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Posted on 08/26/2010 9:28:15 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Lawmakers Want To Know How Much CSU Stanislaus Is Paying For Sarah Palin Visit
SACRAMENTO - The California State University Foundation has released its contract with former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin that shows the speaker's request as well as compensation for a fundraiser dinner conducted in June.
According to the contract released Thursday afternoon, Palin was compensated $75,000 to appear at the event and requested two bottles of "unopened still water" with "bendable straws" placed "in or near the wooden lectern." A private plane, more specifically a Lear 60 jet, was required for Palin under the contract, though the contract allowed for CSU Stanislaus to instead fly Palin and another person first-class on a commercial aircraft between Anchorage and Turlock.
Palin said during her fundraiser event that the "lamestream" media erroneously reported her requests in exchange for the speaking engagement, which included the straws and the water.
The contract also stated media would be permitted to cover Palin's speaking engagement and would be allowed to videotape the first three minutes of her speech. FOX40 was the only station permitted to broadcast Palin's entire speech from an auxiliary room with newspaper reporters, though the contract did not specifically allow for this provision.
Palin's hotel accomodations were made at the Doubletree Hotel in Modesto, according to the contract.
According to a press release issued by the school last month, the university brought in $473,000 from Palin's appearance, with $207,000 in net proceeds.
Senator Leland Yee led a fact-finding mission to uncover how much the school was spending on Palin's appearance and whether or not the money from that payment was coming from public funds.
The controversy came to a peak when a CSU Stanislaus student, now credited as a whistleblower, found shredded documents related to Palin's appearance after the school refused to disclose how much the university was spending on her appearance.
The documents were found shredded inside a dumpster adjacent to the school's administrative building 48 hours after Senator Leland Yee questioned how much the school was spending to bring the former Alaskan Governor to the school for a fundraiser.
Among the shredded documents included the contract between the school and Palin. According to Yee, the documents reveal clues that the school spent nearly $100,000 in travel, meal, accommodations and other expenses for Palin's visit.
According to a document released last month, CSU Stanislaus spent $75,000 in guest speaker fees relating to Sarah Palin's appearance and more than $30,000 in payment to the Modesto and Turlock police departments for security the night of the event. An additional $42,000 was spent in event decorations, $30,000 was spent to cater the event and $80,000 was spent printing programs and contributing to other entertainment-related expenses.
I don’t get it...most of this was already news months ago...nothing to see here
I want to know what she has against straws that don’t bend..she is a straw that doesn’t bend hater LOL
Shocking!!! The school MADE MONEY on the event? How, how, CAPITALISTIC!!!! Is there no shame?
I have an inside source close to Palin that claims Palin also requests Splenda with her iced tea.
Maniacal.
She showed up many more times and the students might get an idea that they too could earn money and make a profit. Try keeping them in the collective after that!
Where in the heck has Fox40 been, this is really old news?
Sounds like they got a real bargain. Wish I could make those sort of returns :).
It is? Someone else said that, too. Didn’t the university just release the contract today?
That’s nothing. I would’ve required loopy straws in cool-aid
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I wonder how much money was wasted ‘investigating’ this non-story?
suck it up, she may likely be worth it said and done.
The documents were found shredded inside a dumpster adjacent to the school's administrative building 48 hours after Senator Leland Yee questioned how much the school was spending to bring the former Alaskan Governor to the school for a fundraiser.
I am more interested in who was paid to go "dumpster diving" and how much they were paid, and by whom.
ZOMG!!! Splenda!!!! That’s it, I will never listen to her again.
These lamestream nuts will try to make even normal requests look suspicious by the tone they use.
//sarc
Old news. Already investigated and they found nothing.
YAWN . . . .
TWO bottles of water
Bendy straws
Staying at a Doubletree...
Clearly she has lost touch with the real America and is living an opulent lifestyle that shows her contempt for working people. She and Todd will be moving to The Hamptons, and announcing they are veegans any day now.
And what gives with “Unopened water” what, she cant open the water herself LOL..Im telling ya this kinda stuff is hysterical..liberals truly have NO life
Rumor has it they gave her a sweatshirt too. Big media is really uncovering corruption.
Pray for America
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