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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI pledge to donate $50 to Clinton's campaign!
...if she releases all of her paid speech transcripts.
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I pledge to donate $50 to Clinton's campaign! (Original Post)
Bread and Circus
Feb 2016
OP
Maybe We'll get lucky and that Waiter/Waitress or busboy who recored a speech
Ferd Berfel
Feb 2016
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. Not enough. The transcript for eash speech cost someone about $1,250...
Recording Clintons speech is prohibited, but the sponsor must agree to pay $1,250 to a stenographer, who will transcribe the speech for Clintons records.
(From: https://theintercept.com/2016/02/05/heres-what-clintons-paid-speaking-contract-looks-like/ )
demwing
(16,916 posts)2. someone also got paid to write the speeches
doubtful that Clinton wrote her own...
Surely someone out there is ready to stir the pot?
Ferd Berfel
(3,687 posts)3. Maybe We'll get lucky and that Waiter/Waitress or busboy who recored a speech
with their phone will finally send it to youtube?
angrychair
(8,732 posts)4. I will pay nothing
And demand them none-the-less. In a bid for highest public office in our country, as a voter and citizen, I have a right to know.
If nothing else comes of this election, I truly hope that people at least learn the lesson that our government should be accountable to us, the voters. No matter how rich, no matter which party you are in, you must answer to the voter.