Ask that Hillary Clinton release transcripts of her "speeches" to Goldman Sachs, et. al.

[99th_Monkey]

According to public disclosures, by giving just 12 speeches to Wall Street banks, private equity firms, and other financial corporations, Clinton made $2,935,000 from 2013 to 2015:

Ameriprise - $225,000
Apollo Mgmt. Holdings - $225,000
Bank of America - $225,000
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce - $150,000
Deutsche Bank - $485,000
Fidelity Investments - $225,000
Gold Tree Asset Management - $275,000
Goldman Sachs - $675,000
Morgan Stanley - $225,000
UBS - $225,000

So these "speeches" that Hillary gave to Wall St. firms were closed to the public and to the media. Which begs the question: what exactly is Hillary telling these huge banks that is so "valuable" to them? Why can't voters know what Hillary is telling the big banks?

Hillary claims she told them to "Cut it out!". Is that what she REALLY said to them in her speeches? If so, why are the transcripts secret, and why are the banks greasing Hillary's palms with millions of dollars to tell them that?

I think the voting public has a right to know what the fuck Hillary is saying to these "too big to fail, to big to jail" banks.

Don't you?

[Broward]

1. This is a great idea.

[wendylaroux]

2. It really is

[Skwmom]

3. You would trust what was released to be the actual speech given?

I don't.

[cascadiance]

5. Might not, but she'd then be on record with them...

... and if she's found to have distorted them, like perhaps she may have distorted the security level of emails on her private server, then that will haunt her later.

[99th_Monkey]

8. Good point. But if she lies about that too, it could easily get exposed

if some rogue 'anonymous' bank exec. decides to spill the beans, who was at one of the speeches.

[Skwmom]

25. I'm not so sure about that. Look how LONG she's drug out the email stuff. n/t

[Jarqui]

4. Anyone know how to get a petition going/

[99th_Monkey]

17. I was wondering about that too.

Who would the petition be TO? Hillary's Campaign? The DNC? To the Banks?

I was trying to visualize who it would be addressed to, and was kind of coming up blank.

But I'm definitely open to ideas. However, I don't know how to get a petition jump started personally,
but i think maybe MoveOn.org might be interested, or one of the other progressive groups that has
endorsed Bernie.

[Pharaoh]

29. FOIA maybe

y

[Agschmid]

56. Nope.

[Bread and Circus]

31. Start a Facebook group or something? Is there such a thing? I don't know.

[SamKnause]

6. I questioned that very thing here on Monday.

I asked if there were transcripts or videos of her speeches available.

I think the voters definitely have the right to know what she is selling

in those speeches.

[99th_Monkey]

9. I may have stolen this from you. I don't recall if it was you or not

but I did pick this up 1-2 days ago from a prior DU discussion.

[SamKnause]

16. You didn't steal anything.

I was posting about it on Monday.

Feel free to keep bringing it up here and everywhere else.

I think we have the right to know what she is being paid to say.

If she is representing the banks and Wall Street this should be an

automatic disqualification.

[Voice for Peace]

41. Also been posting this on FB and msg to Bernie's campaign.

After the fallout from Mitt's 47% remark, people want and deserve to know.

[SamKnause]

46. Great. Thanks !!!

[99th_Monkey]

126. I hope you 2 saw todays Intercept (Lee Fang) popped our question to Hillary re Transcripts.

Her answer was "Ha-Ha-Ha" (abruptly pivots left to next person in crowd) "oh hello, how are you?"
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/23/clinton-goldman-sachs-laugh/

Then murmur posted an OP about it this morning
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1051564

I'm loving how our posts reverberated and percolated up right into the lap of The Intercept.
I'm also loving how Bernistas are supporting each other toward our common goal, with insights,
reflections and good humor.

PS - I'm also sending this message to Voice For Peace, who was our co-consirator.

