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In reply to the discussion: Occupy Wall Street Banned From Democratic National Convention [View all]Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)You said "The DNC could have set any conditions it wanted, including how to treat the OWS demonstrators."
I clearly proved that the agreements and contracts and negotiations to bring the DNC to Charlotte (made well more than a year ago) could not have incorporated anything to do with OW since OW didn't exists at the time the decision to take the DNC to Charlotte. You have failed to prove otherwise.
Once the convention is set, the magnitue and negotiated costs for hotel, meals, convention space, meeting rooms and fees etc are almost impossible to reconsider and move to another City. DNC has no ability to renegotiate the contract and start adding OW anything....it's the city that has the DNC by the short hairs...not the other way around. DNC cannot negotiate diddly squat at this late date with the City of Charlotte.
Facts are just not in you favor on this....and we can all participate in conjecture. It makes that a little more than tin foil hat conspiracies.
I work in local gov't and tend to understand the workings of the administrative part of it....your lecture falls flat.