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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I wonder what annual salary she gets from the Clinton Foundation?”
Maybe the foundation paid for her $10.5 million house like the paid for the house for Willy and Hitlery.
Influence peddling. Whoever pays, gets on a favorites list that is sent to Bill and Hil. If Chelsea succeeds in politics, these people will be early entries in her list of people to grant access to and do favors for.
Given what appears to be an American taste for elective dynasties, it’s only prudent to butter up the likely prospects. In China, they’re called “princelings.”
Until BJ decided to run for Prez, she went by Hillary Rodham.
One thing I LIKE about HilLIARy (wait for it, you’re going to like this one too) is how tone deaf she is on these issues and her incredible bad timing handling them.
Just about the time everyone forgot about her ridiculous $250,000 speaking fee she releases a stary about how she ‘donates’ the money to charity ...The Clinton Foundation.
Not only was that an actual WORSE response in it’s stupidiy, she released it just as the story would have been completely forgotten by the press.
And she has a habit of doing that just as a story is about to be forgotten, with some announcement that makes it worse.
Unlike Bill, who had impecible timing, she is annoying and just plain not likeable.
How is this not classified as graft and corruption?
“”being born into the family of a future president?””
Wrong. She was born into a family of first class grifters..
Have you ever seen her speak on TV? She barely opens her mouth, speaks through her teeth and has absolutely NOTHING to say. I would challenge anyone to tell me what her speeches are about...
Good grief - are people deaf, dumb and blind to the Clintons?
“”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!!!””
And she could introduce her ex-con father in law to the whole country...that should go over big.
I just pray that she doesn’t try and give beauty tips to the audience.
I think by the time 2016 rolls around they’re going to wish they’d never mentioned the words CLINTON FOUNDATION(s) in public.. It only makes people wonder what the heck is going on and those of us with curiosity and a computer are going to go snooping for tax returns and any records available online.
Does anyone even pretend that people care about what she has to say? She's 34 years old and never had a real job. Her mother at least has some experience to back the speeches and provide insight. Chelsea is the US equivalent of Prince Charles. Giving bland, generic speeches on esoteric, feel-good humanitarian topics because she can't figure out what she wants to do with her life.
$75 large? Wow, there IS a sucker born every minute.
Satan's great-grandson?
Surprised? No. Why would anyone in their right mind pay that kind of money to hear her speak?
I would rather listen to a tuning fork. 75K what a capilist piglet.
Why is Hillary “Mrs. Clinton,” but Chelsea is only “Ms. Clinton?”
The R is there to “prove” Hillary is not the lesbian she really is.
Little Mz Chelsea has been getting an unknown sum as a board memeber of the Clinton Foundation since 2011. CHAI, a health initiative spinoff of the mothership also employs Chelsea on the board. Her other board memberships are so far unreported but certainly contribute to the family stash.
We need leadership that will follow the law.
Makes me want to be a Clinton.
What the hell has she done that’s worth sharing ?
She’s done the same thing as other Democrat politicians’ kids, served as a convenient proxy to paying off the one at the top of the family tree.
She proclaimed that she did not care anything about money, than a few days later bought a condo for $6,000,000. Her propensity for telling the truth is similar thereunto to her mother’s. I would not walk across the street to hear what she has to say even it it was free.
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