[MNJohnnie]

The US government pays for both party's national convention.

No they don't. The partys do. Mainly from Corp donations. Duke Energy mostly paid for the Democrat convention

[martinidon]

The government(taxpayers) contributed about $130 million to both parties for their conventions. Congress needs to zero that out in the future!

[martinidon]

here is a link that details how much both parties stole form the taxpayers!

http://uspolitics.about.com/od/Political-Conventions/a/Taxpayers-On-The-Hook-For-Political-Conventions.htm

[Marcella]

The govn. pays for the convention center for both. They don’t pay for anything held outside the center.

I heard this discussed during the Democrat convention but it wasn’t said by a Democrat official. And there was a discussion of whether or not the federal govn. should continue paying for this.