[SamKnause]

128. Thanks so much for the update.

[99th_Monkey]

127. I hope you 2 saw todays Intercept (Lee Fang) popped our question to Hillary re Transcripts.

Her answer was "Ha-Ha-Ha" (abruptly pivots left to next person in crowd) "oh hello, how are you?"
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/23/clinton-goldman-sachs-laugh/

Then murmur posted an OP about it this morning
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1051564

I'm loving how our posts reverberated and percolated up right into the lap of The Intercept.
I'm also loving how Bernistas are support each other toward our common goal, with insights,
reflections and good humor.

PS - I'm also sending this message to SamKnause, who was our co-consirator.

[Voice for Peace]

130. I did! "Haha" isn"t an adequate answer. We must ask again.

And agsin. Until everybody is wodering why not?
Thanks!

[99th_Monkey]

131. It's going to be interesting how this plays out over next few weeks

Last edited Sat Jan 23, 2016, 05:25 PM - Edit history (1)

1) will "the question" somehow insinuate it's way into Mondays CNN Town Hall?
Sadly, rather doubtful, given who's running the show that night.

2) Hillary people argue that the speeches were innocuous and un-noteworthy ..
something about being "only to clients", and speeches "only about world affairs
to enlighten emerging entrepreneurs". and who knows? Maybe they are. But
I kind of doubt it.

3) The more widely "the question" seeps onto the airwaves, there's always a
possibility of some random waiter or janitor having clandestine footage of one
of these closed-door/no-press events; like happened to Romney.

4) If Hillary phonies-up fake transcripts, while claiming to be ponying-up the
real deal, then #3 happens, that would spell the end of her campaign.

Well, I can dream, can't I?

[Voice for Peace]

132. #3 is quite feasible

Even if there"s no recording... At the very least voters will be wondering.

[thereismore]

7. Now that would be revealing. I bet she will invoke some employer-employee confidentiality bullshit.

After all, she works for them and the speeches were not for us plebeians.

[99th_Monkey]

11. At the very least, I think it would rock Hills back on her heals, and give voters something

to wonder about. "hmmm .. yah what was in those speeches?"

[think]

13. True. They should wonder about them. Or at least know the speeches and payments occurred.

[global1]

14. But She's Running For The Highest Office In The Land.....

don't us plebeians that she is asking to vote for her - have the right to know?

[thereismore]

15. I may have forgotten the sarcasm smilie. nt

[Kall]

48. We don't have $300,000 to pay

We're not worthy of the insights into the field of high finance Hillary Clinton gave the people in high finance.

[awake]

10. I am sure all of those Businesses wrote off the payments to Hillary as a expense

there for getting the taxpayers to help foot some of the cost by reducing the taxes that the Business pay and meaning the rest of us pick up the difference. just another example of "crony capitalism" or "welfare for the rich".

[spin]

20. Buying politicians is a common business expense today. ...

Even Donald Trump admits he played that game.

Donald Trump's Surprisingly Honest Lessons About Big Money in Politics
By JILL ORNIT and ZRYAN STRUYK
Aug 11, 2015, 3:09 PM ET

It’s no secret that Donald Trump is rich. And it's no surprise that money influences politics.

But few political candidates -- let alone presidential contenders -- speak about it with as much candor and openness as Donald Trump.

Over the course of his campaign so far, Trump has unashamedly made a string of under-the-radar comments about using political donations to call in favors with politicians while they are in office.

“I will tell you that our system is broken,” Trump said on stage in Thursday's GOP candidates' debate. “I gave to many people before this -- before two months ago I was a businessman. I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what, when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them. They are there for me. That's a broken system.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-surprisingly-honest-lessons-big-money-politics/story?id=32993736

The system is broken. Bernie realizes it.

[think]

12. That will never happen....

[99th_Monkey]

19. Voters' curious minds want to know, what is Hillary hiding?

Of course Hillary will stonewall and ignore any such request, but I couldn't help visualizing
what that might look like.

[think]

23. Bad answer on my part. Meant that her releasing any transcript from those speeches

Will never happen.

Demanding that she does release transcripts might actually stir voters to think about it and actually even know these events occurred. I'm sure many good people are unaware these speeches for mega bucks even took place.

