Well has she had enough time to look into it yet?
Just asking..........
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Sometimes speakers are simply an attraction, so that the organization can hit folks up for donations or whatever.
Groups kept hiring Hillary to come back, and she was one of the only woman speakers who ever commanded fees comparable to the famous men, so she must have been worth it or they would not have continued to hire her.
My educator's union and accreditation agencies have hired famous speakers for large fees. Sometimes politicians, sometimes business leaders, sometimes celebrities. One time we hired a famous football player. This year, our state meeting had a Senator.
If the meeting is attended by 5,000 to 10,000 people and everyone paid $300 to $500 registration (that's typical for my groups), then everyone is contributing to the speaker's fee. Of course, sometimes a big corporation might be a sponsor and pay for a speaker's fee. I would think high paid business executives would not even blink at a dinner costing $1000 or $2000 per person.
I've also been invited (not my money) to be at at table for a speech where a lobbyist bought the seats for about $5000 for a table of 6. I was invited because I was a union officer. In that case, the politician was a repub willing to speak against open-carry of guns! Our educators union wants stronger gun control.
Demanding transcripts is fine if people want them, but I suspect that if there was anything like a Romney moment in one of Hillary's speeches, that the GOP would already have found it and used it against her - after all, some of those audiences were as anti-Hillary as anywhere (except maybe GDP 
). Most of those wanting them "released" won't read them or care what she says. They are just repeating the meme as an anti-Hillary attack-du-jour.
