Obama May Move Convention Speech to Bank of America Stadium
January 11, 2012 at 11:32 AM Leave a comment
President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is considering moving the final day of the Democratic National Convention to Bank of America Stadium to sell more skyboxes to wealthy donors, three Democrats involved in the fundraising told Bloomberg News.
The 74,000-seat home of the Carolina Panthers also would have room for the convention to sell more floor passes close to the stage. Planners are struggling to meet a $36.6 million fundraising goal, according to the Democrats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter.
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Obama advisers are aware of the political downside of the president delivering his nationally televised acceptance in a stadium named for a bank that considered imposing a fee that he said would have “mistreated” customers, sources told Bloomberg. That would be outweighed, they said, by the chance to lure more big-dollar contributors to cover the convention’s costs.
Thanks to Citizens United and the activist Republican judges on the Supreme Court, here we are America.
Entry filed under: 2012 Election, President Barack H. Obama and Co.. Tags: bank of america, barack obama, citizens united.
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