Update: Palin $100k To Speak At Tea Party Event?
Update: Based upon some forwarded communications, it would appear there was some dissension in this group running the convention and also that Palin is being paid $100k to speak. Obviously, that'sa number and an issue for Palin to resolve, assuming she wishes to. She may opt to not say anything at all. I have no way of knowing and haven't reached back out to any contacts I may have that could speak to it.
This doesn't change my belief that Palin and the grassroots Tea Party efforts are forces for good both now and hopefully in the future. But anytime professional politics gets involved with a genuine grassroots movement, I believe it's a good idea to understand just what's going on and who's pulling the strings. I'm not happy with some things I've seen with the so-called convention, as I've posted before. I suggested back in November that this very thing might alienate her from part of the base.
Some may mind it, some may not. Only time will tell the whole tale. (end update)
I'm hearing through sources Sarah Palin is getting $75k to speak at this Tea Party convention. Can anyone confirm that officially? That's a lot of damned tea. The only acceptable rationale is this is not a grassroots event, as she claimed she wouldn't charge to speak at one of those. Has she ever done that?
I saw via the site they are asking local groups to pony up 10 or 20 bucks an individual to send in their "best" representative. It'll cost them well over a grand altogether with hotel and such, more in many cases unless they drive.
Like I said, probably just another day in American politics.
“The only acceptable rationale is this is not a grassroots event, as she claimed she wouldn’t charge to speak at one of those.”
Dan, it’s $349 for a ticket to the banquet at which SP is speaking: http://tpn.eventbrite.com/?ref=eweb
So I don’t think you could call it a “grassroots event”.
All her paid speaking engagements are handled by The Washington Speaker’s Bureau, so if they don’t list this event she’s probably speaking for free.
My understanding is the cost is/was $100k. Through some big dollar contributors they were able to come up with the first $50k of the speaking fee. I’m pretty confident of these numbers and know many of the people who helped with this deal. The convention planning was a mess and that’s why it’s so expensive. Having it at Opryland Gaylord sucked from a price point. Most of the problems in the initial planning was inexperience working events and then the Tea Party people involved bulldozed ahead without advice from those could have assisted. I live in the area and I’m not going, mostly because I think it’s just too pricey for what you’re getting. Too many egos driving this convention but then I tend to be a contrarion. I’d rather put my dollars to candidates or attending a DC rally than throw it into this convention. I did attend last years CPAC just so you know I’m not against big conferences etc.
Sorry, I forgot to add that I am a big Sarah Palin supporter. I just don’t think I need to pay those kind of dollars to see her speak. I’m all for Sarah making whatever she needs to make on her speaking engagements. This is not a freebie engagement!
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Going Vogue: Palin To Bilk $100k From Tea Party Movement For One Speech
There is a “National Tea Party Convention” set to be held in Nashville, Tennessee from February 4th-6th 2010. The list of sponsors of this event, organized by Tea Party Nation, is a bunch of groups that I would think wold…
Palin is in it for the money, always has been.
She’s only getting $100k to ruin her career? From that moment on, she’s going to be smeared with everything the tea party does, whether it’s acting like baboons and swarming legislators or holding up n-word signs.
The far, far smarter thing for her to do would be to reach for the vast middle of the country, not the Randroid, drama queen, hyperventilating, borderline-insane, “fiscal conservative” fringe. For instance, opposing mass/illegal imm. in a *smart* way could make her a shoo-in overnight. She could use that issue to undercut the corrupt Dem/GOP leadership and show just how little concern they have for Americans.
Instead, she’s consorting with those whose strings are pulled by mass/illegal imm. supporters like Dick Armey. I don’t think she’s anywhere near as corrupt as others; this is just a very, very stupid move.
Learn all about the “partiers” in my extensive coverage:
http://24ahead.com/s/tea-parties
24ahead,
If you’re going to come and make ridiculous accusations and call names the least you can do is offer a solution. Your website sucks by the way. It’s too busy and looks confused, reflection of the owner I guess?
You’re beef is with Dick Armey. Take your complaints to him at Freedomworks. I’m not sold on him either but I’m not trashing a movement because of him.
