If a convention is sponsored by a bunch of corporate or union entities and that results in the party being able to charge considerably less for delegate fees to attend, in other words if it is subsidizing the delegate fee that individual delegates would have to pay...? I had to pay my $1,000 to attend the Conservative Party convention that we had in June. I paid for it personally; nobody subsidized that. That was the cost for all the delegates to ensure that the convention ran and could be paid for by us as individuals. If an entity comes in and sponsors, and that allows a political party to charge $250 as a delegate fee when the true cost divided up among all the members attending would be $1,000, would that be an illegal subsidy that the presenting sponsor was providing to a convention?
On October 4th, 2011. See this statement in context.