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Major companies decline to fund 2016 GOP convention
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/283832-major-companies-pull-sponsorship-of-gop-convention# ^ | 6/16/2016 | Harper Neidig

Posted on 06/17/2016 3:12:03 PM PDT by dirtboy

Several major companies that sponsored the 2012 Republican National Convention will not be sponsoring the event this year in Cleveland, where Donald Trump is expected to be officially nominated as the party’s presidential nominee.

Wells Fargo, UPS, Motorola, JPMorgan Chase, Ford and Walgreens all told Bloomberg they won’t sponsor this year’s convention, despite helping to fund the last GOP summit in 2012. None of the companies commented on whether their decision to pull out was because of the GOP’s divisive presumptive nominee.

Trump routinely lashes out at Ford in his stump speech, blasting the company for moving a factory from the U.S. to Mexico. The car company said it would not support either party’s convention

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1 posted on 06/17/2016 3:12:03 PM PDT by dirtboy
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So, the open-borders globalist crowd aren’t funding the convention, does that really surprise anyone?


2 posted on 06/17/2016 3:13:52 PM PDT by euram
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To: euram

Goody bags for delegates will just be “Slimmer. “
Good thing


3 posted on 06/17/2016 3:15:31 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
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To: euram

I have a Walgreens and a CVS just down the street. Won’t spend another dime at Walgreens now.


4 posted on 06/17/2016 3:15:37 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

Used to be a time when corporations did not subsidize political events in America.

I would not mind going back to those days.


5 posted on 06/17/2016 3:16:36 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Delegates So Far: Trump (1,542); Cruz (559); Rubio (165); Kasich (161)
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To: dirtboy
LOL!
Read the last paragraph

A media of drones and dunces...

6 posted on 06/17/2016 3:17:46 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: SamAdams76

Yeah, all they need is a liquor sponsor and the convention’s good to go.


7 posted on 06/17/2016 3:19:04 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: mrsmith

Hahahaha!


8 posted on 06/17/2016 3:19:32 PM PDT by Voluntaryist
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Corporate America is 100% in the tank for globalism and Islam. facistbook and others are destroying our freedom unless they wake up.

Get off Facistbook for one


9 posted on 06/17/2016 3:24:42 PM PDT by ground_fog
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I hear Chico’s Bail Bonds may have a little extra cash


10 posted on 06/17/2016 3:24:53 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: dsrtsage

Better Call Saul


11 posted on 06/17/2016 3:26:05 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: dirtboy

If I was trump, I would solicit gun manufacturers


12 posted on 06/17/2016 3:26:28 PM PDT by DocRock (And now is the time to fight! Peter Muhlenberg)
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To: mrsmith
Read the last paragraph

Just when you think they can't get more desperate...

13 posted on 06/17/2016 3:26:35 PM PDT by dware (I don't care what bathroom they use, as long as it's in the nuthouse, where they belong)
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To: dirtboy

I believe this is a GOP problem, not a TRUMP problem.


14 posted on 06/17/2016 3:26:43 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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The problem is simple ... we can't earn any return on our investment in the Donald!

15 posted on 06/17/2016 3:27:25 PM PDT by Zakeet (The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter - Churchill)
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To: dirtboy

Those companies are wussies. The democrats must have promised the ceo’s bribes.


16 posted on 06/17/2016 3:28:03 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: dirtboy

This is a net positive for Trump.

Now he can attrack the Democrats for having corporate funding for their convention.


17 posted on 06/17/2016 3:28:19 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: dirtboy

More votes for the Donald.


18 posted on 06/17/2016 3:28:21 PM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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To: dirtboy

Less cronies and less corruption. As Trump said, the gravy train will soon be ending for many.


19 posted on 06/17/2016 3:29:09 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: euram

Trump needs to broadcast this news non stop .

The Globalist elite are attacking me.


20 posted on 06/17/2016 3:38:25 PM PDT by ncalburt
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