You also got a bug up your ass about illegal immigration. It isn’t complicated. Drain the swamp. Hammer businesses that hire them and prosecute Mayors of sanctuary cities. Go after anyone who helps people cross the border. Border Agents should have “shoot to kill” ROEs for any drug gangs, coyotes, smugglers and Mexican Army who cross over. Build a damn wall already. Let Sheriff Joe be the model for law enforcement.
My patience is wearing thin with the constant name calling and false accusations. You lost when you resort to “baboons” and made up “n-word signs”. Your motives are suspect. I don’t mind name calling if things get heated but to start off the bat?
By the way you want to know why most Americans are against amnesty. When a bunch of illegals paraded down American streets DEMANDING rights and benefits while carrying flags of their native countries along with pictures of the terrorist Che.
That’s when they lost support. Don’t believe me? Shortly after they had another “rally” complete with Old Glory.
We’re doing illegals a favor by keeping them out. If we make them legit they will be destroyed by the Progressives just like the Blacks have been. Progressives are the biggest BS artists in the world. Islamists have more dignity than they do. At least Islamists say what they mean and don’t candy coat it. And Islamists are scum of the earth.
What “smart” plan do you have? Tell us enlightened one for us red assed “baboons” haven’t evolved like you.
What business is it of any of you what Sarah Palin gets or doesn’t get to give a speech? How about listening to her message instead. She is considered to be the hottest commodity in the political world right now and you can bet there will be a lot of money made from her appearance by the Tea Party movement and other groups as well. She also has nothing to lose by speaking to this group and will not be held accountable because of something the party does later. She is the most inspiring speaker in America and has the most to offer the Tea Party movement. This movement is the biggest political force in my lifetime and I want her to be a part of it.
Dan, you miss the point. Palin will take the 100 grand, pay the Washington Speaker’s Bureau their 10 percent, then put the rest of the cash into SarahPAC. She’s in the middle of the Money Primary with the darling of the Bushtard wing of the Party, teh Mittens. She thinks of this speech as a fundraiser, which it is for her.
What’s the problem? SarahPAC needs the cash to go forward through 2010 and into the campaign-building action in 2011. The notion that you can build a populist political movement without money is a childish fantasy. Get over it.
I think it’s clear to all that SP is too pure and genuine to be in this for the $…right?
I mean, she quit as governor because of her deeply held principles, right?
Even when it appears that maybe, just maybe, she got the money bug a little bit and that all this down to earth ‘aw shucks, i’m just regular person who loves America’ is just a song to sing for the gullible, well there’s folks like section9 who are able to set the record straight.
Obama’s supporters were just a bunch of love-drunk gazers for whom ‘the one’ could do no wrong.
And that would never be the case with fans of Sarah…..right?
(Fair play to Dan for allowing the slim possibility that there’s something untoward about this.)
Whether the $100K (if in fact that is her honorarium) is a bad thing will naturally depend on what she does with it. If she puts it in her personal bank account, that’s bad. If she puts it into electing tea party simpaticos, then it will help the movement. People act like it’s a terrible thing for Palin to raise money. But she’s a pol, and every pol has to raise money because elections cost money. Wait for the tax returns and PAC disclosures before condemning her, Dan.
Hillary will pull off the unthinkable: a democratic primary challenge in 2012, and likely victory against Mitt Romney, the most fieldable GOP candidate (currently).
The pick of Romney is based upon the GOP’s usual practice of picking their candidates more for their seniority and adherence to the Establishment GOP “big tent” party lines (think Rockefeller Republicans/Country Club Republicans, and not the social conservatives or paleo-conservatives)
Sarah Palin, unfortunately will either be a willing and witting partner to the Establishment, while playing the populist, or she will find her populism not sufficient to sway the “Mushy Middle” swing voters who just might find Hillary a beacon of decisiveness and clarity (har!) after Obama’s train-wreck of a government.
What’s the commotion about? Bill Clinton made $40 million over 6 years doing the talking circuit. Palin could well be working on another run for President, and the loony left has saddled her with a ton of legal costs.
If we’ll pay $10 or so to watch a three-hour dramatic rant against our way of life, why should we be worried about Palin being paid for appearances? If nobody came to hear her, she wouldn’t be on the circuit.
