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Barack Obama campaign soliciting 'soft money' for convention: The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has decried the practice and vowed to reform convention funding, but the Denver Host Committee was facing a budget shortfall. (Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten, 8/16/08, Los Angeles Times)

Facing a large deficit in the Democratic National Convention budget, officials from Barack Obama's campaign have begun personally soliciting labor unions and others for contributions of up to $1 million. In exchange, donors could get stadium skyboxes for Obama's acceptance speech and other perks.

Obama has regularly criticized politicians seeking large donations outside the framework of campaign finance regulations -- so-called soft money -- while touting the virtues of relying on small donations.

And here we all thought he could turn water into cash....

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 16, 2008 10:46 AM