The Associated Press reports that "the Secret Service has asked for an extra $9.5 million to cover unexpected costs of protecting the presidential candidates during what has turned into a historic year for the agency’s campaign security job."According to the AP story, the service already had anticipated a strain on its pocketbook, budgeting $106.65 million for the 2008 campaign cycle, up from $73.3 million in 2004 (at the time, a record).
What the service didn't expect was an unusual amount of campaign-related travel by Barack Obama and John McCain outside U.S. boundaries.
Also incurring additional costs for the Secret Service, the AP noted, is Obama's decision "to accept the Democratic nomination at Denver’s Invesco Field at Mile High -- an open-air, 76,000-seat stadium -- instead of the 20,000-seat Pepsi Center, which is the site of the party’s national convention."
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the people can be sure it's them who pay the bill for the useless showy antics of those corrupt illegal candidates imposed on them. and why would anyone running for office as a free man in a free country have a security staff much like people commanding criminal organizations, or paranoiac 'leaders' of dictatorships? how can anyone expect someone to represent the people's interests, their rights and principles in office, when they're completely removed from them, and out of touch with their reality? it is in the interests of the people to have a small and accountable goverment, that serves its interests, instead of foolishly abusing their office to pursue their own agenda to increase their own power, and to seek to profiteer at the expense of the freedom, well-being and prosperity of the people, and the sovereignty of their country.
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