothing like handling

a several hour football game. It isn't just about having a large seating capacity in a stadium.

[xmas74]

160. It's about transportation and hotels and

Restaurants and shopping. Entertainment and arts.

The logistics are massive.

[pnwmom]

161. It's like a separate little city just flew in, but only for a few days.

I can imagine what a massive impact that would have.

[xmas74]

163. When I've worked events I've told my kid

I'd see her in a week. She stays with family because I'm not home. It's chaotic, dirty, loud,exhausting-and sometimes worth it. I've paid off debt, paid ahead on bills and given my kid something I couldn't afford otherwise.

The people working the event don't care who sponsors. They see this as the first job in months, a second job to pay down debt, a job to buy school supplies and clothes or even Christmas. Teens will have opportunity to work.

It's good for the city.

[jalan48]

62. It's the "New" Democratic Party brought to you by..'fill in the blank'.

What's good for multinational corporations is good for the Democratic Party.

[L. Coyote]

65. I know a domain where Dem bashing is welcomed. Freeperville.

Take this stuff over there and you'll get more sympathy. :elephant tears:

[SouthernDemLinda]

165. Even if criticism is the same as stating what the problem is....

You don't have a point, not even and idiotic one.

Free speech is one of our most fundamental rights in a democracy. It means the freedom to criticize without fear of reprisal. Of course, something that is totally corrupt can't stand most criticism, so they try to silence critics, institute thought control and censorship.

Our right to speak out against any kind of corruption is what freedom of speech is about. It is more important than someone getting their toes stepped on and should be protected above anything else.

[SDJay]

67. Before Long Elections

will be sponsored as well.

"IT'S THE ELECTION OF 2024! BROUGHT TO YOU BY BUDWEISER, THE KING OF BEERS!"

Incidentally, that gawd-awful 'beer' that is Budweiser is changing its name to "America" for the summer. That's right - America. I think if I were the CEO of some other swill beer like Miller Lite I'd change it to "Jesus Christ" just to see what happens.

Don't think we're THAT far off from this whole democracy thing slipping just a bit further into the realm of total and open farce.

[JDPriestly]

70. Comcast is the enemy of net neutrality. Hope you enjoy the internet after Hillary has done away

with net neutrality.

How do Hillary supporters propose to save net neutrality now that Comcast has nearly bought the Democratic Party?

[EV_Ares]

73. Good point.

[riderinthestorm]

93. Yup nt

[A Simple Game]

144. Well just what do you expect? Of course they want Comcast to host the party. After all

they did offer to provide the next Presumptive President a private email server at any undisclosed location of her choice.

Now there's an offer nobody could refuse.

[CharlotteVale]

75. Well, that's who the Democratic party represents now. So it's fitting.

[Lee-Lee]

77. Like they did when the Convention was here in NC.

When the DNC was here in Charlotte they financed it with a massive "loan" from Duke Energy, our states worst polluter.

And when the loan came due the DNC defaulted and Duke quietly wrote it off as a bad debt- because it was never really a loan but by calling it that they could say it wasn't a corporate "donation" before the convention and it let Duke get a bigger tax break because they got to write off a massive political donation as a bad debt.

Remember how they were billing the 2012 convention as "corporate money free"? Yeah, that was a lie made possible by them calling the millions from Duke a "loan" that they knew, wink wink, wouldn't be paid back.

http://m.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/democratic-convention-corporate-money-duke-energy-loan

[Duval]

87. That's true.

[Gman]

78. If you don't like it you should go find another party to associate with

Apparently the Democratic Party is not for you. There's lots out there to choose from. Go on, now.

[SouthernDemLinda]

166. spoken like the "we're tak'n over"......

Mess with me, and you mess with the whole trailer park.

[actslikeacarrot]

80. I thought EA was the most hated company? N/t

[tirebiter]

83. Has Public Citizen or Craig Holman offered to foot the bill?

C'mon pony up. Local workers gotta get paid. Better from deep pockets.

[jtuck004]

84. Oh, please. It's their constituency. The ones who still have enough money for cable from the

absolute masters of disgusting service. Down and dirty with comcast and the dnc.


I think I will eat. Pigs in a Blanket.

[Vote2016]

94. Why must the DNC suck so much?

[pnwmom]

95. Why does this writer lie so blatantly? Why should we give him any credence

when he says stuff like this:

"Given that the 2016 Democratic nomination will likely come down to superdelegate ballots, this means corporate lobbyists will be among those casting the final ballots."


Hillary will have the majority of PLEDGED delegates by tomorrow -- 2026 pledged delegates, based on the millions of diverse voters who voted for her across the country.

The supers will be the icing on the cake. Her win won't hinge on the super-delegates.

