Sixty-five thousand dollars to Chelsea Clinton for 10 minute speech

[JackRiddler]

A college balks at Hillary Clinton’s fee, books Chelsea for $65,000 instead

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-college-balks-at-hillary-clintons-fee-so-books-chelsea-for-65000-instead/2015/06/29/b1918e42-1e78-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html

So inspirational!

The contract required that the university submit a final list of attendees (including their occupations, titles and affiliations) two weeks before the event “for vetting” and stipulated that guests must be lined up before Clinton’s arrival and then “proceed to their seats” after their photos were taken. The contract also gave Clinton’s team “final approval” of which media outlets were authorized to cover the speech.

[Autumn]

1. I hope she used that to pay off her student loans.

[Android3.14]

26. As if she has student loans

[CorporatistNation]

43. Hillaryous! From The GetGo Of This Campaign MONEY IS The Reason For The Season...

So much for "OUR" Democratic Party... When in FACT it is HILLARY'S democratic PARTY!

[amborin]

2. obscene; and do they have a Cayman Island account?

[JackRiddler]

4. No, it goes to the foundation...

which no doubt has a bunch of those.

[amborin]

15. but doesn't she and her husband have one, separately?

[Ash_F]

3. Is people's tuition payments funding that?

[JackRiddler]

8. Money is fungible, so tuition plus taxpayers.

Incredible, no?

Some amazing lucre on the circuit - others get $30 K and such to speak to colleges. So noble!

[Ash_F]

12. I would rather they spend this money on staffing, books, facilities. /nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

110. Perhaps they could have afforded Hillary's fee if Sanders free tuition program had been implemented

[Jackie Wilson Said]

5. I have a problem with the growing oligarchy, but do you point out all

highly paid speakers or just the Clinton's?

[JackRiddler]

10. Read the article, it mentions various speakers...

With ridiculous but far lower fees than what CC commanded.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

14. So you will join me in taxing these fees or for that matter any income above a certain

amount to the tune of about 75%?

[JackRiddler]

19. Sure, that used to be the highest tax bracket.

[Armstead]

20. That was one reason incomes were less concentrated

Not just the taxes themselves...But the high rates that used to exist also removed the incentive to pay ridiculously high salaries and binuses

[Sunlei]

112. If for their charity, its tax free. Personal income the clintons do pay IRS about 45%? tax rate.

Financials are public info on their Clinton Foundation website.

Mrs Clinton has her IRS filings on her website.

Always amazed me how high 'speaking fees' are, but even old Mitt Romney got $40,000 'speaking fees' from Corporations & his friends when he had to list his "income".

[artislife]

55. Her's are notable because she didn't inherit her father's gift.

She is dull.

[SwampG8r]

95. Yeah

She has her moms lack of charisma

[RobinA]

96. I Have A Problem

with highly paid speakers who have done...what in life besides be highly paid speakers? I happen to like Chelsea from what I've seen in the media and I am a Hillary supporter. But my issue with this, and there are many people other than Chelsea doing it, is why are people willing to pay people like her with very little practical experience in anything, who are somehow touted as experts in something. Outside of academia, a place where you know you are getting an academic with lots of book and research knowledge, which has it's own value, what does Chelsea Clinton have to tell me? I have a Masters degree in psychology, I've worked retail, as a paralegal, as a child welfare social worker, a therapist in a methadone clinic, a community therapist, and as a social worker/therapist at a psychiatric hospital. There are thousands of people like me in various areas doing real work on the ground. Chelsea (and others in similar circumstances); work retail, walk through a crack house and try to keep the children who live there safe and not get yourself killed, help stroke patients rehab, teach kids to read. Then I might agree you should get big money for speeches.

[exboyfil]

103. Totally agree

I would much prefer to hear someone with your experience than a silver spoon. I always wonder about athletes as well. If they are talking to other athletes, then it kinds of makes sense but, in general, I really don't know what they can teach me. Same applies to actors.

I would prefer to hear authors, scientists, business professionals, social workers, health care providers etc.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. In ten minutes she made what is the yearly pay for many Americans

And then they think people are not getting tired of this shit

[Baobab]

56. Not much longer

Dad's trade deal may lower wages substantially soon.


>In ten minutes she made what is the yearly pay for many Americans

[enough]

59. Truly. (nt)

[renate]

90. you said so much in just a few words

and you said it so well.

