Posted on 09/28/2006 7:03:43 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
Baby boomer and former president Bill Clinton is laying plans to celebrate his 60th birthday in grand style with a charitable fundraising extravaganza in New York late next month that will include an invitation-only concert by the Rolling Stones and contributor packages that run to $500,000.00 and higher.
Clinton's daughter, Chelsea is serving as co-host of the three-day party. She will host a Saturday brunch on a weekend that also features a golf tournament at the Bayonne (N.J.) Golf Club, multiple receptions and a dinner at the American Museum of Natural History with the former president, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Chelsea.
The 2,100 invitations began arriving this week. Weekend packages start at $60,000.00 (Hint: $1,000 for every year of Clinton's age). Next is the "Vice Chairman Package," for those who contribute $100,000.00 or raise $250,000.00
Those who pledge $500,000.00 or more will receive the "Birthday Chair Package," which includes the "Backstage Pass" dinner and photo with Clinton and platinum seating at the Saturday dinner and the Stones concert.
The Rolling Stones will perform at the Beacon Theater, an art deco landmark on upper Broadway that seats about 3,000 people.
According to the invitation, the concert will be taped for an upcoming Martin Scorsese movie about the band.
Clinton turned 60 in August but organizers delayed the birthday fundraising event until late October to avoid any complaints from other Democrats that solicitation of money for the former president's foundation would soak up money that could otherwise be used to try to win back the House and Senate in November.
The proceeds will go to the William J. Clinton Foundation, the umbrella organization that oversees the Clinton HIV-AIDS initiative, the Clinton Global Initiative and several other programs launched by the former president since he left office almost six years ago.
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A real "man of the people."
Baby boomer and former president Bill Clinton is laying plans to celebrate his 60th birthday in grand style with a charitable fundraising extravaganza in New York late next month that will include an invitation-only concert by the Rolling Stones and contributor packages that run to $500,000.00 and higher.
Something tells me that Chris Wallace's invitation will be lost in the mail.
I've never seen that. IT'S GREAT !!!
What the hell is wrong with people??
Can you believe the gall of these people???
You would think he is "KING" or something...I do hope with all my might the people of NY vote her OUT of office, she looses the POTUS campaign so we can send them OFF to their own country where they can live like the idiots they are.
The whole thing is ME ME ME...Do we REALLY want another president named klinton?????
The rest of the former Presidents have their birthdays, and do things low keyed, in fact its usually the next day when you hear that Ford, Peanut head, Bush 1 have had a birthday....
I belive the Arkansan term for this is The Flim Flam Man.
Photo layout - People, US, gossip rags
Electronic Media - whole hour on Larry King, Olberman, 20-20, View
Seen it, done it.
If he really cared he'd do it in November.
The fact that it's late Oct. means the money is being put togther now.
So this is, on it's face, a lie.
Happy Birthday to ME! Happy Birthday to ME! Happy Birthday Dear Bubba, Happy Birthday to ME!
OK, I give up. Just how many birthday celebrations does Mr. Clinton plan to have?
Everybody say it with me....
EWWWWW!
Who gets the honor to blow ...
out the candles?
What a bunch of hooey......his birthday is long since over....
I actually prefer the drain on Dem coffers to occur two weeks before the election. Amazingly, Clinton does too.
He may not be the worst president ever, but he's the worst person ever to be president. --George Will
ANOTHER birthday bash??? Good grief...sortof like those "final tours" or "close-out sales" that never end!!!
What's the word I keep thinking of ???
"Charlatan" works too: One who falsely claims to have expert knowledge or skill: quack.
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