Posted on 07/13/2016 7:10:32 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
When former presidents and other dignitaries traveled to California to wax nostalgic on the speaking circuit, they may have been demanding, but none insisted on being flown from San Francisco by private jet to a venue just 70 miles down the freeway.
That was before Bill Clinton came along.
Clinton changed the rules of political speech-making for cash. He would push not just corporate hosts but also nonprofits and universities to pay fees well beyond what they were accustomed to. His aides would turn what had been a freewheeling format into tightly scripted events where every question from the audience was screened. He and Hillary Clinton would become so skilled at churning profits out of their lectures that they would net more than $150 million from speaking alone after he left the White House.
Inside the negotiations to secure a Bill Clinton speaking engagement: Bartering, bickering and outsize expense reports
Contracts and internal emails connected to half a dozen speeches Clinton gave in the Bay Area soon after departing the White House offer a glimpse into the unusual demands and outsize expense reports associated with bringing him to town. The events took place as part of a speaker series sponsored by the Foothill Deanza Community College District, another by UC Davis and another run by a for-profit firm. The documents became public through an open-records request filed by the Republican National Committee amid a presidential race in which the lucrative speaking fees paid to the Clintons are being closely examined.
They show a former president who deftly avoided discussing past scandals by refusing questions that were not screened by his staff in advance. There is the nearly $1,400 bill for a days worth of phone calls from San Franciscos Fairmont Hotel and the $700 dinner for two.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
My thoughts also.
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Bills honoraria increased dramatically. He pocketed some $50 million during Hillary's four-year term as Secretary of State....including an Irish scholarship fund, a Korean conglomerate, and, a Nigerian newspaper company......each of whom paid Clinton more than half a million dollars for a single speech.
REALITY CHECK: The Foundation tells the press the impeached Bill was such a "beloved president" that people wanted to hear what he had to say. That being the reason why countries paid him so much to speak.
But not many people could speak or understand English in far-off Nigeria, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Russia, places where the beloved impeached president pocketed big bucks for speeches.......word is they paid people to sit in the seats pretending they were listening to the "beloved impeached president."
The Big Mac thing was probably a ruse to draw the backing of the American people who like Big Macs.
They want these out of the way early so they can call them “old news”.
The American people don’t like millionaires unless they are Clinton-style Democrats.
The American people are blind to official corruption because many are so corrupt themselves.
Who? - Billious Clinton, apparently.
Who did he have dinner with? I’ll bet it wasn’t the Witch.
:: There is the nearly $1,400 bill for a days worth of phone calls from San Franciscos Fairmont Hotel ::
Really?
In the age of Cell-Phones, who uses the Hotel Landline for ANY phone calls?
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was he calling escort services?
All that money and they are both nothing more than trailer trash. Granted, high-dollar trailer trash that proves the saying you can take the trash out the trailer park but you can’t take the trailer park out the trash.
For $700 I assume that Bill’s dinner companion ate more than just dinner.
How can a dinner for two come to that much money? Am I out of it that much?
No one can ‘out tacky’ the Clintons... they define the concept of white trash...
There is a private club inside Disneyland. i think it’s called 33. You pay 30-40 thousand a year to join. Some people pay 10-14 thousand for dinner for four and have liquor bills in the low 4 figures. Don’t know what they are eating, but I like a breakfast burrito at Mickey D’s.
Factor in that Slick is a “vegan”, those organic brussel sprouts must be made of .......
Mind-boggling.
Oh, I am sure he’s a vegan. Claims to be, but who knows?
Note that the LA Times shows NO interest in who the “dinner for two” was for...
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