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Republican Convention Official Partners
Sep 03, 2008, 9:00 am
The following is a selection of official sponsors and vendors to the Republican National Convention:
- Vlasic Pickles: This official provider of pickles ensures that if a Republican wants a pickle at anytime during the convention, he or she can get a pickle.
- Halliburton: Just handing out pens. That's all. Just providing some nice pens to some nice people.
- Chili's Restaurant: Proud sponsor of good times, great friends, and bill H.R. 2358, which affords law enforcement agencies the right to detain terror suspects without access to an attorney for up to three months.
- Smith & Wesson: Supplying handguns to each delegate upon entering the Xcel Energy Center.
- Prodigy: Official Internet Service Provider.
- Earl "Soupy" McGill: Official homeless penis-exposer outside the RNC venue.
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