Posted on 03/30/2010 8:05:02 AM PDT by SmithL
SACRAMENTO — Sarah Palin typically generates controversy with what she says.
Now the former vice presidential candidate is creating a buzz over how much she'll make at a black-tie gala she plans to headline at Cal State Stanislaus.
How much she is commanding for her June 25 appearance at the $500-per-ticket affair won't be known because her contract with the CSU Stanislaus Foundation stipulates secrecy. It's the secrecy that rankles state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, who is calling for full disclosure.
"The CSU should immediately disclose how much money is being diverted from students to pay Sarah Palin's exorbitant speaking fees," Yee said in a statement accompanying a letter to the university's president, Hamid Shirvani.
"At a time when students are struggling to afford an education at CSU, I would hope that spending potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars on a guest speaker for a black-tie gala would be low on the priority list.
Yee described Palin as "an out-of-touch former politician" and said the money should be spent on scholarships and financial aid.
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
past csu keynote speakers:
cornel west
mike farrell
danny glover
rev joseph lowery
hmm...i wonder if there were protests/inquiries for these fine speakers?
To start with people are paying $500 a pop to go to this appearance, that is where the money is coming from to pay Sarah. The frickin’ left have no shame.
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They don’t teach free market capitalism in SF. All money comes from government don’t you know?
I think he has to PAY to speak nowadays.............
Palin's honorarium will come from an endowment fund specifically established for these events. There will be no student's money diverted.
As a matter of fact, the fund is probably set-up so that the money can't be used for any other purpose but to bring in public speakers.
Just remember what EVER the wacked out left accuse US of doing, it is because they do this crap all the time.
Like Ann Coulter says, Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
This is the guy who not only thinks that illegal aliens should be welcomed in, but that invasive species should not be discriminated against by environmentalists.
He is also known for proposing that the California Building Standards Commission should add the principles of Feng Shui to its rules and requirements. Just what California needs: more mandated rules.
First, perhaps I’m mistaken, but my impression is that university foundations like the CSU Stanislaus Foundation exist to raise money for their campi, faculty and students, not the other way around. So it’s not as if the students are being forced to pay fees to cover this. And I’m skeptical that her speaking fee is anything but a trivial drain on the CSU Stan endowment fund. Her fee almost certainly isn’t that large, and more to the point, if their fundraisers have any clue at all what they’re about, the endowment fund isn’t that small.
Second, I submit that Mrs. Palin is only “formerly” a politician in the sense that she is not at this moment being paid by any government to be one. And given what the California state legislature, and specifically the Democrats in the majority, have been up to lately, I think I’d be very, very careful about referring to anyone else, let alone Mrs. Palin, as “out-of-touch”.
It’s the secrecy that rankles state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, who is calling for full disclosure.
This D-retard should talk to Obama about secrecy and full disclosure. Palin is not an elected government employee thus need not reply.
If Ivan Pavlov was still around he could save a lot of dog spit.
So what is an exorbitant speaking fee. No one forces them to pay for Sarah’s speaking. She is offering something that is hers for sale. The university can take it or leave it. It seems that I have a right to keep secret my pricing if I wish.
I wonder if Yee was upset when the Jew Hating Ward Churchill came to UC Davis to speak? Probably not!
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/08/18452888.php
Ward Churchill speaks @ UC-Davis (11/1)
by students for peace and justice
Monday Oct 8th, 2007 11:46 AM
Ward Churchill will be speaking at the University of California, Davis on November 1st @ 8:00pm in room Chem 194 !!!
The official title of the speech is:
“Zionism, Manifest Destiny, and Nazi Lebensraumpolitik: Three Variations on a Common Theme”
Yee is running for Mayor of Homo- Frisco ?
Okay, so this is Gay Yee, who wants to be mayor of Gay Frisco, doing what gays do, bashing Sarah Palin.
I fear that no one is going to be allowed to sell anything, including labor and expertise,unless a union and the Federal government receive a cut. The unions and the government will, of course, decide the percentage or amount of that fee. Eventually, we will all be forced to join some *union* or not be able to work unless we get rid of all this ASAP.
I don’t remember seeing any bad press when Michelle Obama spoke in Merced.
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