RE: 50 million for convention security funds???!!!
I did a quick search on this topic and didn't find anything breaking down the costs line by line. I did find the below article which explains that the actual host cities get the $50 million for anti-terrorism costs and each political party only gets $16 million for their convention. I can guess that the respective cities are ramping up and planning for these conventions and would guess that a huge amount of resources are spent preparing but I don't know all of the specifics on costs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/us/politics/28convention.html?_r=1&fta=y&oref=slogin
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The money raised by the host committees comes on top of $16.3 million each party is given by the federal government to pay for the convention. Each city is also given $50 million in federal anti-terrorism funds for security.
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