Posted on 12/08/2018 7:30:49 PM PST by familyop
Former President Bill Clinton and failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are taking desperate measures to boost sagging ticket sales for their 13-city speaking tour, selling them at half price on Groupon...Although seats for the tour are still available on the official site for as much as $325, Groupon is offering tickets for the event in Los Angeles as low as $35.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
If somebody in a Rolls Royce pulled up next to my old pickup to ask for some Groupon, The Little Dog would probably come flying out from the back and sail through their open window, eat all their sammiches, then jump back into the pickup to ask me for a beer to wash down the sammiches.
That’s why I don’t carry beer in the pickup.
The stinking little booze hound would drink it all up and then stand with his front paws on the tailgate singing “Carolina Moon” or “Le Boulin”.
I always keep a jar handy. ‘Cuz ya never know when.....
I call it the “Watusi”
You’re a better man than I, Gunga Din.....er.....Gunga Ferris.
The Clintons’ fixation with public life is well beyond the pathology stage. They have enough wealth to slink off into the sunset, but nooo....
Oh.....you speak Swahili......well.....
Jambo!
That’s all I remember from my high school Swahili class.
I believe that means,
“Don’t look now, but I believe there’s a hyena in your shorts.”
Thank you. Never leave home without a wide array of condiments.
BTW, dinner tonight at Chik-fil-A. A rare treat.
The chicken, leaf lettuce, tomato, cheese, bacon on multigrain bun.
AND some chicken tenders with wing sauce. Yummy.
Silly me, I thought, knowing how the Clintons conduct themselves that poop on was involved.
You folks are awfully hard on The leading lecher and the dear old battleaxxhhhaa, lady. Remember back when they were somebody they were azzholes and crooks. Jeez, ya know how hard it is to say something nice? I know what mom said but it’s tough./s
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CIRCA 2014--WASH/PO By Rosalind S. Helderman and Philip Rucker
Plans for UCLA visit give rare glimpse into Hillary Clinton’s paid speaking career. She was paid $300,000 to speak to UCLA students and faculty in March 201. When officials at the University of California at Los Angeles began negotiating a $300,000 speech appearance by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the school had one request:
Could we get a reduced rate for public universities? The answer from Clinton’s representatives: $300,000 is the “special university rate.”
That e-mail exchange and other internal communications, obtained this week by The Washington Post under a Freedom of Information Act request, provide a rare glimpse into the complex and meticulous backstage efforts to manage the likely 2016 presidential candidate’s lucrative speaking career.
At UCLA, efforts to book Clinton and then prepare for her visit were all-consuming, beginning almost immediately after she left her job as secretary of state on Feb. 1, 2013, until she delivered her Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership speech on March 5, 2014.
The documents show that Clinton’s representatives at the Harry Walker Agency exerted considerable control over her appearance and managed even the smallest details — from requesting lemon wedges and water on stage to a computer, scanner, and a spread of hummus and crudité in the green room backstage.
PIC---Gene Block, UCLA’s chief executive and chancellor, presents a medal to Hillary Rodham Clinton after her speech at the school March 5. (Nick Ut/AP)
Top university officials discussed at length the style and color of the executive armchairs Clinton and moderator Lynn Vavreck would sit in as they carried on a question-and-answer session, as well as the kind of pillows to be situated on each chair. Clinton’s representatives requested that the chairs be outfitted with two long, rectangular pillows — and that two cushions be kept backstage in case the chair was too deep and she needed additional back support.
After a lengthy call with a Clinton representative, UCLA administrator Patricia Lippert reported to campus colleagues, “She uses a lavalier [microphone] and will both speak from the audience and walk around stage, TED talk style. We need a teleprompter and 2-3 downstage scrolling monitors [for] her to read from.”
During a walk-through of Royce Hall five days before the lecture, the e-mails show, Clinton’s team rejected the podium planned for her use during her 20- to 30- minute speech, setting off a scramble on campus to find a suitable podium and rent a new university seal to match.
In the nearly two years since stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton has made dozens of paid appearances across the country at industry conventions and Wall Street banks as well as at universities. Her UCLA fee, like those at other universities, went to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the family’s nonprofit group.
But critics have argued that the carefully staged events and high speaking fees could complicate Clinton’s ability to run a populist campaign built around the economic struggles of the middle class.
Versions of Clinton’s standard speaking contracts have surfaced publicly this year — including her luxury travel requirements — but the contracts do not contain the extensive detail seen in the UCLA communications.
