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Chelsea Clinton Follows Parents’ Lead as a Paid Speaker [$75,000 Per Speech]
New York Times ^ | 07/09/2014 | By AMY CHOZICK

Posted on 07/09/2014 9:08:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

There is a new Clinton paid to deliver speeches — Chelsea, the former first daughter — and she is commanding as much as $75,000 per appearance.

Aides stressed that while Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton often address trade groups and Wall Street bankers, Ms. Clinton, now 34, focuses on organizations whose goals are in line with the work of the family’s philanthropic organization, the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Organizers said her star power helped sell tickets and raise money.

And unlike her parents’ talks, Ms. Clinton’s speeches “are on behalf of the Clinton Foundation, and 100 percent of the fees are remitted directly to the foundation,” said her spokesman, Kamyl Bazbaz, adding that “the majority of Chelsea’s speeches are unpaid.” The Harry Walker Agency, the firm that represents her parents’ engagements, handles Ms. Clinton’s talks on behalf of the family foundation.

The family speechmaking business is a lucrative one and has generated more than $100 million for her parents over the past decade as they hopscotched the globe. Their fees range from $200,000 to $700,000 per appearance, and Mr. Clinton alone earned $17 million last year giving speeches.

Ms. Clinton has avoided the controversies that have lately accompanied her mother’s speeches, particularly at public universities. Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state and a potential presidential candidate, also donates her university fees to the family foundation, but critics have said that as taxpayer-supported institutions, the schools should put that money to better use.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chelseaclinton; hillaryclinton; hillarytruthfile; hubbelspawn; kickbacks; payola; salary; speech
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To: denydenydeny; SeekAndFind; SortaBichy

You misspelled the “T”-word....


21 posted on 07/09/2014 9:24:17 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s really disguised campaign financing.


22 posted on 07/09/2014 9:24:27 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Shouldn’t she be paying people $75,000 to hear her?


23 posted on 07/09/2014 9:26:00 AM PDT by Fair Paul
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder what Amy Carter is doing these days?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Carter

She’s an “activist”


24 posted on 07/09/2014 9:28:23 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s not.forget that Chelsea’s husband makes millions on wall street.

No mention of that.


25 posted on 07/09/2014 9:30:16 AM PDT by what's up
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To: DonaldC

I can think of a few things that might be worth that kind of money;

Why Fort Marcy Park.

Maintenance schedule of Ron Brown’s plane.

How her daddy cultivated a love of Ducks in her life.

Saw the blue dress.

Why Chinese people are so generous.

(List is unending...)


26 posted on 07/09/2014 9:31:35 AM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The only reason to pay her is to curry favor with her parents.
WTF could she possibly have to say?
The only thing she’s ever done is fall out of her mother.


27 posted on 07/09/2014 9:31:40 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: DonaldC

It’s not what you know, it’s who you are related to.


28 posted on 07/09/2014 9:35:24 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

You know I can see why people would be interested in hearing a speech by Bill Clinton, he was a 2 term president of the US. I can even sort of see why people would be interested in hearing a speech by Hillary. But Chelsea? Give me a break, I find it hard to believe she would have anything of value to say. Sorry Chelsea!


29 posted on 07/09/2014 9:37:35 AM PDT by jocon307 (These people are (some Polish word) crazy)
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To: SeekAndFind
A few weeks ago Bill Clinton was on David Letterman’s show and Bill posited the idea that ‘it is best to have Chelsea as candidate for President, instead of Hillary’. So that is the direction they have chosen to go.

It is the ole recognition of name that will get her (Chelsea) elected, if that in fat happens one day in the future. God Forbid!!!

30 posted on 07/09/2014 9:37:49 AM PDT by geologist ("If you love me, keep my commands" .... John 14 :15)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wouldn’t give her 75 cents FOR ANYTHING. Who the hell s paying her $75K to speak and what is the payback?


31 posted on 07/09/2014 9:38:13 AM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

“Why is Hillary “Mrs. Clinton,” but Chelsea is only “Ms. Clinton?”

of course you’re right. the young sprout trading off the family name because she doesn’t care about money. shouldn’t Chelzee be known as Mrs. Marc Mezvinsky?


32 posted on 07/09/2014 9:40:05 AM PDT by IWONDR
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To: denydenydeny
Oh, ffs. What in earth has this little twit done in her entire privileged life to warrant speaking fees?

Being the love child of Hillary and Webb Hubbell, whose "stepfather" was serviced in the Oval Office while pretending to be POTUS.

Apparently, the groups she speaks to, have low standards. /sarc

33 posted on 07/09/2014 9:41:23 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: SeekAndFind

It amazes me that there actually is a sucker born every minute.

That anybody would pay anything to hear Bill, Hillary or Chelsea give a speech about anything is completely amazing to me.

Business people make money by creating value for other people (hence the term, “value proposition.”)

What possible value proposition do Bill, Hillary and Chelsea offer?

I guess the same kind of value proposition that Tony Soprano offered Barone Sanitation.


34 posted on 07/09/2014 9:46:15 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: SeekAndFind
LOL!

-PJ

35 posted on 07/09/2014 9:48:01 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Milton Miteybad

I wonder what annual salary she gets from the Clinton Foundation?


36 posted on 07/09/2014 9:48:39 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SeekAndFind

She makes more in one speech than most millenials will make in a year or two-—or more nowadays.


37 posted on 07/09/2014 9:49:51 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tryranny)
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To: SeekAndFind

Webb Hubbell would be so proud.


38 posted on 07/09/2014 9:50:04 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The corruption is so deep in the ruling class. There really are only two solutions when it gets to this level. One is a massive brokenness and turning to Jesus.


39 posted on 07/09/2014 9:51:27 AM PDT by lurk
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To: nascarnation

“What can she possibly know worth that much money?
They’re paying protection money to the Clinton Crime Family.”

These payments to Bill, Hill and now Chelsea are a way to launder bribes to the KKKlinton family for protection and influence peddling. If we had a real media the amount of influence peddling money paid to Slick alone would be a major scandal.


40 posted on 07/09/2014 9:51:28 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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