[AzDar]

7. I'm sure she's worth every penny... what with her MANY accomplishments. Grifters gotta grift...

[redstateblues]

9. How much could you command for a speech?

Envy is an ugly emotion

[JackRiddler]

11. I'm glad you know your place in the class system.

[Joe the Revelator]

16. You don't find that kind of money insane? For 10 minutes?

Over a year's salary for most of the country.

[redstateblues]

29. You obviously are unaware how much speaking fees are for

prominent people. As a Braves fan how do you feel about mediocre pitchers with lifetime losing records getting multi million dollar contracts? Apples and oranges for sure but I guess you could say they get "what is offered". Is it right that they make more money than school teachers? I see people in the music biz that I don't think are talented getting huge contracts. This whole idea that it's wrong for people to make money is puzzling.

[Joe the Revelator]

31. CC is getting paid a years talent for her last name....not any talent that she has.

Unless being born into Royalty is talent.

[cheapdate]

60. Are there any exceptions to this principle of yours?

Jamie Dimon at JP Morgan Chase? Lloyd Blankfein at Goldman Sachs? Thomas Kennedy at Raytheon? Just folks makin' money?

Practically no one here believes that the "whole idea" is that "it's wrong for people to make money" in the way that you seem to clearly be implying, which is as a universal principle. It's a necessity to make money to live in the world as it is. It's wrong for financial and political elites to skim millions and millions of dollars off the top.

I don't really have time right now to try to "unpuzzle" for you why some people take issue with Lloyd Blankfein taking home $23 million last year and Chelsea Clinton pocketing $65,000 for a 10-minute speech. So, I'll just say lots of people are pissed off. I'm pissed off. Not "envious". But when every last penny of future value in the country is continually being vacuumed up by these sons-of-bitches while millions of ordinary Americans are left scrambling for enough money just to survive, there's a problem. It's wrong. They (bankers) borrow from the Fed at 1.5% and loan it out to the rest of us at 8%, 10%, 15%, 20%.

[Avalon Sparks]

80. Well said Cheapdate...

Hmmmmm, they might understand government officials and their close family members accepting suitcases full of money, you know the way bribes are facilitated in "corrupt" countries.

Here in the US it goes down so much easier for some folks if the bribes are framed as "speaking fees". See? They sing for their supper?, nothing to see here.

A bribe by any other name is still a bribe.

If the Clinton dynamic duo secures the US Presidency, their investors will be lining up around the block to collect on their "investments". I imagine some of them have been waiting for years for their bets to pay out.

Such is the way of corruption.

Fun tip: Bribes or other items of value (I.e invitation to speak for cash) are often funneled through close family members (generally spouse and children) of governmental officials. It's a common method of paying for influence in corrupt countries all over the world.

[cheapdate]

82. Bribery in the U.S. is narrowly defined under U.S. law.

It practically requires nothing short of a of a bundle of cash changing hands and a tape recording of a public official explicitly saying that 'I will do X in exchange for this bundle of cash.'

The remedy for corruption, which is a betrayal of public trust, is supposed to be regular, free and fair, elections.

But the whole process has become dysfunctional and corrupted from top to bottom.

[Avalon Sparks]

85. Very narrowly defined in US...you are correct again!

It still is what it is, no?

Whether it's "illegal" or not is relevant to me.

A corrupt government is always most devastating to its weakest citizens.

Many Americans understand that on some level I think, but because they're doing ok, fairly comfortable, they don't think the corruption will impact them.

Sadly in need of some history lessons.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. And she charged a lot more than other speakers they considered,

like Gloria Steinem and Cokie Roberts - women who have actually done something. What has Chelsea actually done besides come up a winner in the Lucky Gamete Club?

[Politicalboi]

17. Like Mother like daughter

Riding coattails is what they do best. Although, those coattails aren't what they used to be. The Clinton's might want to think about moving to a country where they can't expedite you for your crimes.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. Extradite?

[Enrique]

23. or she inherited the talent for giving speeches worth that much money

or maybe not

[azmom]

21. What a racket.

[enough]

62. Yes, at $390,000 per hour. (nt)

[noretreatnosurrender]

22. Obscene

Ugh. This just makes me sick.

[petronius]

24. That's about the pay and benefits for a full-time lecturer, at my school

(Although lecturers are grossly underpaid.) Pretty close to the annual starting pay of a tenure-track professor. Hope it was worth it to them...

