Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

Any comments by me are interjected within square brackets.

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Ever since Hillary Clinton asserted that she wasn’t “truly well off” compared to other fabulously rich one-percenters (despite her family’s personal wealth and all evidence to the contrary) she’s had her (ahem) fair share of struggles convincing ordinary Americans she occupies the same world as them. The remark is especially tone-deaf given that she reportedly asks for at least six-figures every time she delivers a paid speech.

The median household income in the United States is roughly $44,000 .

But the extent of her speaking fee demands go well beyond mere dollars and cents. As The Las Vegas Review-Journal exclusively reports:

According to a May 31, 2013 email, Clinton’s standard contract usually includes:
* Round-trip transportation on a chartered private jet “e.g., a Gulfstream 450 or larger jet,” plus round-trip business class travel for two advance staffers who will arrive up to three days in advance. [The Gulfstream is the fanciest, largest, most luxurious of the "corporate jet" genre of aircraft. It is idiotically wasteful to use a Gulfstream for just a few passengers when a much smaller, cheaper, and ecologically less-damaging plane like a Learjet or Cessna Citation would do the job just as well.]

* Hotel accommodations selected by Clinton’s staff and including “a presidential suite for Secretary Clinton and up to three (3) adjoining or contiguous single rooms for her travel aides and up to two (2) additional single rooms for the advance staff.”

* A $500 travel stipend to cover out-of-pocket costs for Clinton’s lead travel aide.

* Meals and incidentals for Clinton, her travel aides and advance staff, as well as all phone charges.

* Final approval of all moderators or introducers. [Hmmm...stinks of censorship, doesn't it?]

The Review-Journal also notes that her speech at the University of Nevada’s 2012 “Foundation dinner," in particular, underscores Hillary’s lavish demands and preferences on the speaking circuit :

In fact, the former president spoke at the 2012 UNLV Foundation dinner, taking home a $250,000 fee. His spouse will get $225,000 to speak at the annual dinner. The size of Hillary Clinton’s fee has come under fire from critics who question the large expense in an era when students are hard-pressed to cover tuition and leave school saddled with massive debt. [Why in heck are they handing her almost a quarter of a million bucks ... + airplane, hotel, handler expense, when the school and students are financially hurting?]

But Clinton’s $225,000 is something of a cut-rate. Documents obtained by the newspaper show that she initially asked for $300,000 and reveal that she insists on controlling every detail of the private event, large and small, to ensure that she will be the center of attention.

“It is agreed that Speaker will be the only person on the stage during her remarks,” according to the May 13 contract the Harry Walker Agency signed for Clinton’s keynote address at the Bellagio.

According to her standard speaking contract, Clinton will remain at the event no longer than 90 minutes; will pose for no more than 50 photos with no more than 100 people; and won’t allow any press coverage or video- or audio-taping of her speech.

A six-figure fee, presidential lodgings, complete control over the logistics of the event, and media censorship were only some of Hillary Clinton’s stipulations when delivering paid remarks at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas two years ago. [Similar arrangements are made in her many other speaking engagements; which are thinly-veiled fundraisers for Hillary].

Parting question: How will these revelations play with the Democratic base? Will she get a free pass since she reportedly gives all of her earnings to “charity ” (i.e. her own foundation), or will she be heavily criticized for hypocrisy, greed, and self-indulgence?

yorkslass Loc: Virginia

Pushed swiftly to the back page, the story of Bill using Killaries status of SOS to secure speaking dates all over the Globe. Their should be an investigation of this but it is just one more "phony scandal" and as democrats say.... Nothing to see, move along!

Also have read that this Clinton Foundation has not given one dime to charity... It is all just a front to shield the funds from the IRS, from taxes and keep it safely locked up for the Clinton machine.

Gnslngr

I don't get it - she is charging what the market will bear. That's capitalism and that's good, right?

johnst1001a Loc: West Chester, Ohio

They all get big money for speeches, and have lots of pirks. Neut Gingrich has often bragged about his per speech fee. Romney gets a ton, as does Bill Clinton, and will Obama. They all do, that is their job, that is their living. And you think politicians are the only ones that get perks? Think of your CEO, CFO, company President, college athletic directors, major college football coaches, movie stars, and on and on. This is the way it is, has been, and will be. What do you want any of these politicians to do, refuse making money???? Again, that is their job.

daddybear Loc: Brunswick, NY

I agree, charge what your talent and experience is worth. What
I have a problem with is her book tour. She held a book signing at a small book store in Saratoga, NY. As the wife of the POTUS
and SofS she is entitled to Secret Service protection. However, at this signing there were seven agents not being too secret, screening those wishing to have the book signed that they had just purchased. Taxpayers paying for her
book selling endeavour I and others had a problem with. Local police were brought in on overtime to clear traffic from travel route, the book store area, close off the block and re-direct traffic. When the mayor was asked about the cost to taxpayers her response was to tell the citizens that they should grateful that she came to their small city. A ton of money spent for her to sell a
book with her hastily scrawled signature.

SwedeUSA2

And what is the source for this crap?

Harold K.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal exclusively reports

SwedeUSA2

Oh, so that must reliable and truthful! Who'd thunked?

Harold K.

Hey I just copied and paste what was right in front of your nose Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!

Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

It is not a marketplace matter. It is thinly-disguised payoffs, political contributions, and occasionally shakedowns.

New York Steve Loc: St. Augustine, Florida

I spent the better part of 15 years working in the music industry.

Clinton's rider is tame compared to what even some has-been like Brett Michaels demands, and is a mere pimple on the ass of the demands of many stars these days...