A college balks at Hillary Clinton's fee, so books Chelsea for $65000 instead

Washington Post ^ | Washington Post | Philip Rucker and Rosalind S. Helderman

[SJackson]

Chelsea Clinton, left, answered questions posed by former Kansas City mayor Kay Barnes during a paid appearance last year at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. (David Eulitt/The Kansas City Star)

When the University of Missouri at Kansas City was looking for a celebrity speaker to headline its gala luncheon marking the opening of a women’s hall of fame, one name came to mind: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But when the former secretary of state’s representatives quoted a fee of $275,000, officials at the public university balked. “Yikes!” one e-mailed another.

So the school turned to the next best option: her daughter, Chelsea.

The university paid $65,000 for Chelsea Clinton’s brief appearance Feb. 24, 2014, a demonstration of the celebrity appeal and marketability that the former and possibly second-time first daughter employs on behalf of her mother’s presidential campaign and family’s global charitable empire.

More than 500 pages of e-mails, contracts and other internal documents obtained by The Washington Post from the university under Missouri public record laws detail the school’s long courtship of the Clintons.

They also show the meticulous efforts by Chelsea Clinton’s image-makers to exert tight control over the visit, ranging from close editing of marketing materials and the introductory remarks of a high school student to limits on the amount of time she spent on campus.

[Busko]

The political whores at work, under bidding Mom to get money in her pocket, Same crap different angle.

[saintgermaine]

Just in case anyone is wondering why this country is in the shape it is in here is you explanation. Anyone paying this young, dumb and greedy dimwit 65 K surely must be mentally challenged, unless of course they are so flush with money (and they probably are) that they are trying to get rid of it and spend it on anything what the cat may drag in.

[hal ogen]

I’d pay to see this criminal grifter family give one speech: to the court as they are led away in shackles to a Fed SuperMax for their many, many crimes. One can dream. May Justice find them.

[Chode]

guess that's the only one the silly cow can remember then, or it's delusions of grandeur