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In reply to the discussion: Chelsea Clinton Follows Parents’ Lead as a Paid Speaker [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)70. It's all in LLC's, 501-C's and other finacial boondoogling the Clever, Highly Paid
Lawyers use to protect the "Foundation" from scrutiny. They have it MAID....They do what the rest of Wall Street does because they are PART OF THAT COMMUNITY....because they MADE IT! In more ways than we, out here, can even Imagine!
THEY....are the Best and the Brightest and ENTITLED to MORE than the rest of us.......because of their status as Royalty.
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Seriously, $75,000 a pop! Geeez! Good thing Chelsea doesn't care about money; God only knows how much she would be charging then.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jul 2014
#65
She's donating it to the foundation. Should she care about the charitable foundation's money?
pnwmom
Jul 2014
#153
omg YES! All that dirty corporate cash the Foundation collects obiousvly in xchange 4 political favors? ABSOLUTELY! We should all care bout that money.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jul 2014
#156
Oh really, guess you never heard that Bill and Hillary both donate speech earnings to the CGI.
Thinkingabout
Jul 2014
#5
Apparently Coulter gets in the neighborhood of $25-30k for her appearances. n/t
PoliticAverse
Jul 2014
#10
Hahaha, good one! Me too! Just the sound of Coulter's voice is grating enough.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Jul 2014
#67
You remember the VRWC, the impeachment, Ken Starr? Million$ and million$ in legal fee$....
Hekate
Jul 2014
#104
And millions in book deals, speaking engagements, corporate board memberships, etc...
Spider Jerusalem
Jul 2014
#126
"Sympathetic"? So did they deserve the mangling they got for trying to serve the country?
Hekate
Jul 2014
#130
I'm not suprised that, as a Clinton critic, that you view her as a one dimensional figure
bigtree
Jul 2014
#84
Oh sorry - she can do things like that since she's married to a bankster. nt
Dreamer Tatum
Jul 2014
#41
OH, WAIIIIIIT. DUH! She's a DEMOCRAT! My mistake. He's an Investment Banker, not a bankster.
Dreamer Tatum
Jul 2014
#47
that's certainly a plus. More power to her. She's advocating for some pretty important issues.
bigtree
Jul 2014
#53
You realize that what you just did here is called "Moving the Goalposts" right? nt
stevenleser
Jul 2014
#60
Let this be a lesson: Don't be a class traitor if you have lotsa bucks, like FDR or JFK or Nelson...
Hekate
Jul 2014
#135
Much as our own wages come across as elitism to Sub-Saharan subsistence farmers...
LanternWaste
Jul 2014
#108
Would love to see her in Detroit helping those families find water to wash with and drink.
KoKo
Jul 2014
#66
You have absolutely NO idea of what the Clintons have chosen to concern themselves with
bigtree
Jul 2014
#73
"Mr. Bazbaz said Ms. Clinton was not paid for her role as the organization’s vice chairwoman." n/t
PoliticAverse
Jul 2014
#36
It's all in LLC's, 501-C's and other finacial boondoogling the Clever, Highly Paid
KoKo
Jul 2014
#70
Would you pay someone $75,000 for a speech if it helped your organization to raise $2.1 million?
PoliticAverse
Jul 2014
#48
Damn her for being a strong, well educated, interesting woman that people want to hear!...nt
SidDithers
Jul 2014
#33
I guess 75K is a bargain, since according to you hagiographers she'll soon get her first Nobel.
Dreamer Tatum
Jul 2014
#38
The speaking engagement fees go to the Clinton Foundation which supports these kinds of issues..
Cha
Jul 2014
#89
Someone like Chelsea brings a lot of attention and $$$ to orgs. Whatever fee she gets is a pittance
Metric System
Jul 2014
#57
+10000 Instead, we get Clinton ownership of first NAFTA and now the bloody TPP.
woo me with science
Jul 2014
#151
As a private citizen, Chelsea can earn money by any legal means she wants.
HooptieWagon
Jul 2014
#82
She's worth it. Check out her no-holds-barred Geico lizard interview. Brilliant.
whereisjustice
Jul 2014
#91
I tried to only include things that had substance. Obviously I chose things that were favorable
bigtree
Jul 2014
#110
So a speech from any of them is a donation to causes they support. Got that. Boyoboy how evil.
Hekate
Jul 2014
#103
The howlers excoriate the shit out of people like Greenwald for making any money at all
whatchamacallit
Jul 2014
#123