[DetroitSocialist83]

25. I thought Chelsea said

She doesn't care about money?

[longship]

27. Runs in the family.

You flap your gums, you get paid. Big time.

After all, you're a Clinton and it's your turn.

What a disgusting family.

[felix_numinous]

28. The 1% live in a bubble

it's the job of American people to pop that bubble periodically to equalize the pressure, and power.

[CentralCoaster]

30. Ah, Now This All Makes SENSE! High Tuitions to Pay Rich People Too Much Money!

Charge people who don't have money to spend, and THEN give that to super rich people who don't need it!

I LOVE America!

[Land of Enchantment]

32. At age 26, Chelsea accomplished this---

and was not living in her parents' basement paying off student loans and working at Starbucks....like so many of our friends' kids..Funny how opportunity just presented itself!!!

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15549672/ns/business-us_business/t/chelsea-clinton-joins-new-york-hedge-fund/

NEW YORK — Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton has joined Avenue Capital Group, a $12 billion hedge fund manager whose founder has contributed to many Democratic Party campaigns, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.
Clinton, 26, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has taken a post at the New York-based fund manager in an undisclosed capacity, the source said.
Clinton, who graduated from Stanford University in 2001 and studied philosophy at Oxford University, most recently worked at consultants McKinsey & Co. from 2003.
Avenue which focuses on distressed securities investing was co-founded by Marc Lasry. Morgan Stanley this week bought a minority stake in Avenue.

[RedCappedBandit]

33. What a waste.

[Snotcicles]

34. I'll take Amy Carter. nt

[LonePirate]

35. Wow! There's a lot of unwarranted pettiness, jealously and faux outrage in this thread.

There is absolutely no one in this thread who would refuse $65K for a brief speech. Why should Chelsea refuse it?

[Fumesucker]

38. Why would anyone offer that much money to someone with no significant personal accomplishments?

[LonePirate]

44. Maybe they are paying for her perspective on her life with two impossibly successful parents?

They are certainly not going to find very many speakers with her life experience.

[nadinbrzezinski]

57. When people are scrapping money to pay the rent

and go into major debt over a medical emergency... this actually is not pettiness, is realization that there is a class struggle. Yes, even Americans are getting radicalized. It is a slow process. By the way, I would not complaint if she got paid a reasonable rate. More than the median income for 10 minutes is not a reasonable rate.

It is part of the defend the rich mentality that has gotten us as a country into all kinds of trouble. And sooner or later people will lash out.

[LonePirate]

64. Would you prefer one of Trump's spawn receive the speaking gig?

Colleges go to all sorts of trouble and expense to hire speakers for spring graduation ceremonies. Like it or not, there is intense competition between schools and a high profile speaker is often a public relations moment - which is why they don't typically hire no names or unconnected people to speak. It's a time of celebration for the graduates and the school and some schools spend lavishly for that moment in the spotlight and to make the day as memorable as possible for attendees.

Also, what you consider a reasonable rate is apparently far from the market rate or what the college considers reasonable. And this speaking fee has absolutely nothing to do with medical debt or rent. She could speak for free and people will still have problems paying rent or medical bills. Again, it's all pettiness, jealously and probably also resentment directed at Chelsea because her mother has been vilified here on DU and sites like FR where some DUers go to post when they are not here.

[nadinbrzezinski]

68. I would not mind if they got paid a reasonable fee

you are missing that on purpose, but that is not surprising. Trust me, the rich could care less what happens to LonePirate, If you live or die is no matter to them. It is time to stop defending these rentier class practices. You might want to look that reference up by the way.

[LonePirate]

70. I don't care one iota about the fee. It could be $5. It could be $10M. It makes no difference.

You simply have it in your head what you think is reasonable. Your opinion obviously differs from the college. The key difference here is that they are paying it. If you want to hire a speaker for what you consider a reasonable fee, then have at it. This is nothing more than a job negotiated between an employer and an employee. Neither of us are involved in that transaction so we can either accept it (like I have) or we can complain about it being unfair for whatever reason (like you have).

[nadinbrzezinski]

71. My opinion is based on silly principles as social justice

she got paid for ten minutes what some of those kids owe, and will have a hell of a time paying back.

As I said, you keep defending those rentier practices.

