This is great...Income Inequality?

[WNYresident]

[buffy]

Speaking fees for Bill and Hillary are essentially donor money laundering schemes to benefit themselves through their family foundation. It's all in the book "Clinton Cash". She peddled her influence to enrich herself.

[300miles]

She peddled her influence to enrich herself.

One of my beefs with Hillary is her claiming to be "dead broke" after the leaving the white house, while collecting $200k per speech. However I'm not sure that using influence to enrich oneself is necessarily wrong. As long as someone's willing to pay it, and people that actually want to listen to her.

[buffy]

However I'm not sure that using influence to enrich oneself is necessarily wrong. As long as someone's willing to pay it, and people that actually want to listen to her.

To be clear, the book, "Clinton Cash" argues that the Clinton family accepted lavish donations and speaking fees from foreign donors at times when the State Department was considering whether or not to award large contracts to groups and people affiliated with those donors.. Now do you see something wrong? The book gives specifics as to donor and contract - the book names names.

from wikipedia...

The book is organized into eleven chapters. Some chapters focus on particular transactions or deals, such as the creation of UrAsia Energy and Uranium One in Kazkakhstan, and the connection shareholders had and have to the Clintons. Other chapters focus on a broader set of relationships, particularly with regard to Bill Clinton’s paid speeches during the years Hillary Clinton served as Secretary of State, and whether those paying for his speeches had significant business before the State Department.[5] Schweizer dubs the Clintons' blend of government service and private remuneration the “Clinton blur.” [6]

[buffy]

Read this...http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...tons-campaign/

[leftWNYbecauseofBS]

One of my beefs with Hillary is her claiming to be "dead broke" after the leaving the white house, while collecting $200k per speech. However I'm not sure that using influence to enrich oneself is necessarily wrong. As long as someone's willing to pay it, and people that actually want to listen to her.

The problem with many of these speaking fees is that they are more often than not paid for by pools of funds that are managed by a select group of people instead of tickets where someone has a choice.

For example, Clinton was asked by the University of Missouri at Kansas City to speak at the opening of a Women's Hall of Fame. She quoted $275k. They declined but decided to book Chelsea Clinton for $65,000 instead.

The funds to pay Chelsea came out of funds that were funded by the school...which really means the students via tuition and fees. The students did not get to vote. The students did not get a say. Every college does this.

FWIW, Trump was paid $200k by UB to speak there but he donated that money to charity. No doubt in part for PR.


The main question I have is who in their right mind wants to pay Chelsea Clinton $65k for an appearance. Just what in the world has she done to warrant such a fee? Serious question.

The secondary question is who can take anyone who asks $275k to give a speech seriously when they want to talk about poverty in America?

[Save Us]

The problem with many of these speaking fees is that they are more often than not paid for by pools of funds that are managed by a select group of people instead of tickets where someone has a choice.

For example, Clinton was asked by the University of Missouri at Kansas City to speak at the opening of a Women's Hall of Fame. She quoted $275k. They declined but decided to book Chelsea Clinton for $65,000 instead.

The funds to pay Chelsea came out of funds that were funded by the school...which really means the students via tuition and fees. The students did not get to vote. The students did not get a say. Every college does this.

FWIW, Trump was paid $200k by UB to speak there but he donated that money to charity. No doubt in part for PR.


The main question I have is who in their right mind wants to pay Chelsea Clinton $65k for an appearance. Just what in the world has she done to warrant such a fee? Serious question.

The secondary question is who can take anyone who asks $275k to give a speech seriously when they want to talk about poverty in America?

I keep waiting for Americans to wake up to the mess that is called Clinton.

[buffy]

I keep waiting for Americans to wake up to the mess that is called Clinton.

It's hard to "see" the mess when Hillary's top donors are careful to prevent us from seeing it.

NBC Universal, News Corporation, Turner Broadcasting and Thomson Reuters are among more than a dozen media organizations that have made charitable contributions to the Clinton Foundation in recent years, the foundation's records show.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/...#ixzz3vozzIqHc

and,

If you watched the first Democrat Presidential debate last night on CNN, it was plainly obvious that the head honchos did their level best to make it the Hillary Clinton show. The main moderator, Anderson Cooper, used to be a member of the Clinton Global Initiative; and he couldn’t wait to interrupt each of the other candidates so that he could get back to whatever Hillary Clinton wanted to say. Clinton was front and center on the stage, and it wasn’t by accident.

read who her top donors are...

http://poorrichardsnews.com/naturally-cnns-parent-company-is-one-of-hillary-clintons-biggest-donors/

[buffy]

The following list includes news media organizations that have donated to the foundation, as well as other media networks, companies, foundations or individuals that have donated. It is organized by the size of the contribution:

$1,000,000-$5,000,000
Carlos Slim Chairman & CEO of Telmex, largest New York Times shareholder

James Murdoch Chief Operating Officer of 21st Century Fox

Newsmax Media Florida-based conservative media network

Thomson Reuters Owner of the Reuters news service

$500,000-$1,000,000
Google News Corporation Foundation

Philanthropic arm of former Fox News parent company

$250,000-$500,000
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publisher
Richard Mellon Scaife Owner of Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

$100,000-$250,000
Abigail Disney Documentary filmmaker
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Howard Stringer
Former CBS, CBS News and Sony executive
Intermountain West Communications Company
Local television affiliate owner (formerly Sunbelt Communications)

$50,000-$100,000
Bloomberg L.P.
Discovery Communications Inc.
George Stephanopoulos ABC News chief anchor and chief political correspondent
Mort Zuckerman Owner of New York Daily News and U.S. News & World Report
Time Warner Inc. Owner of CNN parent company Turner Broadcasting

$25,000-$50,000
AOL
HBO
Hollywood Foreign Press Association Presenters of the Golden Globe Awards
Viacom

$10,000-$25,000
Knight Foundation
Non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting journalism
Public Radio International
Turner Broadcasting
Parent company of CNN
Twitter
$5,000-$10,000
Comcast
Parent copmany of NBCUniversal
NBC Universal Parent company of NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC
Public Broadcasting Service

$1,000-$5,000
Robert Allbritton Owner of POLITICO

$250-$1,000
AOL Huffington Post Media Group
Hearst Corporation
Judy Woodruff PBS Newshour co-anchor and managing editor

The Washington Post Company


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/...#ixzz3vp1XkoAL