Palin’s handlers have made it a practice not to disclose what she is paid for her speaking engagements. That is curious enough in itself. Another little oddity of Palin is when she does allow reporters to be in on her speaking events, the has a list of only those allowed in. Another thing I find hypocritical of both Palin and the tea party is her collecting a $200+k (that’s the closest they would come to disclosing her fee) check for speaking at a government-run hospital fundraiser in Canada when both her and the tea party are the loudest opponents of government-run healthcare. The tea party is well known for selling itself out to the very people and industries they denounce. Tea party organizers recently called upon the president of a coal trade group (Mike Carey) to speak at one of their events. This so-called grassroots event was organized and sponsored by former Senate candidate Gina Loudon, now of the Legacy Group (whose clients and partners include GOP consultant John Hancock, the secretive anti-EFCA SOS Ballot organization and former Senator John Loudon). It’s time people realize the tea party is not an organization on the outside looking it, it is embedded deep on the inside.
If this convention rip-off isn’t enough to open the eyes of the people who send donations to the tea party, maybe the fact that those very donations are being used not only to set up tea party “representatives” at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville for the weekend and to pay the GOP related PR firms and advisors but are also being used for tea party organizers to sue each other over tea party “intellectual rights” and branding.
Palin’s handlers have made it a practice not to disclose what she is paid for her speaking engagements. That is curious enough in itself.
What’s “curious” about it? What f#$king business is it of yours what she gets paid for speaking engagements?
“Another little oddity of Palin is when she does allow reporters to be in on her speaking events, the has a list of only those allowed in.”
No, she doesn’t. Media is either allowed or it’s not. And I don’t consider whackjob slandermongers (one of whom has physically assaulted her in the past) with fever-swamp crackpot blogs “reporters”.
“Another thing I find hypocritical of both Palin and the tea party is her collecting a $200+k (that’s the closest they would come to disclosing her fee) check for speaking at a government-run hospital fundraiser in Canada when both her and the tea party are the loudest opponents of government-run healthcare. The tea party is well known for selling itself out to the very people and industries they denounce.”
The fundraiser is for a childrens’ charity, not government run health care. The venue is irrelevant. Also, do you have any evidence to share with us (other than hearsay from Immoral Minority or MudFlatulence) that she’s getting paid for her appearance there?
“Tea party organizers recently called upon the president of a coal trade group (Mike Carey) to speak at one of their events.”
So what if a coal trade group rep was there? The coal industry is getting raped by the government just like the rest of us.
“This so-called grassroots event was organized and sponsored by former Senate candidate Gina Loudon, now of the Legacy Group (whose clients and partners include GOP consultant John Hancock, the secretive anti-EFCA SOS Ballot organization and former Senator John Loudon). It’s time people realize the tea party is not an organization on the outside looking it, it is embedded deep on the inside.”
I think you’re confused.
“If this convention rip-off isn’t enough to open the eyes of the people who send donations to the tea party, maybe the fact that those very donations are being used not only to set up tea party “representatives” at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville for the weekend and to pay the GOP related PR firms and advisors but are also being used for tea party organizers to sue each other over tea party “intellectual rights” and branding.”
Once again, allegations with no evidence.
FOAD moby.
CNN is reporting she is NOT getting Paid.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
From the CNN article: “A Palin confidante said the governor is not being paid to speak at the event.”
Who would that be, Jessica Steele, Palin’s hairdresser? “JessicaBeehive”, who earlier this week along with redneck Alaska talk show host Eddie Burke started up a Palin Facebook-promoted campaign to harass the Alaska judges charged with the custody battle between Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin.
All of Palin’s people who are authorized to speak for Palin are called “spokespeople”, not “confidantes”. Palin controls her public message very strictly, and “confidantes” don’t speak publically.
In other words, I think CNN just got played.
In case anyone else dozed off before USMC’s 3rd paragraph, he suggested shooting some border crossers; that’s the type of people we’re dealing with. They just don’t get it; they fail to realize how that would be not just morally wrong but counter-productive. The rest of his 3rd para is a wish, not a plan. I have plans – i.e., realistic steps to get things done with each step building on the last – the problem is that I can’t get any help with them.
