I'm sure The Six Million Dollar Mansioned Man meant to turn over his speaker's fee to the local food bank and just forgot:
John Edwards has an example to teach University of California at Davis students how to avoid poverty — charge $55,000 for a speech.That's how much the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate negotiated for his fee to speak to 1,787 people at the taxpayer-funded school in January 2006, according to financial disclosures.
According to Joe Martin, the public relations officer for UC Davis' Mondavi Center, the fee for a speech entitled, "Poverty, the Great Moral issue Facing America," was worth it to school officials.
Yeah, they'd been dying to see what a $400 haircut looked like.
Posted by floridacracker at May 22, 2007 01:33 PM$55,000 you say?
To be fair, Edwards revealed a super-secret plan that does what no other society in history has succeeded in doing: It wipes out poverty.
It's a big, multi-page chart, with numbers and arrows, which ends with a beautiful rendering of a poor Appalachian family standing on the stoop of their crumbling home with a washtub full of newly acquired cash.
It caused quite a buzz at the gathering.
Amazing. Hard to believe he didn't get elected last time.
Posted by: Donnah at May 31, 2007 12:27 PM