What Price Democracy?
On Cleveland do the pundits concentrate,
As the nomination equation they calculate.
But what will count at the convention
Is the most important calculation —
What exactly does it cost to buy a delegate?
Tag: Cleveland
Cleveland in Market for Riot Gear to Prepare for GOP Convention
2,000
Number of sets of riot gear Cleveland, Ohio, is seeking to buy, “including riot-control suits and collapsible batons, as part of the city’s latest move to spend a $50 million federal security grant for July’s Republican National Convention,” the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
On to Cleveland!
GOP conventions always begin with lofty plans,
Though usually they wind up in places like Cleveland.
In sports or political chatter,
It’s the outcomes that really matter.
Cleveland may not get LeBron, but will settle for old white Republicans.