[99th_Monkey]

24. My thoughts exactly. Thanks for clarifying.

I'm not sure Bernie himself should raise this, or he'll be accused again of "breaking his word"; but
asking to see a copy of the speeches would, certainly get people thinking and wondering. and would
raise awareness that these "speeches" even took place.

[bvar22]

80. I have no doubt that hard copies plus video is available at the Big Banks.

All we need is one Snowden or a Deep Throat whose patriotism exceeds loyalty to a cut throat corporation and RICH bosses. We could establish a bounty for the first Bank Employee who suddenly feels a conscience....for several $MILLION Dollars, and hands this stuff over.
There MUST be a "disgruntled" employee somewhere.

[restorefreedom]

18. my guess is that copy had a prompt visit

to a shredder. there will be no transcripts.

then again, maybe a cloth wiped them off hillary's hard drive...

[99th_Monkey]

21. LOL - Ahh .. yes Hillary's "cloth" is getting quite a work-out. nt

[restorefreedom]

22. must be threadbare by now! nt

[Duval]

26. A very good idea!

[bvf]

27. The only way anyone not a bankster will ever get an inkling

of this will be if someone with a conscience and a videocam does what's required.

[morningfog]

28. Wouldn't that be something? Like bush saying, "I call you my base."

And Romney's 47%.

Maybe some lowly service worker secretly recorded some speech and will provide a public service by releasing it.

One thing is for sure, she did not talk to them about income inequality, criminal justice or women's rights.

[Jack Rabbit]

30. I wonder if they're as good as the Nixon tapes or the Romeny video

Perhaps they'll show her saying "cut it out" and joining the attendees in maniacal laughter.

[TIME TO PANIC]

32. If they demand Bernie's medical records, why not?

Sounds fair to me.

[avaistheone1]

33. Brilliant!

That would certainly tell voters whose side Hillary is on. (And I don't think it is on our side.)

[tomm2thumbs]

34. Make sure they include all the 'wink wink' notations in the borders

Like when saying 'Cut it out!' (wink, wink)

[JDPriestly]

35. K&R. Full disclosure. We want to know where she really stands on the

economy and Wall Street.

Or did she just talk about the importance of giving to charity???

[Helen Borg]

36. No, no!

The awesomeness of those speeches may be quite dangerous.

[raindaddy]

37. Too bad there's not anyone out there who might've recorded one of those speeches on their cell

Remeber Romney's video?

[JTFrog]

38. And her birth certificate too!!!11!!

[Voice for Peace]

39. Big k&r

If the Sanders campaign would make this request, on bejalf of primary voters who DESERVE to know before we vote, the response alone would be helpful.

[Uncle Joe]

42. Kicked and recommended for exposing $cars.

Thanks for the thread, 99th_Monkey.

[dlwickham]

43. she's a private citizen when she made those speeches

she wasn't running for anything

thus, it's none of anyone's business what she said in those speeches except for the people who paid to hear her

keep on with that faux outrage at her making money

[TryLogic]

47. They are funding her campaign. Her husband has perfected quid pro quo politics.

It is about corruption.

[99th_Monkey]

50. Well, it's not like these 'speeches' were to the Audubon Society or the Girl Scouts

These were speeches to the same pack of greed-heads who crashed our economy, got bailed out, and
have become even bigger than they were in 2007/8 <-- they were 'too big to fail' then, now it's worse.

And now this 'private citizen' is running for the President of the United States of America, saying she's
"going to reign-in Wall St." You don't think voters have a right to know what Hillary said to these banks,
Banks & Financiers who made her an instant multimillionaire for a few speeches?

And you think it's "none of their (voters) business"? I disagree.

[dlwickham]

54. you're allowed to disagree

wonderful thing about this country

[noamnety]

68. Do you feel that way about Trump's business dealings?

Or do you think they might be relevant to deciding what kind of president he might be?

[nc4bo]

44. I wonder if those speeches would sound simikar to Rmoney's 47%

comments?

I Would. Not. Doubt. It.

[murielm99]

45. Go ahead and demand it.

Let Bernie do so, too. Look like petulant fools.

[Marty McGraw]

92. those little

petulant peon folk. pfffft.... look at their silly scamper.