It is unclear how personally involved Clinton was in the UCLA negotiations and whether the requests from her agency were being directed by her or merely from underlings anticipating her preferences. A Clinton spokesman declined to comment on the speaking arrangements.
It is commonplace for celebrity speakers to request special accommodations — and Clinton was no exception. Her representatives asked for a case of still water, room temperature, to be deposited stage right. They also asked that “a carafe of warm/hot water, coffee cup and saucer, pitcher of room temperature water, water glass, and lemon wedges” be situated both on a table on stage as well as in another room where Clinton would stand for photos with VIPs.
For the green room, Clinton’s representatives requested: “Coffee, tea, room temp sparkling and still water, diet ginger ale, crudité, hummus and sliced fruit.” They also asked for a computer, mouse and printer, as well as a scanner, which the university had to purchase for the occasion.
When university officials decided to award Clinton the UCLA Medal, Clinton’s team asked that it be presented to her in a box rather than draped around her neck. That request was sent to the university’s chancellor, Gene Block.
“Chancellor Block has agreed to accommodate Hillary Clinton’s request to have the medal presented in a box,” Assistant Provost Margaret Leal-Sotelo wrote in one e-mail.
Lippert replied: “I can either have the jewelers box open or closed, in case the Chancellor doesn’t want to risk opening it.” By contract, Clinton’s approval was needed for any promotional materials. Clinton gave permission for the university to record the event, but “for archival purposes only.”
For public distribution, Clinton’s speaking agency approved only a two-minute highlight video to upload to YouTube. “Please make sure it is available only for one (1) year from the date of posting,” a Harry Walker Agency official added.
Clinton posed for individual photos with 100 VIPS, or 50 couples — “We get a total of 50 clicks,” one university official explained — as well as two group photos. Lippert wrote to colleagues that Clinton’s representatives wanted the group shots “prestaged,” with participants assembled and ready to take the photographs before Clinton arrived “so the secretary isn’t waiting for these folks to get their act together.” Reiterating the request, Lippert added, “She doesn’t like to stand around waiting for people.”
Like many major universities, UCLA regularly pays high-profile speakers to visit campus. Many of the visits are funded through a private endowment and not with tuition or public dollars. Clinton’s appearance was privately funded in part by a lecture series endowed by Meyer Luskin, an investor and president of Scope Industries, a food waste recycling company.
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foxnews.com
Hillary requires ‘presidential suite,’ stenographer for speaking engagements,
report says Hillary has a taste for luxury to match any world leader.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal obtained Clinton’s contract and related documents related to a scheduled October 13 speech at a University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Foundation fundraiser. The documents show that Clinton received $225,000 to speak at the fundraiser, a discount from her initial $300,000 asking price.
But the fee was only the first of Clinton’s many stipulations.
The former Secretary of State insists on staying in the ‘presidential suite’ of a luxury hotel of her staff’s choice, with up to five other rooms reserved for her travel aides and advance staff. Clinton also reportedly requires that the Foundation provide a private plane. However, the jet can not be any private plane; only a $39 million, 16-passenger Gulfstream G450 “or larger” will do the job.
“It is agreed that Speaker will be the only person on the stage during her remarks,” reads the contract for the event, which also requires that Clinton have final approval of all moderators or introducers.
Also, according to her standard speaking contract, Clinton has to stay at the event no longer than 90 minutes and will pose for no more than 50 photos with no more than 100 people. There is no press coverage of video or audio taping of her speech allowed, with the only record allowed being made by a stenographer whose transcript is given to Clinton. The paper reports, however, that the stenographer’s $1,250 bill will be paid by the UNLV Foundation.
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December 20, 2015 / Update January 31, 2015
Something nice about Hillary.....
Hmmmm......
That’s a tough one.....
Nice......
About Hillary.....
She can skid across a van floor like nobody’s business?
Mom would be proud! Bravo!
They need to spice things up. Maybe a Magic act. How about making Billions disappear as they did in Haiti.
Well, then, my work here is done.
I guess it’s time for me to ride off into the West.....
Me and my drunk dog singing songs and challenging cats to drag races.
Shocking. Bubba made over a million dollars a month for two straight years, just for showing up and running his mouth.
No doubt, most of those organizations paid his exorbitant speaking fees, in hopes of securing some sort of favored status with the much anticipated Hillary administration.
My, how the ticket prices have fallen!
Excellent. My dog won’t drink alone and when we get drunk I make him drive. If he gets caught and loses his license that just means he stays in the house with a collar bracelet for awhile. And his bail at the pound is twenty bucks. My problem is, he cheats at poker. Up bill and hill! Salute.
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