[LonePirate]

72. I am minding my own damn business and respecting a legal, private business transaction.

Your social justice clamoring will have absolutely no impact on this matter. If it makes you sleep well at night thinking your wordsmithing on an internet forum makes any difference at all in something so completely trivial and irrelevant as this speaking engagement, then have at it. Personally, there are far better targets for your time but railing against anything Clinton is de rigeuer for almost ever Bernie voter but me here on DU. I bet if someone with a last name other than Clinton had accepted this speaking gig, neither you or anyone else on DU would be saying one peep about it. Or do you have dozens of other posts complaining about exorbitant speaking fees handed out by universities this year? I didn't think so.

[nadinbrzezinski]

73. You might want to review what happens when workers get tired of this shit

and develop a class consciousness.

/revision/latest?cb=20071116134208

What ultimately you are defending is income inequality and wealth concentration. Your post sounds kind of let them eat cake. It used to be surprising to find these sentiments, but these days they are not surprising at all. They are almost expected.

Keep defending those rentier practices. I have my ear close to the ground and shit like this will not play well in many places you are probably not familiar with.

[LonePirate]

75. You are lacking common sense if you think a college is going to pay some no name to speak.

Would you have preferred some multi-millionaire athlete or movie star or CEO be paid to speak instead of Chelsea Clinton? Those are the types of people hired for these gigs. They do not hire people nobody has ever heard of. They do not pluck some mail carrier or elementary school teacher or retired factory worker to speak at these events. Your worker uprising spiel will never, ever change the hiring practices for college commencement speaking jobs. The best you can hope for is some temporary sensation like Chesley Sullenberger who emerges from nowhere to capture America's attention briefly. If you think otherwise, you are completely detached from reality - a reality no revolution will change.

[nadinbrzezinski]

76. This has not one thing to do with common sense.

but if you think this shit will not lead to social unrest sooner or later, you lack understanding and knowledge of history. I could get rude, I shan't. You keep defending that concentration. Realize though, that you do not even do it well.

[LonePirate]

77. College commencement speaking gigs will absolutely NOT lead to social unrest.

The whole notion is completely absurd and anyone with a lick of common sense would understand how completely unrelated the job and your social unrest yammering are. If there is any major social unrest in this country's near future (which I highly doubt there is), the fees paid for speaking at a college graduation will not appear on the top 100 concerns of any of the uprisers. How can you be so oblivious to this given how you say you have your ear to the ground?

[Avalon Sparks]

83. Corruption

Maybe you'd understand government officials and their close family members accepting suitcases full of money, you know the way bribes are facilitated in "corrupt" countries.

Here in the US it goes down so much easier for some folks if the bribes are framed as "speaking fees". See? They sing for their supper?, nothing to see here.

A bribe by any other name is still a bribe.

If the Clinton dynamic duo secures the US Presidency, their investors will be lining up around the block to collect on their "investments". I imagine some of them have been waiting for years for their bets to pay out.

Such is the way of corruption.

Fun tip: Bribes or other items of value (I.e invitation to speak for cash) are often funneled through close family members (generally spouse and children) of governmental officials. It's a common method of paying for influence in corrupt countries all over the world.

[LonePirate]

86. Her parents have a net worth north of $100M and this speaking fee is less than 1/10 of 1% of that

You think this qualifies as a bribe? You really need to take off the tin foil hat and start looking at things from a realistic perspective. To claim this speaking fee is a bribe is the pinnacle of stupidity here on DU tonight.

[Avalon Sparks]

87. I'm well aware of what a bribe is...

Often, Granting favors or other items of value to relatives of a public official is a form of illegitimate private gain, so yes I would infer it is likely passive bribery.

Their net worth is actually 150 million, the majority of it bribes.

No need to wear a tin foil hat, my career requires me to be an expert at finding corruption and protecting the non-USA company I work for from violating the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act.

Of course, it's mainly relevant to bribes extended to Foreign Government Officials, not so much to US ones, as the US accepts legalized bribery. An oxymoron yes, but by keeping it "transparent" under the guise of "speaking fees", a ruse by the way that you and some others readily accept and even condone, well there's no need for money laundering. Ka Ching, straight to the Clinton checking account, nice and clean.

I've been studying corruption and bribery for years, and as such it's fairly easy to recognize when you see it.

The Clintons have made their fortune accepting influence money, the IOU's are coming due soon enough I expect.

Such is the way of corruption.