[keithbvadu2]

49. Then they can 'loan' the speeches to Cruz.

[shireen]

51. those fee amounts are nauseating

How many of us make that much money in a year? Or two years? Or a decade? She gets these huge chunks of cash for spending a couple of hours with outrageously wealthy sociopaths who don't appreciate the value of a single dollar.

The astronomical disparity in wealth within our society is sickening. That fee list really drives it home.

[harun]

67. Have to agree with you. Is there any other Democrat whose done anything close to this?

[grasswire]

52. K&R

What is the best avenue for us to make that request, do you think?

[FairWinds]

53. Could not help but notice the Cubs logo Mr. murielm99

Rahm, is that you ?

Gotta be, what with that obnoxious name calling and all . .

[murielm99]

117. Bye, obnoxious one.

[pinebox]

55. Tweeted, thanks!

[99th_Monkey]

61. Thank you for tweeting.

I'm not on twitter, so that's really cool that you put it out there on Twitterverse.

I'm a hopeless Luddite, lucky to navigate my MacBook Pro.

[Live and Learn]

57. K&R Really great idea. nt

[glinda]

58. Petition anywhere?

[99th_Monkey]

59. I wish.

Who would the petition be addressed TO? The Hillary Campaign? or?

[glinda]

63. To her.

[99th_Monkey]

64. Do you know how to start a petition?

I've never done that before. Wouldn't know where to start.

[glinda]

75. Here...someone do this....

Just keep it simple and say "we the undersigned request the immediate release of the Clinton speeches" etc...etc.....
https://www.change.org/start-a-petition?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GST_USER_INDIA_SCHT1_start_petition&creative=48113927143&keyword=%2Bstart%20a%20%2Bpetition&matchtype=b&network=g&device=c

[99th_Monkey]

78. Looks like a DUer already started a MoveOn.org petition, just now...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1046856

But no link to it yet. I did request for the link to be posted under this OP, so i don't miss it.

[merkins]

60. Shades of Dick Chenry's Energy Task Force

[mhatrw]

62. What did she promise them and when did she promise it? nt

[dreamnightwind]

65. K & R, perhaps the Sanders campaign will run with this idea?

Anyone connected to them that can make this suggestion?

[99th_Monkey]

69. I hope Team Bernie at least considers this, as the race tightens

The who and when part is important. Timing is everything.

[Duppers]

66. Any thinking person should be wondering about this.

Great idea!

[Hoppy]

70. I just started a MoveOn petiton on this.

[99th_Monkey]

76. Whoa! Really? Can you post a link under this OP when you get one??

so I don't miss it, I want to sign.

[glinda]

120. link???

[tinkerbelle]

71. Absolutely right!

We should be able to see what she's been telling them. Seems completely relevant to the election.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

72. would be interesting to read

[SHRED]

73. Bernie can use this

What would be the downside? He could ask her to release the transcripts.

[jalan48]

74. And that's it ladies and gentlemen-Sold! To the highest bidder.

[CoffeeCat]

77. O.....M.....G

I had no idea that she made *that much* money from speaking fees!

Speaking fees?

Wow, that is...nutty.

I'm so done with her. Don't care how she justifies this. I don't even want to hear her explain it.

Who would believe the transcript if she did release it? She's a liar and she's in Tasmanian devil mode in her campaign.

Really, who cares.

[Marty McGraw]

93. corporate interest bearing

Laundering. Simple as that. Same thing with superpac money being funneled all to the media outlets back into the very hands that funded the superpacs in the first place fleecing some unknowing nitwits (that donate to them) along the way.

all that absurd excess they pay for her speeches will pay back multi-fold if she would be anointed .

[MariaThinks]

79. do you hate trump more than Hillary?

[kjones]

81. What would you guys do if she released her birth cert....er, I mean transcripts...

[99th_Monkey]

83. Apples & Oranges much?

FAIL

[kjones]

95. Nah, just 'potayto' & 'potahto'

both are manufactured outrage.
If it was a game you wanted to play though, I'm sure we could
scrounge up tons of things to ask Bernie to release and be
fake pissed about.

