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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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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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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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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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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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Super PAC profile: Revolution PAC launches NH ad campaign touting Ron Paul's 'compassion' toward interracial couple
By Ryan Sibley Jan 5, 2012 1:04 p.m.
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Sunlight Live to cover Rick Perry's debate debut in California
By Tessa Muggeridge Sep 1, 2011 12:37 p.m.With a new face officially in the mix, eight Republican candidates will take the stage again next week to spar about the economy, jobs, budget deficit and more at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library in Simi Valley, Calif.
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