I wasn’t that interested that Hillary Clinton was paid $275,000 to speak at the University at Buffalo. What grabbed me was her other demands:
The potential 2016 presidential candidate’s agent requested that the university provide “a presidential glass panel teleprompter and a qualified operator,” that Clinton’s office have “final approval” of her introducer and the moderator of any question-and-answer session, as well as “the sets, backdrops, banners, scenery, logos, settings, etc,” and that the topic and length of the former secretary of state’s speech would be at her “sole discretion.”
These requirements are spelled out in a nine-page contract between the University at Buffalo and Clinton’s representatives at the Harry Walker Agency. The contract was obtained through the freedom of information law by the Public Accountability Initiative, a non-profit research and educational group….
What? No bowlful of red-only M&Ms? I guess every rock star has a different set of demands…
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I thought it was brown M&Ms.
No brown M&Ms….
Whatever. I would demand NO M&Ms. If I saw even one in my dressing room, I wouldn’t go on stage…
It’s actually kind of offensive that public universities, or their foundations, would pay that kind of scratch for a speaker. Obviously, we are overfunding them.
I don’t understand how she commands that type of fee for simply talking. No one’s speech is worth that.
And I’m someone who’s paid for my time talking/writing.
And, if someone OFFERED you $275,000 to do either, would you turn it down? 😉
Just yankin’ yer chain, Bryan…
As a refugee from the PR department at a state university very nearby to Seneca, I’m pretty sure we never paid THAT kind of speaker’s fee for anyone. Of course, we never had a Hillary Clinton. I do recall Leonard Nimoy, Aldo Chella (“O, Aldo…!” wine huckster) and the Mayflower Madam among those we had speak. Our graduation speakers were rarely so interesting…usually big donors and such…occasionally a political type but, again, no Hillarys….
Chill a Chella
It boils down to controlling the message. Sounds like a candidate to me…