DNC delegate uses crowdfunding to pay for convention trip

With primary season winding down, Democrats and Republicans are looking toward their party conventions in Philadelphia and Cleveland.Jeremy Adkison, a Democratic delegate from Emporia, is trying to come up with money to attend.“You could be a donkey and I would vote for you at this point,” he said. “Vote blue, no matter who. That’s what I keep telling people.”The Emporia lawyer said he’s excited about heading to the Democratic convention in July. He's a pledged delegate for Hillary Clinton.“This is my Super Bowl,” he said.It’s a political Super Bowl with Super Bowl prices for flights and lodging. Delegates must pay their own way.“It’s like $650, $800 or $900 a night,” he said.Adkison said he got creative, first finding a cheap place to stay.“I get to stay at an AirBnb with a retired lady named Nancy who has a cat,” he said.He also created a GoFundMe page, estimating his flight and lodging will cost about $800. Since then, he’s raised $400, including $50 from a woman who wrote “Jeremy, I gag that you are going to the Democratic convention.”“I am absolutely looking forward to this,” Adkison said.He’s grateful to the online community that’s sending him to his personal Super Bowl.A quick check on GoFundMe found more than 300 delegates have similar crowdfunding pages.

With primary season winding down, Democrats and Republicans are looking toward their party conventions in Philadelphia and Cleveland.

Jeremy Adkison, a Democratic delegate from Emporia, is trying to come up with money to attend.


“You could be a donkey and I would vote for you at this point,” he said. “Vote blue, no matter who. That’s what I keep telling people.”

The Emporia lawyer said he’s excited about heading to the Democratic convention in July. He's a pledged delegate for Hillary Clinton.

“This is my Super Bowl,” he said.

It’s a political Super Bowl with Super Bowl prices for flights and lodging. Delegates must pay their own way.

“It’s like $650, $800 or $900 a night,” he said.

Adkison said he got creative, first finding a cheap place to stay.

“I get to stay at an AirBnb with a retired lady named Nancy who has a cat,” he said.

He also created a GoFundMe page, estimating his flight and lodging will cost about $800. Since then, he’s raised $400, including $50 from a woman who wrote “Jeremy, I gag that you are going to the Democratic convention.”

“I am absolutely looking forward to this,” Adkison said.

He’s grateful to the online community that’s sending him to his personal Super Bowl.

A quick check on GoFundMe found more than 300 delegates have similar crowdfunding pages.