[nadinbrzezinski]

98. The problem is that many Americans

Do not accept corruption exists in the US. To the south we know better. It was even a presidential slogan. Rough
Translation, we are all responsible for corruption. It just happens at different levels, and it is only getting worst

[enough]

61. So this all seems right to you? As her mother said "It's what they offered." (nt)

[LonePirate]

66. Again, if it is what they offered her, then there is nothing wrong.

Should she donate the speaking fee? She probably will. If not, that's her business, not ours. Again, I doubt any DUer would turn down the speaking fee so why should Chelsea?

[SoLeftIAmRight]

88. really???

wow - this is the world you want?

[LonePirate]

91. You mean a world where an employer & employee agree to a higher than living wage w/o ...

needing government approval? That is the world we all should want.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

113. you must not read very much

...

[LonePirate]

114. I stay away from the Creative Speculation thread where a lot of these nonsense objections belong

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Jealousy and an obvious lack of understanding of this special event market permeate this thread. Partisan hatred directed at anything Clinton also motivates many of the posts here.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

115. pirate?

lol

[Aerows]

36. What has she done

to warrant 65 cents?

[Impedimentus]

37. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.

Golden apples everywhere for them Clintons.

FEEL THE BERN - 2016

[nichomachus]

39. She probably talked about her autobiography

"From Trust Fund to Hedge Fund -- How My Dead-Broke Parents Paid For My $5,000,000 Wedding."

[Hassin Bin Sober]

54. Lol.

[4139]

40. She is an argument $15 an hour is too high.

[speaktruthtopower]

41. Proof..

there is no need for free tuition or student debt relief.

[democrattotheend]

42. Who cares?

It's one thing to attack Hillary, the presidential candidate, for giving expensive speeches to groups that hired her knowing or speculating she was going to run for president. Chelsea is not running for anything, so who cares how much she gets paid?

[Fumesucker]

47. Chelsea has been on the capaign trail, she is officially part of the Clinton campaign

Indeed Chelsea came out and lied about Sanders' health care proposal, that didn't endear her to quite a few of us.

[democrattotheend]

49. I still don't think it's relevant how much money she makes nt

[Fumesucker]

53. Sanders describes a culture where a few make vast sums for little or no work

Vast sums for some while others lack basic necessities.

The other candidate's daughter just made above a median American's yearly wage for saying a few words no one will remember an hour later. Combine that with Chelsea's comment about "not caring about money" and it seems remarkably clueless as to how it would be perceived.

[oldandhappy]

45. Family gravy train.

Pretty common for kids to follow their parents.

[jillan]

46. Compare and contrast. This is the son of Bernie Sanders. He works as a social security disability

insurance analyst. One child was raised to fight for disability rights, the other was raised to marry a hedge fund manager and collect
65k for a speech. In both cases - the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

?quality=65&strip=all&strip=all

[JackRiddler]

48. Wow, he looks JUST like Obama!

Who's the one with the beard?

Ha ha ha.

(Like many to his left - and who abhor the longstanding U.S. imperialism and the neoliberal order - I have my problems with Obama, but damn, that charisma!!!)

[jillan]

51. Hahahaaaa - thanks for the laugh!!

[msanthrope]

97. I note you aren't talking about the daughter he has with Jane...the one who

was put on the Burlington College payroll offering a woodworking degree once her mother was running the college...... if you Google it you can see how many hundreds of thousands she was paid.

That woodworking degree program was dropped after Jane Sanders was terminated.

[lumberjack_jeff]

106. Burlington college still offers a woodworking degree program.

https://burlington.edu/academics/areas-of-study/woodworkingfine-furniture-making/woodworking-and-fine-furniture-making-aa

Good for them.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

50. If nothing else, I can see where Sanders can partially fund college for everyone.

Just take Clinton family speaking fees, and you've got a good start.

[jillan]

52. Now there is a thought!

[jg10003]

58. The topic: The importance of having rich and famous parents

[Bread and Circus]

63. Jesus Fucking Christ....what could she have to say worth $65,000?

Really.

[moondust]

65. Utterly absurd. n/t

[Newkularblue]

67. The worst part about this

Is that some people just dont understand how fucking WRONG this is..

Thats more than 2.5 people working full time for $12/hr could make in a year..

