Hillary Clinton has made several trips to San Francisco in the past year, with all of them costing the city’s police department more than $21,000 in extra expenses—including more than $10,000 for a single event with Nancy Pelosi.
A number of public records requests by the GOP opposition research firm America Rising reveal the San Francisco police department incurred extra expenses directly related to speeches given by Clinton in 2014. In April, for instance, the former first lady and secretary of state spoke to the Marketing Nation Summit at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The police reported $4,191.72 in added expenses, including overtime for department personnel. Clinton also spoke at an August summit for software company Nexenta, costing the San Francisco police force $1,539.95.
Clinton returned to San Francisco twice in October, the first time to speak to Salesforce, a cloud computing company. That visit cost the city’s police department $5,344.21 in expenses. The CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, and his wife Lynne have each donated the maximum $25,000 to the Ready for Hillary PAC and, according to MSNBC, has “partnered” with the Clinton Foundation in the past.
Her final trip this year to the City by the Bay came in late October, when Clinton headlined a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee along with House minority leader Nancy Pelosi. From October 19 to October 20, the day of the fundraising event, the San Francisco police department incurred $10,055.66, including more than $6,000 in overtime expenses.
Read a summary of the public records requests here. It’s not clear from the requests how much of these expenses to the city are reimbursed by Clinton’s speaking hosts.
