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Okla. senator says parties should fund conventions

Associated Press

  May 19, 2012

A Republican senator has asked both political parties to refund the millions of federal dollars each has received to help pay for this summer’s presidential nominating conventions. In a letter to leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties, Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said the two gatherings will be “weeklong parties paid for by taxpayers.’’ He also compared them to recent revelations about a lavish conference the General Services Administration held in Las Vegas.

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