Conventions rake in business donations.
The support is driven by civic pride or political strategy. The software giant is currently fighting a U.S. Justice Department antitrust lawsuit. And following last month's federal court ruling that found Microsoft is a monopoly, government lawyers are reportedly planning to ask that the company be broken up. Tenet, based in Santa Barbara, Calif., runs 30 hospitals in the Los Angeles area. Obviously, the conventions are also major political events, but if they were in cities where Tenet did not have a major presence you would not see us participating at anywhere near the same level.