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  1. Texas-sized lobbyist bundler shuns Democrats' super PACs

    By Keenan Steiner Sep 7, 2012 7:41 a.m.

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Democratic super PACs and other outside political groups will be deprived of the party's most generous 2010 bankroller this election: Donor and bundler extraordinaire Ben Barnes is repudiating the outfits that don't provide full financial disclosure.

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  2. First lady courts LGBT donors over lunch

    By Keenan Steiner Sep 5, 2012 10 p.m.

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After a rousing convention speech Tuesday night that, among other things, commended LGBT Americans for their courage to marry, Michelle Obama spent about an hour Wednesday at a downtown Charlotte Marriott courting well-heeled gay donors.

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  3. At Democratic super PACs briefing, strategists ask for more cash

    By Keenan Steiner Sep 4, 2012 10:19 p.m.

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- If there were millionaires at Tuesday's happy hour for prospective donors of the three major super PACs backing congressional Democrats and President Obama, they were not the recognizable backers of the groups. And there was not much exclusive about the affair.

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  4. Group of Democratic governors stand out among party-planners in Charlotte

    By Keenan Steiner Sep 4, 2012 9:39 a.m.

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It’s hard to get the nation's 20 Democratic governors in one place. But that didn't stop party organizers from trying with a swanky, '70s-themed event here Monday night, complete with women in go-go outfits dancing on tables and an ABBA cover band at a two-story downtown club.

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  5. Access denied: Koch funded group bars Sunlight in Tampa

    By Keenan Steiner Aug 30, 2012 9:40 p.m.

    It was billed as a free Republican National Convention event that nonprofit group Americans for Prosperity was holding to honor two of its big funders, conservative billionaire David Koch and North Carolina businessman and political donor Art Pope. But when Sunlight tried to join the party on Thursday afternoon, the door was closed to us.

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  6. Protesters evicted at Republican convention event

    By Keenan Steiner Aug 30, 2012 11:47 a.m.

    “What have I done to be kicked off the property?” retired teacher Karen Saal asked a security guard outside the Crowne Plaza Tampa Westshore Hotel. The guard's answer: the hotel manager specifically asked that she go. And she wasn't alone. Officials were also ushering peace activists off the hotel property after they interrupted a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) honoring pro-Israel members of Congress during the Republican National Convention.

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  7. The three-tiered pyramid convention

    By Keenan Steiner Aug 29, 2012 1:36 p.m.

    (CORRECTION: This post has been updated to reflect a the correct time for today's YG Network event)

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  8. Taxpayers paying for convention observers

    By Keenan Steiner Aug 28, 2012 3:52 p.m.

    TAMPA -- Not everyone can afford to go to Tampa—but taxpayers are footing the bill for some executive branch officials: the members of the Federal Election Commission.

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  9. Did AT&T rent out sprawling eatery to influence lawmakers all week?

    By Keenan Steiner Aug 27, 2012 3:34 p.m.

    TAMPA -- When Tampa Bay Online reported a few weeks back that a lobbyist rented out a sprawling, upscale restaurant for the whole week of the Republican National Convention, they provided a host of details about the restaurant, the big tabs that the GOP high rollers would run up there from early breakfasts to late hour sessions, even the fact that the lobbyist had run the same kind of insiders dining club at the last three Republican conventions. But they were unable to find out the lobbyist's name, or who he worked for.

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