Posted on 04/13/2010 7:45:31 AM PDT by Zakeet
Pundits can debate the political costs and benefits of Sarah Palin's decision to step down as Alaska governor, but the monetary advantages of leaving her $125,000-a-year public service post are beyond dispute.
Since leaving office at the end of July 2009, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee has brought in at least 100 times her old salary – a haul now estimated at more than $12 million -- through television and book deals and a heavy schedule of speaking appearances worth five and six figures.
That conservative estimate is based on publicly available records and news accounts. The actual number is probably much higher, but is hard to quantify because Palin does not publicize her earnings. She reputedly got a $7 million deal for her first book, with the bulk of that money due after her resignation as governor, and $250,000 per episode, according to the entertainment trade press, for each of eight episodes of a reality show about Alaska for the The Learning Channel. She has managed to keep a lid on reliable figures for her earnings from a multi-year contract with Fox News and a second book deal with HarperCollins.
A Palin aide responding to questions from ABC News said the governor "is now a private citizen. As a result, her fees and earnings are private."
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Funny how disinterested ABC News was when Clinton went from the lowest paid Governor in the country ($35,000. a year) to a bank account of over $130 million.
No problem. What’s shocking is how much money Bill Maher has made, or Sean Penn.
Good work when you can get it.
And I hope she makes another 12 million by this coming July.
Good for her. I applaud.
I hope she makes so much money that she ends up buying cbs, abc and nbc and then burning each of them to the ground.
You betcha.
I thought they treated President Bush badly (and they did!), but it wasn't as brutal and dastardly as how they treated her.
She's got to have a will of iron to still be around.
Someone correct me here, but as understand it, famous, high selling authors like her, get $4 for every book sold. Given that she's sold approx 3 million copies of her book, that'd put the money from her book alone at $12 million, no?
The more the MSM attack, the bigger her following, and thus her earnings get.
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“and he hasn’t even done anything yet, let alone written a book”
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Except for dismantling the entire American economy....
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But then, you’re not one of “us.”
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Even someone of your severely limited cognition should be able to see through that one.
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A little Kaopectate might clear your head...
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Twelve million bucks can keep a person around too. :)
LOL! I didn’t think of it that way. ;*)
Still waiting for you to back up your repeated (and false) claim that Palin gets a million bucks plus for her speeches.
Its not a false claim moron!
We’re still waiting for you to backup your false claim of being human.
$12 million!! Why that’s more than Al Gore! How terrible!
Sure it is a lie...and you know that you have zero proof. That’s why all you can do is insult.
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