The tea party mindset is that shown by USMC, and it’s not a good one at all.
>What’s “curious” about it? What f#$king business is it of yours what >she gets paid for speaking engagements?
When you put yourself into the political public spotlight you make it everyone’s business.
>No, she doesn’t. Media is either allowed or it’s not
It’s not allowed for her speech for the teabaggers at their convention in Nashville. (http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2009/11/24/no-press-allowed-to-see-palin-speech-at-the-opryland-tea-party-convention/)
>The fundraiser is for a childrens’ charity, not government run health >care
Wrong again. You’re batting 1000 slugger. Juravinski Cancer Centre and St. Peter’s Hospital in Canada is a public hospital within the national Canadian healthcare system. As far as her being paid – it has been confirmed by both the organizers of the event and her own handlers.
>Once again, allegations with no evidence.
Ha! Once again you are without clue. It’s not like it takes more than a couple working brain cells to google this stuff but since that task seems to be beyond your ability to handle…
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/11/palin-canada-hospital/
Not that giving you real sources to real information is going to do any good. People like you will never acknowledge facts if they do not fit your view of how things should be.
Oh, I almost forgot…
>>tea party organizers to sue each other over tea party “intellectual rights” and branding.”
>Once again, allegations with no evidence.
Are you just stupid or lazy? Google this stuff man, it’s all over the place.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1109/The_Tea_Party_lawsuit.html
Start there, there’s HUNDREDS of sources reporting on this.
They are getting her cheap.
In April, she is speaking at a FUNDRAISER for some hospitals in Canada; you know, Socialist hospitals? These perform abortions AND offer end of life counseling! She is getting paid $200,000 (as reported) for this.
So, for enough money, Sarah will speak anywhere. (this particular event had to change the beneficiary of the fundraiser, when Canadians objected to Sarah Palin being paid to speak about something she has maligned.)
But .. she took the $$$ anyway.
http://www.archivist1000.blogspot.com
1st it’s somewhat sexist to talk about how much she gets paid for these events.
2nd Who cares if she gets paid?
3rd Capitalism is Boss
Posted by: Smack on the Web | Thursday, January 07, 2010 at 09:02 PM
LOL, you use Think Progress as a source and expect me to take you seriously? ROFLMAO!!! But really, thanks. Now I know you’re just a moby douchebag and I won’t bother responding to your nonsense anymore. LOL
Surprise??? She quit the Governors job to avoid additional ethics investigations and to “get her millions.”
EVERYTHING she does now is to advance her personal fortune, PERIOD! Anyone who thinks differently is just deluding themselves and contributing to more debilitating partisanship! I laugh at the rationalizations I am reading about the $550 ticket price and the $100K speaking fee!!
To her use of well entrenched Washington Insiders for the purpose of directing her financial mission, to her inability to articulate ANY form of political policy (we definitely need someone in leadership that doesn’t understand the reason for a North and South Korea), it is amazing the clueless nature her followers subscribe.
Since 2007, she has actively engaged the “liberal media” through her D.C. representatives!! She was working the back rooms of D.C. as early as 2007 in order to get her name in the mix, hiring a P.R. firm out of Boston.
All I know for sure is if she weighed 300 lbs. she would NEVER be in the situation she is in today…Sorry, but our political future is not a beauty pageant…
Interesting…So what the Con strategist is saying in the quote below is Palin is doing Politics as usual? Got it…So what makes her different is she does the same???
“She thinks she’s coming to endorse the tea party movement, but most tea party people won’t be there because they can’t afford it,” said Anthony Shreeve, an East Tennessee tea party organizer who quit the convention’s steering committee. “The tea party movement is a grass-roots movement; it’s not a business, he said.
But Greg Mueller, a veteran conservative political consultant, was more sympathetic. “She’s in demand as a best-selling author, a former governor and a former GOP VP candidate and is capitalizing on that demand while she decides what’s next for her,” said Mueller. “She is doing nothing different than former Vice President [Al] Gore, former President Clinton, and former Joint Chiefs [of Staff] Chairman Colin Powell, who are just a few that come to mind who have taken similar paths.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31409.html#ixzz0cc4GgH9A