Tea partiers shell out big bucks for Palin

[Randall Flagg]

Source: Yahoo

Sarah Palin’s appearance early next month at the first tea party movement’s convention in Nashville, Tenn., has stirred controversy in conservative circles over her reported decision to charge a substantial fee.

Palin’s aides and conference organizers won’t comment on financial arrangements, but documents obtained by POLITICO reveal the going rate for the former Alaska governor: $100,000 a speech, with a discount to $75,000 for West Coast appearances. Palin has reportedly waived the fee for some charitable events, but what’s billed as a meeting of the grass-roots conservative movement is not among those.

Tickets for the Nashville event run $549, plus a $9.95 fee, while separate tickets to see only Palin cost $349. Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee are also scheduled to speak at the three-day conference at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center.

Palin’s speech will be closed to the press. Conference organizer Sherry Phillips confirmed to POLITICO that, unlike some of the events with other speakers, reporters will not be permitted to be in the room.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100112/pl_politico/31409

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Just a good old grass roots movement at $559.00 a head plus travel. I am beginning to feel the teabaggers are some kind if strange Ira Levin Boys From Brazil plot coupled with the DNA of Nero and Hermann Goering.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. What's the $9.95 fee? De-lousing after being cooped up with all that vermin?

[peekaloo]

20. shipping and handling

of all the cow shit they'll need to freshen up the place after the event.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. It goes to the medical costs for the people taking the bookings

They tend to pull muscles laughing so hard at the gullibility of the tea baggers.

[MercutioATC]

2. Palin and Bachmann under the same roof?

Talk about a critical mass of stupid.

Sounds dangerous to me.

[gateley]

3. I wonder if that will piss off some of the baggers who wanted to hear their

savior speak -- but they can't afford it.

[Xipe Totec]

4. It's a bargain

We should encourage all teabaggers to pay for it...

[tanyev]

5. SHOW! ME! THE! MONEY!

[PearliePoo2]

13. In this picture above...what's with her ear?

It looks all lumpy, pointed and like it has a rash or something going on. WTF?
Are her ears always this unattractive?

[Robb]

6. Heh. That's almost Clinton money. nt

[No Elephants]

15. Yes, but with Clinton, a brain is included in in the price. With Palin, you get only a mouth.

[Randall Flagg]

17. That's a lot for a BJ...

:)

[Bitwit1234]

7. So this is a grass roots organization????

Where in the devil did they get the money to pay Palin her big bonus. Where, because we all know who is backing them and it sure as heck ain't no grass roots organization.

[caseymoz]

8. She sure knows how to strangle a run for the presidency.

Certainly the price for telling people what they want to hear has gone up enormously these days.

[msongs]

9. it's the NEW Klan and dems should call it what it is...but they won't nt

[Tx4obama]

10. Tonight Palin said...

Tonight Palin said on O'Reilly that "she is not 'personally' profiting from the Teaparty Convention".

But she DID NOT say: that she wasn't charging a speaking fee. She NEVER said that she would be speaking for free. NEVER.

My guess is that she is having the Teabaggers give her check to her PAC and then she will dole out the money to people she owes favors to or to the campaigns other other people that she can get publicity from.

Palin is a snake in the grass! Although a dimwit snake a snake all the less ;)

[tblue37]

22. No doubt some of that money will be laundered through Bristol Palin's

new political consultant business.

[XemaSab]

11. And I thought $75 was a ripoff

:o

[BP2]

12. Let the idiots waste their money. It will eat up the

dollars they can contribute this autumn.

[No Elephants]

16. My thoughts, too.

[katkat]

14. So what, Bill Clinton gets zillions for speeches

par for the course.

[gratuitous]

19. Let's see, two term President of the United States

Nearly half term governor of the most sparsely populated state in the union.

Rhodes scholar.

Bachelor's degree of questionable accreditation.

Known and respected all over the world.

Can see Russia when Putin rears his head over the North Pole.

Seems like a bit of a disparity in qualifications, but by this "logic," I deserve Lebron James level money and an NBA contract. Par for the course, you know.

[MineralMan]

18. Here's the only way they'll fill the hall for Palin:

LIVE SEX SHOW!

Watch Palin & Bachmann Get It On LIVE!

Just $395!

Stadium Seating