A college balks at Hillary Clinton’s fee, so books Chelsea for $65,000 instead

Washington Post ^ | 06/30/2015 | By Philip Rucker and Rosalind S. Helderman

[SeekAndFind]

When the University of Missouri at Kansas City was looking for a celebrity speaker to headline its gala luncheon marking the opening of a women’s hall of fame, one name came to mind: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But when the former secretary of state’s representatives quoted a fee of $275,000, officials at the public university balked. “Yikes!” one e-mailed another.

So the school turned to the next best option: her daughter, Chelsea.

The university paid $65,000 for Chelsea Clinton’s brief appearance Feb. 24, 2014, a demonstration of the celebrity appeal and marketability that the former and possibly second-time first daughter employs on behalf of her mother’s presidential campaign and family’s global charitable empire.

More than 500 pages of e-mails, contracts and other internal documents obtained by The Washington Post from the university under Missouri public record laws detail the school’s long courtship of the Clintons.

They also show the meticulous efforts by Chelsea Clinton’s image-makers to exert tight control over the visit, ranging from close editing of marketing materials and the introductory remarks of a high school student to limits on the amount of time she spent on campus.

The schedule she negotiated called for her to speak for 10 minutes, participate in a 20-minute, moderated question-and-answer session and spend a half-hour posing for pictures with VIPs offstage.

As with Hillary Clinton’s paid speeches at universities, Chelsea Clinton made no personal income from the appearance, her spokesman said, and directed her fee to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I’m sure college kids are going to want to pay to hear Chelsea talk about how she struggled, worked hard and overcame hardship to land a $600,000 no-work job at NBC.

[Carl Vehse]

If not the daughter of Satan, then the grandaughter.

[JPG]

[Don Corleone]

Grifters can always find another sucker.

[ETL]

We desperately need to find a cure for stupid! Any scientists among us currently working on that problem?

[bray]

Ain’t Marxism wonderful!

Pray America is waking

[Suz in AZ]

They probably could have gotten Chaz for less.

[Soul of the South]

If a state university can afford to spend $65,000 for a brief speech by Chelsea Clinton, the university is overfunded. Taxpayers should be demanding the state legislature reduce funding to the school.

However, conservatives will do nothing and the assault from the left will continue unabated.

[Nevadan]

perfect!

[Mike Darancette]

These venues are stupid.

[Da Coyote]

So, the college is admitting that it has no standards, since Chelsea is as dumb as her mother, and has the same history of never having produced anything of value.

[grania]

Neither public nor private colleges and universities should be paying speakers anything. People who are invited to speak for free should be willing to do for, because it's an honor and because they get their ideas across to students.

It's just not right, when so many students are going into debt because college is unaffordable for all but the more wealthy and/or the most resourceful.

[ETL]

The know-nothing daughter of a crooked Arkansas lawyer gets $65,000 to give a talk??

______________________________________________

Whitewater Convictions

Jim Guy Tucker: Governor of Arkansas at the time, removed from office (fraud, 3 counts)

John Haley: attorney for Jim Guy Tucker (tax evasion)
William J. Marks, Sr.: Jim Guy Tucker’s business partner (conspiracy)

Stephen Smith: former Governor Clinton aide (conspiracy to misapply funds). Bill Clinton pardoned.

Webster Hubbell: Clinton political supporter; Rose Law Firm partner (embezzlement, fraud)

Jim McDougal: banker, Clinton political supporter: (18 felonies, varied)

Susan McDougal: Clinton political supporter (multiple fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.

David Hale: banker, self-proclaimed Clinton political supporter: (conspiracy, fraud)

Neal Ainley: Perry County Bank president (embezzled bank funds for Clinton campaign)

Chris Wade: Whitewater real estate broker (multiple loan fraud). Bill Clinton pardoned.

Larry Kuca: Madison real estate agent (multiple loan fraud)

Robert W. Palmer: Madison appraiser (conspiracy). Bill Clinton pardoned.

John Latham: Madison Bank CEO (bank fraud)

Eugene Fitzhugh: Whitewater defendant (multiple bribery)

Charles Matthews: Whitewater defendant (bribery)

Ultimately the Clintons were never charged, but 15 other persons were convicted of more than 40 crimes, including Bill Clinton’s successor as Governor, who was removed from office.[40]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_%28controversy%29#Convictions

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[Carl Vehse]

Not that the University of Missouri at Kansas City was ever a school to suggest to high school students, but now it’s even less.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Not that the University of Missouri at Kansas City was ever a school to suggest to high school students, but now it’s even less.

Boy, it has lots of money for a high school...

[laconic]

Are “college kids” paying this outlandish fee or are the taxpayers? U Missouri is a state funded school.

[montag813]

How is this not a campaign contribution?

[laconic]

For some odd reason I thought the Republicans held the majority in the Missouri Legislature. Why aren’t they deducting the $ 65,000 from the university president’s taxpayer paid salary? Or are they just as ineffective as Boehner and McConnell?