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In reply to the discussion: HRC charges $225,000 fee to Univ. which just had to raise tuition 17% [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)Her Goldman-Sachs speaking fees were "only" $200,000 per speech. I gently suggest you consider the reality that it was/is as much in HRC's power to lower her fees as well as raise them.
And even if some celebrity-groupies/university trustees wanted to throw a posh soiree for their wealthy friends (up to $20,000 a seat), a good American citizen, let alone someone dangling the possibility of running for president (which is why people are willing to pay that exorbitant speaker's fee/individual per seat fee), would charge a public university considerably less than she charged Goldman-Sachs. I mean, she was just moaning about the burden of paying her daughter's college tuition, wasn't she? Has she NO empathy for the non-one-percent college students?
If Hillary is going to run for President she might be advised to take a lengthy sabbatical from her $200k per pop speaking tour and private shopping sprees at Bergdorfs to try and reconnect with whats happening back here on Earth, America Rising spokesman Tim Miller wrote Sunday in the email to Politico.
In the 2012 presidential race, Democrats attacked GOP nominee Mitt Romney as rich and out of touch.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/hillary-clinton-collect-225000-keynote-unlv-fundraiser
'Shes been living 30, going on 40 years with somebody bringing your coffee to you every morning. Is it more Downton Abbey than it is America?'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-democrats-fear-clintons-wealth-and-imperial-image-could-be-damaging-in-2016/2014/06/22/526746e6-f7eb-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html