ok… I get it.
After realizing that her own state legislature (even her own party) had completely lost confidence in her, (coupled with the fact that she was caught red-handed on dozens of occasions taking her family on expensive trips (at state expense), Sarah Palin decided to call it quits as Governor of Alaska.
And her new job? Anti-Obama one liner ROCK STAR!
Students at CSU Stanislaus got a hold of the contract with Palin for her speaking engagement there. (The link contains the whole document)
She normally gets at least 100k per engagement, but CSUS reportedly got a bargain at 75k!
She also demands (among other things):
- Pre-screened questions. (And a pre-screened ASKER of the questions). She clearly could not handle a non-screened question.
- A Lear Jet (Lear 60 or larger) (or First Class Airfare from Anchorage, at HER discretion)
- 3 hotel rooms (one of them a suite)
I am ALL for capitalism, and Mrs. Palin has EVERY right to market herself and make any demands she likes. (Even pre-screened questions). However, as the the California Attorney General, Jerry Brown (the man responsible for exposing the James O’Keefe/Pimp fraud) pointed out, why are California taxpayers footing the bill for this nonsense?
CSU Stanislaus has responded that the money has come from a private foundation (not State University funds), and that they expect to raise between $100k and $200k. Ok. Fair enough. If raising money to support the University is the goal, then more power to the foundation, Mrs. Palin (and her private jets and multiple hotel rooms), and the university.
However, if the goal is to provide a conservative point of view to the political discussion at the university, why not bring in someone who understands the issues, and doesn’t require pre-screened questions? (Just saying)
Almost daily we listen to her trash talk (she is in the Quayle and “W” league), all thanks to the man who now claims that he never called himself a maverick, McCain, right, tell us another. She spends her days trash talking it is only fitting that someone found a great place for her contract. You know she is a VP silver metal winner. I guess some dumpster diving found it, All’s Well That Ends Well.