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The speculation over Jay Carney’s post-White House career move can finally subside — he has officially signed on with the Washington Speakers Bureau. Carney confirmed to Politico that he will be hitting the speaker circuit and would also maintain a television presence.
In typical Carney fashion, he declined to comment on other job offers, such as reports that he might be joining Uber’s team.
“I’m just talking to a lot of people about a bunch of potentially interesting things,” Carney stated. “I’m just having conversations.”
Many ex-White House aids choose to take the speaker route while they contemplate their long-term career move. Robert Gibbs, Obama’s first spokesman, earned a reported $2 million from speaking engagements during the first 18 months after leaving the White House. Carney is expected to make about $100,000 per speech. It’s not quite up to the Hillary Clinton standard, but it still makes his $172,000 White House salary look like pocket change.
Carney will join the Washington Speakers Bureau roster alongside the likes of Sarah Palin and George W. Bush. According to his bio on the WSB website, Carney will bring audiences “his insight and extensive credentials in the White House and with TIME magazine in discussing domestic and global current events, the 2014 mid-terms elections, and the race for the White House in 2016.”
They also characterize Carney’s run as Press Secretary as a time when he “faced the world and White House press corps each day with characteristic grace, wit and aplomb.”
We seem to remember it a little differently.