[99th_Monkey]

96. Like his medical records? n/t

[kjones]

106. Well, for Bernie, it's hard enough to get simple policy details out of him...

Shouldn't all candidates release health information?

Boy, I remember how ferociously people around here
barked for McCain to release his medical information.
It was an applause line here.
And sure, the skin cancer was a concern, but man,
the calls for his psychiatric record, they were
downright vicious.

[99th_Monkey]

109. Not agist much? groan.

Actually I think Bernie is releasing some kind of letter attesting to his good health.
and I have no problem with that actually. but it was a not-so-subtle attack on his
age, which was unseemly.

[kjones]

111. Personally, on the first on the list of disclosures I'd like to see from candidates is...

the name of Trump's hairpiece manufacture.

Ugly as hell, but one has to admire the construction
and the resiliency with which it holds its own against
gravity. That level of protection and use of space
age materials is exactly what our future martian
astronauts should be outfitted in.




I think a letter is just fine, btw, though I was
never part of the call for it.

[Orsino]

82. Sounds good. n/t

[kennetha]

84. Here's a more comprehensive list, some with video. I imagine they were all pretty much the same.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-12/the-very-valuable-words-of-hillary-clinton

[99th_Monkey]

85. I see NONE of Hillary's speeches to the Banksters listed in the OP. None.

Here's some reading for you though, written by a former Wall St. exec. who pretty much
tells it like it is, about the nature of Hillary's "speeches' so Wall St.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-r-talbott/why-wall-street-gives-mil_b_9049992.html

[kennetha]

86. Really? Can't you read?

Oct. 29, 2013: Builders and Innovators Summit at Goldman Sachs ($200,000)
Oct. 27, 2013: Beth El Synagogue National Speaker Series in St. Louis Park
Oct. 25, 2013: Colgate University in Colgate, NY
Oct. 24, 2013: AIMS Alternative Investment Conference at Goldman Sachs ($200,000)

[99th_Monkey]

87. They are LISTED yes. I see NO videos/transcripts of what she's been telling the Banksters. NONE.

which is the whole point of the OP to which you are replying.

Simply saying "they are all pretty much the same" as what she says at a university speech
is either naive or disingenuous.

[kennetha]

88. No there aren't videos of all of them.

But there are videos of various of them. I doubt that the ones for which there aren't videos are radically different from the one's for which there are videos.

[99th_Monkey]

89. Again. NO videos/transcripts of what she's been telling the Banksters. NONE.

Which is the whole point of the OP to which you are replying.

Simply saying "they are all pretty much the same" as what she says at some random
university speech is either naive or disingenuous.

[kennetha]

90. Well, actually...

I think you're the one being naive or disingenuous.

For one thing, the Goldman Sachs events, for example, were annual conferences for Goldman Sachs CLIENTS -- not employees, not executives, not investors. But probably you hate them all and think they all are evil

The particular clients at these two events were financial advisors in the one case and entrepreneurs and innovators in the other case. The one conference is devoted to "the latest strategies and products available to financial advisers" the other conference is devoted to "discussing entrepreneurship and how to help innovators expand and grow their businesses."

But I suppose you're opposed to politicians who are willing to talk to entrepreneurs and innovators or to people who offer others financial advice for a living. I suppose you think they only serve "the billionaire class" against which your man loves to rail.

[99th_Monkey]

91. Since her speeches are so innocuous, I'm sure she will happily release the transcripts then. nt

[kennetha]

94. Maybe she told them about her policies

which, though less bombastic and simple minded than one-note Bernie's half-baked policies are, are much more thought out, much more far reaching, despite their lack of simplistic bombast, and have a much greater chance of being enacted, and have a much greater chance of being effective if enacted:

Her financial regulation plan is considerably more comprehensive than Sanders's and addresses issues — like shadow banking — that are outside the scope of Sanders's proposals. That became Clinton's opportunity to argue that her plan is actually tougher than his — that he would, in effect, let shadow banks off the hook.

