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Several major companies revealed this week they will be dropping their sponsorship of next months Republican National Convention in Cleveland, where Donald Trump is expected to be officially nominated as the partys presidential candidate.
Wells Fargo, UPS, Motorola, JPMorgan Chase, Ford and Walgreens all told Bloomberg they wont sponsor this years convention, despite helping to fund the last GOP summit in 2012.
None of the companies commented on whether their decision to pull out was because of the GOPs divisive presumptive nominee.
Trump routinely lashes out at Ford in his stump speech, blasting the company for moving a factory from the U.S. to Mexico. The car company said it would not support either partys convention.
A source told Bloomberg that Wells Fargo still plans on sponsoring the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, speculating that the move is due to the bank's large market-share in the East Coast city, but not in Cleveland.
JPMorgan, Walgreens, UPS and Motorola will not sponsor either partys convention.
A source familiar with the convention's fundraising told The Hill on Thursday that the companies had never planned on sponsoring the convention, and that the Bloomberg report was based on information from a year ago.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)under a tent. They can't afford a real building.
Either way, it's going to be the biggest joke of the century.
rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)and Mexico will pay for it.
Right?
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)What a friggin joke the GOP has become.
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maindawg
(1,151 posts)Why didn't they pull their sponsorship after the Rethugs crashed the entire world economy? Tortured innocent people to death and lied about it pissed away trillions on it and denied. It? I guess all that was totally forgivable.
Scientific
(314 posts)...the pocketbook.
Maybe if the Republicans lose enough money they will finally decide to try, for once, a little honesty, integrity or honor? They might actually try doing something for America, instead of for their own plush posteriors.
Maybe. But not very likely
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Only thing is that they can't scream as loud as Stumpy/
classykaren
(769 posts)lastlib
(23,248 posts)When even the corporations desert the GOP, you KNOW it's gotta be toxic. Maybe we need to call in the EPA before the GOPee leeches into the groundwater.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Meanwhile:
Meanwhile, the media claimed it was neck and neck.