Now what was that about about being “dead broke” again?
Just when you thought likely 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton couldn’t get more outrageous, even more proof comes out about her ridiculously sky high speaking fees.
The Washington Post obtained emails this week outlining the demands by Clinton’s camp for the former secretary of state to speak at UCLA.
Clinton requested $300,000 for her speaking fee and the school asked if they could get a reduced rate since they are a publicly funded institution.
That is the “special university rate,” Clinton’s representatives replied, according to the Post.
Once the exorbitant fee was settled, Clinton’s representatives began outlining every single detail of the night from pre-speech snacks to the color of the chairs.
After a lengthy call with a Clinton representative, UCLA administrator Patricia Lippert reported to campus colleagues, “She uses a lavalier [microphone] and will both speak from the audience and walk around stage, TED talk style. We need a teleprompter and 2-3 downstage scrolling monitors [for] her to read from.”
During a walk-through of Royce Hall five days before the lecture, the e-mails show, Clinton’s team rejected the podium planned for her use during her 20- to 30-minute speech, setting off a scramble on campus to find a suitable podium and rent a new university seal to match…
Her representatives asked for a case of still water, room temperature, to be deposited stage right. They also asked that “a carafe of warm/hot water, coffee cup and saucer, pitcher of room temperature water, water glass, and lemon wedges” be situated both on a table on stage as well as in another room where Clinton would stand for photos with VIPs.
For the green room, Clinton’s representatives requested: “Coffee, tea, room temp sparkling and still water, diet ginger ale, crudité, hummus and sliced fruit.” They also asked for a computer, mouse and printer, as well as a scanner, which the university had to purchase for the occasion.”
Clinton also requested special privileges for the awarding of the UCLA medal, an honor which the school planned to bestow on her, demanding that it only be given in a box and not draped around her neck.
Clinton has recently received a lot of criticism for her high-priced demands and ridiculous fees for taxpayer-funded university speaking gigs.
But it seems the criticism has fallen on deaf ears and Clinton is laughing all the way to the bank.