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/7/10725422/clinton-sanders-shadow-bank

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/opinion/democrats-republicans-and-wall-street-tycoons.html?_r=0

Give me a pragmatic progressive who knows how to move the ball toward the ultimate goal, play-by-play, than a simple-minded "revolutionary" with his head in the clouds of ideal non-reality any day.

[99th_Monkey]

97. Give me a progressive who won't abandon 29 million uninsured Americans, to just tinker with ACA

Give me a progressive who stands tall with low-wage workers for a $15 an hour min wage.

Give me a progressive who dares to dream big and go for it, over a "No We Can't" faux-progressive
who changes her positions with every pantsuit, who became a multi-millionaire from speaking fees
to the Banksters.

[kennetha]

99. You sound like one of those infantile Republican Purists ...

who threaten to shut down the government if they don't get their way. You'd rather go down clinging to simplistic solutions that have no anchor in concrete reality, then actually accomplish something concrete and effective. I know it feels good, in the short term, to trumpet your moral and political superiority over more pragmatically minded people. But it's just a losing strategy in the end, that leaves you with nothing but disappointment and bitterness.

[99th_Monkey]

103. Bernie is doing pretty well with his "losing strategy". But maybe you have a point.

Maybe you're right. Better to be a "realist' and lick Wall St. wingtips, hunker down, just think
of me and mine, act out of fear rather than working for a future I can believe in.

Maybe you're right. Things will never really get better. The Wall St. hucksters and crooks have
already won, so I should give up and vote Hillary.

Better yet. maybe I'll just not vote at all, since I'd lose my lunch all over the voting machine.

[kennetha]

105. Hmm

You think Hilary's plan to regulate wall street is just giving in to the hucksters and crooks? That's just plain silly.

[99th_Monkey]

107. I'm going with 170 economists over ONE Mr. Krugman

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511039646

[Lucinda]

122. Thanks for these!

Appreciate it....I hadnt had time to track anything down yet!

[Politicub]

98. In addition to demands for your animals to graze on the land for free?

Sorry - just realized your another group with a list of "demands."

[99th_Monkey]

101. What word would you use?

request? how about "pretty please"?

Wait. I have it. how about "ask"?

Actually maybe you have a point. When I wrote the header, I had a twinge of hesitation
when using "demand" .. I'll edit to "ask"

[Politicub]

102. It does sound better. Demand is confrontational

I wish I could answer your ask, because I would. I don't think there's anything to hide.

People that insinuate there is without a shred of evidence make me think of the question, "when did Sanders stop doing the NRA's bidding?" I believe the answer is 2005 for that question, by the way.

[99th_Monkey]

104. Well, it's not like there isn't any evidence. There are nearly 3 million evidences.

When people or corporations shell-out 1/4 million dollars or more, they expect something in return for it.

And that's just the speaker fees, not even counting the Bankster's donations to her campaign.

[artislife]

133. That is pretty close to the edge... even for the h group.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

100. cut it out

ha ha

[Hoyt]

108. I think just about any business person, guitar maker who uses protected woods, environmentalist,

union, solar panel producer, bus manufacturer, etc., wants to attract people "in the know" to their big conventions.

It's a small cost to have someone who may well be Prez come to a big event and talk about what they would see as the regulatory environment in the future -- even if it is not what the banksters want to hear, they want to know so they can prepare for it. If they can't make as much money, they at least want to limit their loses.

Lots of liberals are high dollar key note speakers.

But what the heck do I know? I'm afflicted because everything just isn't a big conspiracy to me.

[99th_Monkey]

110. I'd be interested to see a list of which Liberals you are referring to

that have received 1/4 million dollars for one speech. Do you have any basis
for making that claim?

[kennetha]

112. Bernie's Man Robert Reich...

doesn't make quite as much per gig... after all, he's years and years away from being a major influence or maker or shaper of policy. But he does get paid a pretty penny for his speaking gigs.

