Posted on 07/09/2014 9:08:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There is a new Clinton paid to deliver speeches — Chelsea, the former first daughter — and she is commanding as much as $75,000 per appearance.
Aides stressed that while Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton often address trade groups and Wall Street bankers, Ms. Clinton, now 34, focuses on organizations whose goals are in line with the work of the family’s philanthropic organization, the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Organizers said her star power helped sell tickets and raise money.
And unlike her parents’ talks, Ms. Clinton’s speeches “are on behalf of the Clinton Foundation, and 100 percent of the fees are remitted directly to the foundation,” said her spokesman, Kamyl Bazbaz, adding that “the majority of Chelsea’s speeches are unpaid.” The Harry Walker Agency, the firm that represents her parents’ engagements, handles Ms. Clinton’s talks on behalf of the family foundation.
The family speechmaking business is a lucrative one and has generated more than $100 million for her parents over the past decade as they hopscotched the globe. Their fees range from $200,000 to $700,000 per appearance, and Mr. Clinton alone earned $17 million last year giving speeches.
Ms. Clinton has avoided the controversies that have lately accompanied her mother’s speeches, particularly at public universities. Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state and a potential presidential candidate, also donates her university fees to the family foundation, but critics have said that as taxpayer-supported institutions, the schools should put that money to better use.
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How to be a grifter like your parents?
How to impregnate yourself with a turkey baster?
Any others?
LOL maybe they will have a subscription service for a webcam in the nursery.
Nice... you can bet she doesn’t even WRITE the speech. Probably doesn’t know HOW!
Great work if you can get it!
Payola—kick back, bribe. Nothing more. Only hidden as “speech fees”.
hey give her a break
someone has to support her ski-bum wannabe husband and tip the doorman
Aren’t the people who are paying this embarrassed?
I heard her stutter and stammer on TV once and once was enough. She wasn’t quite as bad as Caroline Kennedy and her “you knows” but almost.
RE: Caroline Kennedy and her “you knows”
Does she use the word “Like” ? As in.. “It’s Like...”
LOL! Probably, I don’t exactly remember, another annoyance to have to listen to!
HA!!!! LOL
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