Anti-corporate sentiment doesn't slow down the party scene for lobbyists and lawmakers @ #DNCinPHL
And why would it?
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-democratic-convention-partying-20160728-snap-story.html
Inside the convention hall and on the steamy streets of Philadelphia, an incensed progressive insurgency is protesting the political power of corporations and billionaires but the message doesnt appear to be getting through at the citys A-list eateries and nightclubs.
High-rolling donors, lobbyists and lawmakers have all converged on the city to conduct business as usual, imbibing at private concerts, making deals over canapes, and swapping invites to intimate corporate events at fancy venues. The choices that lawmakers have for partying with lobbyists seem almost limitless, with each dignitary given a dizzying spreadsheet of their options on any given day this week.
The convention in Philadelphia like the Republican event in Cleveland before it is an unabashed display of the coziness between those who write big checks, and those who run, or want to run, the government. It is particularly conspicuous this year in Philadelphia, when lobbyists are betting Democrats will keep control of the White House. Democrats are not even trying to put on the show of restraint they did in their last two conventions, when they imposed a ban, albeit a porous one, on funding from corporations.