In addition to his annual CU-Berkeley salary of $242,613, Professor Reich is also a popular speaker on the nation’s lecture circuit, and he commands a handsome speaking fee of $40,000 for a one-hour talk (including Q&A) plus first class travel for one or two people from California, hotel accommodations for up to two nights, ground transportation, meals and incidentals. That’s the quote I got today from one of Professor Reich’s speaking bureaus for his fee to give a presentation as part of a “university program” — it’s possible that he charges even more for corporate events. So we have the former labor secretary complaining about a pay gap between CEOs and average workers, when he gets almost as much in compensation for a one-hour talk as the average American worker earns working full-time for an entire year (see chart above)! If he gives only six speeches a year, his annual income approaches half-a-million dollars a year, putting him solidly in America’s “top 1%” by income – a group the “class warrior” frequently criticizes (see examples here and here). .

Many ex-government officials cash in in this way -- on the left and the right..

https://www.aei.org/publication/robert-reich-makes-36-more-than-average-ceo-and-gets-40k-for-a-one-hour-talk-vs-average-worker-pay-of-46kyear/

[99th_Monkey]

113. Well, ok.

But $40,000 is a whole different proposition than $225,000. Just sayin'.

And Mr. Reich's speaking fees have not catapulted him into being a multi-millionaire.

But point taken. Thanks for the info.

[Hoyt]

114. Just about any celebrity, former Prez or high cabinet official, actors, musicians, Cornell West,

Branson, John Lewis, Jane Fonda, Al Gore, Ed Asner, Harry Belafonte, Anthony Bourdain, Erin Brockovich, Jerry Brown, Morris Dees, Donna Brazile, Martha Stewart, and bunches more. Those people attract people to these conventions. Some just tell stories and look pretty. Others talk about the future and what may be coming down the road. Some are motivators.

In fact, Sanders will probably have a chance for lucrative speaker fees even if he loses.

[99th_Monkey]

115. But NOT at $225,000 per speech. <-- over the top. nt

[Hoyt]

116. Heck if you can get that much for your foundation by standing up there and saying you are going

to regulate the audience, why not. How much do you think Al Gore got back when he was really popular? Jimmy Carter gets good fees. They'd all get more if they could very likely be the next President. Jeeez, if you wanted to attract people to a big convention center, are you going to ask someone who will have no influence on your industries future. Medical convention bring in top researchers.

I really don't care how much someone makes if they do a good job, especially for our society.

[99th_Monkey]

118. We're not talking about medical conventions, or Jimmy Carter or Al Gore

we're taking about Wall St..

I still haven't seen any evidence that ANY other 'guest speaker' .. even ex-presidents like Carter,
are pulling down a 1/4 Million dollars per speech.

I'm still waiting to see any evidence of that.

And if her speeches are telling the Banksters to 'cut it out', then why won't she come clean with
transcripts?

[Hoyt]

119. Wall Street is just like a union, etc., in that they will pay for insight into future

regulatory action that impacts their industry.

[whatchamacallit]

125. Pretzel trauma, call a medic!

Embarrassing...

[w4rma]

121. I'd like to know exactly what she was promising them, in her speeches, for millions of dollars. (nt)

[Buns_of_Fire]

123. She could have read pages 13-39 of the telephone directory, for all it matters.

It's not about any blazing insights any politician might have or any wisdom they might impart. It's about shoveling money to a candidate without LOOKING like you're shoveling money to a candidate.

[99th_Monkey]

124. Did you catch this, came out today from The Intercept

https://vimeo.com/152786370

and was posted as OP this morning:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1051564

[ucrdem]

129. Ken Starr phone home. . . .

[Live and Learn]

134. Look what you started. ROFL

[99th_Monkey]

135. You know, it would be fun to believe that my one little OP on DU would be that

butterfly wing beating in China, that cascades and snowballs into the
question of the day.. people everywhere thinking "Gee, I wonder what's
in those transcripts."

But you know, I really suspect it was more of a collaboration than that;
because I actually stole the idea from SamKnause (with permission),
and was told by others that they thought they'd seen some posts on
Facebook about transcripts too, so who knows?

I'm just happy most everyone is wondering about it now ...

Thanks for your post .. what a wild fucking ride this is becoming, huh.

[Live and Learn]

136. I think it was. I spread it to Facebook right after you said it. Kudos!!

Never imagined it would spread like this but it seems to have.