Bernie is the only candidate whose path has become impossible unless he manages to flip hundreds of supers over to his side.

[stopbush]

101. And yet Sanders still intends to attend the convention

even though he knows full well about Comcast's involvement.

[warrprayer]

102. Perfectly nauseating

Goodbye First Amendment.

[ananda]

125. Bad.

Really bad.

I won't be watching.

[shenmue]

127. US Uncut, the Bern supporters' site

Nice try.

[avaistheone1]

132. Figures!

[George II]

134. Have you looked at the sponsors of the arenas where Sanders has held rallies, or...

...the vendors that Sanders used throughout the campaign?

[SouthernDemLinda]

156. Have you looked at Sanders rallies?

Watch 'A Future to Believe In' Rally:
www.truthdig.com/.../bernie_sanders_draws_thousands_at_a_fu...

truthdigdrilling
beneath the headlines

Posted on May 24, 2016
By Emma Niles

A Crowd of Thousands at Bernie Sanders' 'A Future to Believe In' Rally

Thousands turned out to see the Democratic presidential candidate speak at Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, Calif. Truthdig columnist Bill Blum attended the event and captured photos and videos.

He spent over an hour discussing climate change, campaign finance reform, health care, education and the current political atmosphere.

The California primary is only eight days away, and Bernie Sanders isn’t slowing down.
If anything, the 74-year-old Vermont Senator is picking up the pace as he tours California this week, stopping at as many as three cities a day for rallies and events.

On Monday night, Sanders held a rally on the football field of Santa Monica High School in Santa Monica, Calif. The Sanders campaign estimated a turnout of 10,000 people—and the numbers may have swelled to more than that, considering the vast numbers of people who turned up but couldn’t fit inside the football field. Sanders told ABC News that he hopes to speak with “200,000 Californians at rallies statewide.”

[George II]

162. A 0.52 second Google got me this:

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/bernie-sanders-rallies-thousands-at-seattles-keyarena/

Bernie Sanders rallies thousands at Seattle’s KeyArena

KeyArena is named for Cleveland-based KeyCorp, the parent of KeyBank - BIG BANK.

WALL STREET! KeyCorp - NYSE: KEY !!!!!

No need for me to go much further. KeyArena is the Seattle equivalent of the Philadelphia Comcast Center, both named for large corporations.

[SouthernDemLinda]

167. I dunno?

KeyArena (formerly Washington State Pavilion, Washington State Coliseum and Seattle Center Coliseum) is a multi-purpose arena in Seattle, Washington.

KeyArena was the first publicly financed arena in the area to be fully supported by earned income from the building.
Following the 2008 settlement with the SuperSonics after relocation to Oklahoma City, KeyArena finances were bolstered for several years by a settlement fund but the current level of activity and revenue leaves little reserve beyond basic building.

In 2008, AEG Facilities entered into a partnership with the City of Seattle that called for the Los Angeles-based international sports, entertainment and venue organization to provide support services, including event programming, sponsorship and premium seating sales, mareketing and advertising . AEG Facilities operates KeyArena for the city.

[valerief]

135. No surprise, given M$NBCComcast's deep dive into conservaspin. nt

[librechik]

137. Huh, usually they have to dance with the Re-Pukkke-licans

because Republicans own all the big broadcast/all venues in any given city. Glad to know there's something else to be outraged about

[modestybl]

140. HRC is TIED with the worst candidate the GOP has produced...

... maybe going the corporate whore route may not be a great long-term strategy for the Dems...

[malthaussen]

143. I'm outraged that visitors to Philly should be given Yankees tickets. n/t

[TonyPDX]

146. Say goodbye to Net Neutrality. n/t

[Nitram]

147. I thought Monsanto was "America's Most Hated Company"

[OnDoutside]

164. It is, but it doesn't fit the "Hate the DNC" narrative in this particular bile-fest.

[Nitram]

171. BINGO!

[Herman4747]

149. Monsanto is much worst than Comcast. n/t

[Initech]

150. Anyone have some butter? I'm out.

[apcalc]

151. I think Monsanto is hated

Way more than Comcast.

[SouthernDemLinda]

168. That just hit my upchuck reflex!

Where to begin? Oh well, I guess being an asshole does make some people successful.

[Quantess]

169. Monsanto strikes me as leaning GOP (no text)

[Recursion]

170. Monsanto's concerns are the Farm Bill, IP, and GMO regulations

The Farm Bill is a famously (notoriously) bipartisan boondoggle (though it at least includes SNAP). Intellectual property is at least notionally "our" wheelhouse rather than the GOP's. GMO regulations neither national party cares much about but both have to occasionally throw a (organic) bone to the 20% or so of their base who are convinced these things are the First Horseman.

Anyways, point is they have things they like and dislike about both national parties.