WaPo: Plans for UCLA visit give rare glimpse into Hillary Clinton’s paid speaking career

[cui bono]

As the issue of Hillary's enormous speaking fees from banksters and the health insurance industry I found this to be interesting. I hadn't heard about her demands that are in addition to a huge speaking fee (already discounted for a public university). In my opinion they really show she is out of touch with the everyday lives of 'normal' people.

This is why Bernie is the best candidate to fight for the people. He has a firm grasp on what is important and not important. He is not a diva. He flies coach. He speaks from the back of a pickup truck. He stands out in the cold weather speaking to those who couldn't fit into the venue. He can relate to the average Jane. And Joe.

By Rosalind S. Helderman and Philip Rucker November 26, 2014

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.”
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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.

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.

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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.

more...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/plans-for-ucla-visit-give-rare-glimpse-into-hillary-clintons-paid-speaking-career/2014/11/26/071eb0cc-7593-11e4-bd1b-03009bd3e984_story.html

And somewhere in the story it said the UCLA had to purchase a scanner because Clinton demanded there be one there.

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[Jarqui]

1. Sad. Behaving as if she's royalty to speak to a bunch of young people

six figures in debt from going to school in an economy her husband factored significantly to creating with his poor trade deals

... and speakers gouging schools like Hillary are not helping.

I can see cleaning out Goldman Sachs but students (they arguably pay for it) ?

[grasswire]

2. It's good to be the queen.

Apologies to Mel Brooks.

[NowSam]

3. The students can pay for it

with higher tuition rates and devastating loanshark student loans. isn't that great?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. $300,000 could cover all four years' worth of tuition

for at least five students (@ about $13K per year). Four years of education x five vs. a one-hour speech? It sucks that she asked that kind of fee and it sucks that they gave it. How much value do you get from educating five people who won't have to carry a $53K student loan on their backs vs. the value of an hour of platitudes from a politician? What kind of bullshit is this?

[Agony]

13. 1/2 hour…."during her 20- to 30-minute speech"

just saying…

[beam me up scottie]

5. She charged more to speak at a college than at Goldman Sachs?

GS must have gotten the greedy Wall Street Executive discount.

[JudyM]

6. Lol! Apparently. Nt

[cui bono]

10. LOL!

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[ebayfool]

16. Yup! n/t

[winter is coming]

7. I thought people just spontaneously offered her $$$ to speak.

Or did "that's what they offered" mean that Hillary ask Goldman Sachs for more than $675K, but had to settle for less?

[cui bono]

9. I think you're on to something there...

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[CoffeeCat]

8. I want a golden goose and I want it now!

That's what comes to mind when I hear this stuff.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. Well, now, aren't WE the special little snowflake!

But at least they're not demanding peeled grapes and bowls of M&Ms with the "m&m" replaced with "HRC" in gold leaf. Yet.

I know it sounds petty and I'll probably be taken to task for it, but, policy differences aside, this is the sort of elitist crap that'll turn me against someone on a visceral level. We all have our non-negotiables, and this is one of mine.

[Ino]

12. Don't miss this related article...

linked to in the OP's link... detailing her extra requirements at a UNLV appearance
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/high-fashion-expense-hillary-travel

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.

■ 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.

[marlakay]

19. Wow no wonder no one can afford college

Adding all that up 400,000 to $500,000....

And then we see pics of Bernie flying coach. Who is the peoples candidate? And who is in it for the money?

[senz]

21. The "presidential suite"

Yep, she's ready on Day One.

[Oilwellian]

14. Not even Goldman Sachs had to pay that high of a fee

How very special of Hillary to milk more out of a public university.

[MisterP]

15. this is an sickening mockery of what the universities are doing

that's like 4 PhDs

OTOH I am amused by the idea of truly MASSIVE cushions that leave the viewer's feet dangling a foot and almost lost in upholstery

[cui bono]

17. RECTANGULAR cushions.

Don't you dare get the wrong kind!

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[amborin]

18. another Marie Antoinette

[senz]

20. How can anyone like her?

Anyone, at all?

It's gross.

Bernie is a thousand times more human than Hillary.