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All the Conference Only and Conference + Banquet Tickets are sold out. They are trying to get $350 a seat for the leftover Banquet (Palin Speech) seats not sold as part of the Conference Package.

That's a lot of money for a rubber chicken dinner, even if Palin is the Speaker.

The Claremont Institute 30th Anniversary Dinner with Dick Cheney is just $250 a seat, and it's being held at a swanky Los Angeles Hotel.

As for me, I'm going to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference being held in New Orleans in April. Tickets are $200 for the entire event, including Sarah Palin’s Speech.
She will be one of many speakers there.

Yup. It's a lot for a dinner for one of the lesser known political orgs. She is going to be speaking at my county's GOP 2010 fundraising kickoff dinner in April. The price of admission is $550 a plate and it will sell out the several hundred available seats - but it's GOP and FOR the purposes of campaign fundraising.

It is unclear (to me at least) what the financials are all about in this thing back East. It is a non traditional arrangement and perhaps should be better explained. Fact is it is becoming much maligned by some outfits on both sides of the fence and there is a grain of truth in what they are saying.

As regards Sarah Palin herself she is making hay right now and I don't begrudge her that, but it appears she is contributing this fee to one or more of her causes and the folks slamming her ought to at least be honest about that.