Or, if you like. One person working over 2.5 YEARS

[hobbit709]

69. Runs in the family.

[frylock]

78. Nice work if you can get it.

[islandmkl]

79. there are several posters on this thread who either don't get the inherent question of this

Clinton speech-making money machine...what does she have to say?...at $6500/minute?

or just want to play the adversarial card and defend the amount as being merely a standard fee in the speech-making market while ignoring any question about the 'worth' of the speech...

the disconnect is obvious...and probably intentional...

surprised, well not really, that there are so many on DU who are of the 'let them eat cake' mindset...i wish they would just post 'LTEC' and quit using their limited imagination in trying to justify certain inequities in our system as being 'the way it is...' and that it is totally fine and that anyone who doesn't actually get any cake is just envious, etc....

the guillotine was not erected by the 'little people' in France...however, at one point some elites found themselves in the cart on the way to the block...

[Bread and Circus]

84. It is total bullshit she would get paid like this to speak. If this is not buying influence, then

I don't know what is.

[senz]

81. She must be a great speaker.

Maybe she and her parents could publish a volume of their collected speeches.

[jfern]

89. Does Chelsea even have any skills?

It's pretty clear the only thing special about her is she's another way to get access to her parents.

[B Calm]

92. and who pays the college for them to waste $ on guest speakers?

[Vinca]

93. Speaking for obscene fees seems to be a family enterprise.

Wonder why college costs so much?

[Betty Karlson]

94. That's what they offered.

By the way, when are those Goldman Sachs transcripts to be made available to the public?

[Dem2]

99. Damn, I need to get into politics!

Anybody who complains is just jealous, that's for sure.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

100. Is the speech to be about the horrors of Free Tuition?

[FlatBaroque]

107. LOL...touche

She is training to be as horrid a person as her mother.

[AgerolanAmerican]

101. That reminds me

Didn't Clinton take a quarter million for a single speech at a public university while the student body was in the midst of protesting yet another massive tuition hike?

[Lil Missy]

102. Good for her. n/t

[Renew Deal]

104. Would you take the money if they offered it to you?

[Avalux]

105. Now now. Chelsea doesn't care about money.

Hillary Clinton insists she isn’t “well-off” and now daughter Chelsea, according to a recent interview, claims she couldn't care less about money.

“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told Fast Company in an interview that ran in the magazine's May edition, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/chelsea-clinton-care-money-article-1.1840138

[Art_from_Ark]

118. LOL

So which Beatles song is it?

[99Forever]

108. Corruption doesn't skip any generations in the Clinton family.

[Sunlei]

111. Chelsea Clinton, Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation.Foundation has benefited millions of people

As only a few examples, because of the Clinton Foundation’s work, more than 31,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; more than 105,000 farmers in Malawi, Rwanda, and Tanzania are benefiting from climate-smart agronomic training, higher yields, and increased market access; over 450,000 people have been impacted through market opportunities created by social enterprises in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia; an estimated 85 million people in the U.S. will be reached through strategic health partnerships developed across industry sectors at both the local and national level; and through the independent Clinton Health Access Initiative, 9.9 million people in more than 70 countries have access to CHAI-negotiated price for HIV/AIDS medications.

[amborin]

119. please! that's from their press release

[Prism]

116. But she doesn't seem to know anything . . .

And I don't mean that to be disparaging. I honestly haven't seen any video of her where I've thought, "Oh, she totally knows what she's talking about."

I know people will want to chime in with, "But Stanford!" I'm not denying she's an intelligent woman. I'm just saying . . . she doesn't seem to know anything. People can simultaneously be very bright and woefully ignorant.

[JackRiddler]

117. We want the Chelsea transcripts!

Just kidding. Not really.

I wish the threads I post about how people should ignore nonsense and just push ISSUES because then Sanders will win big would get as much attention as this one.

Not that it's not substantive in a way - absolutely indicative of the problems we are fighting. The money power versus the people power!

[Buns_of_Fire]

120. "Hello, I'm Chelsea Clinton." (Thunderous applause)

"Today, I'd like to speak to you about the importance of voting." (More applause, standing ovation)

"It's critically important that people in a democratic society vote, to KEEP it a democratic society." (Screams from the balcony, people swooning, chants of "Chelsea! Chelsea!&quot

"And I'd like to recommend that you vote for... MY MOTHER!" (The crowd goes wild, stamping their feet, throwing chairs, rending their garments, spontaneously marching around the auditorium)

"I see my ten minutes are up. Thank you for your attention." (Leaves stage, visibly exhausted)