All Things Palinesque
Discarded Palin contract sparks California probe
"SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — A document fished out of a California state university trash bin last week has prompted a state investigation into the university's foundation arm and its refusal to disclose details related to Sarah Palin's upcoming speech at the school.
On Tuesday, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said his office would look into the finances of the California State University, Stanislaus Foundation, as well as allegations that the nonprofit organization violated public disclosure laws by keeping details of Palin's contract secret.
Palin is scheduled to speak at a June 25 gala hosted by the foundation to mark the university's 50th anniversary.
Brown's investigation was prompted, in part, by a group of CSU Stanislaus students who retrieved five pages of the contract from a campus trash bin last Friday after hearing administrators were engaged in shredding documents.
The contract detailed the former Alaska governor's requirements for her visit, including first-class flights from Anchorage to California — if she flies commercial. If not, "the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger ...," the contract specifies.
Palin also must be provided with a suite and two single rooms in a deluxe hotel near the campus in Turlock in the Central Valley. During her speech, her lectern must be stocked with two water bottles and bendable straws.
The document, dated March 16, does not include compensation details for Palin, who commands speaking fees as high as $100,000. Her appearance at the university gala is expected to draw a large crowd, with tickets selling for $500 each."
The controversy supposedly isn't about Governor Gidget and whatever exhorbitant sum the school's organization is willing to fork over to have her come spew her garbage.
But it's just this unseemly stench that follows her wherever she goes. CSU claimed no documents existed, yet there they are. The foundation is tied at the hip to CSU and has offices in the university's administration building but claims it's not bound by disclosure laws.
You have to ask what else is going on with this Stanislaus Foundation, which funnels unknown amounts of money around with zero oversight and no transparency, and for what political purpose. Especially since the school just raised student's fees.
Capitalizing on fake celebrity sure has it's pitfalls.
Sarah Palin's Tea Party Dinner Disaster
"SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — A document fished out of a California state university trash bin last week has prompted a state investigation into the university's foundation arm and its refusal to disclose details related to Sarah Palin's upcoming speech at the school.
On Tuesday, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said his office would look into the finances of the California State University, Stanislaus Foundation, as well as allegations that the nonprofit organization violated public disclosure laws by keeping details of Palin's contract secret.
Palin is scheduled to speak at a June 25 gala hosted by the foundation to mark the university's 50th anniversary.
Brown's investigation was prompted, in part, by a group of CSU Stanislaus students who retrieved five pages of the contract from a campus trash bin last Friday after hearing administrators were engaged in shredding documents.
The contract detailed the former Alaska governor's requirements for her visit, including first-class flights from Anchorage to California — if she flies commercial. If not, "the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger ...," the contract specifies.
Palin also must be provided with a suite and two single rooms in a deluxe hotel near the campus in Turlock in the Central Valley. During her speech, her lectern must be stocked with two water bottles and bendable straws.
The document, dated March 16, does not include compensation details for Palin, who commands speaking fees as high as $100,000. Her appearance at the university gala is expected to draw a large crowd, with tickets selling for $500 each."
The controversy supposedly isn't about Governor Gidget and whatever exhorbitant sum the school's organization is willing to fork over to have her come spew her garbage.
But it's just this unseemly stench that follows her wherever she goes. CSU claimed no documents existed, yet there they are. The foundation is tied at the hip to CSU and has offices in the university's administration building but claims it's not bound by disclosure laws.
You have to ask what else is going on with this Stanislaus Foundation, which funnels unknown amounts of money around with zero oversight and no transparency, and for what political purpose. Especially since the school just raised student's fees.
Capitalizing on fake celebrity sure has it's pitfalls.
Sarah Palin's Tea Party Dinner Disaster
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