Everybody remember how Dear Sarah had to bail out of CPAC so she could go and earn some chips in front of the Teabagging Hootenanny in Nashville?
Palin’s aides and conference organizers won’t comment on financial arrangements, but documents obtained by POLITICO reveal the going rate for the former Alaska governor: $100,000 a speech, with a discount to $75,000 for West Coast appearances. Palin has reportedly waived the fee for some charitable events, but what’s billed as a meeting of the grass-roots conservative movement is not among those.
Tickets for the Nashville event run $549, plus a $9.95 fee, while separate tickets to see only Palin cost $349. Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee are also scheduled to speak at the three-day conference at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center.
Palin’s speech will be closed to the press. Conference organizer Sherry Phillips confirmed to POLITICO that, unlike some of the events with other speakers, reporters will not be permitted to be in the room.
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As could be expected, Cinderella's beautiful horsedrawn carriage has turned into a big, flaming, gloppy bucket of shit.
http://www.tennessean.com/...
Tea Party Nation, the locally based group organizing the sold-out event, got its first taste of trouble Tuesday when a key volunteer announced he and others had quit the group. They claimed the event's $549 ticket price was designed to make a profit off the popularity of the grass-roots campaign.
By week's end, the national media were putting intense pressure on founder Judson Phillips after Tea Party Nation announced that only five, right-leaning media outlets would be allowed access to the event.
NBC News reported Friday, and The Tennessean confirmed, that Phillips, a Franklin attorney, had filed for Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy in 1999 and faced three federal tax liens since 2004 totaling more than $22,000.
Sweet Baby Jesus and the Troops. Its gotten so bad that a broke activist can't make a coupla bucks off of an authentic grassroots event.
Phillips said in an interview with The Tennessean that Tea Party Nation had been set up as a for-profit company but denied allegations of profiteering.
"We're running a fairly tight margin," he said. "Right now, if everything plays out the way we want it to be, we're going to break even."
Jud, the horse is out the barn door. Your attendees aren't going to be trusting you.
Plus, it appears that you upset your webmaster.
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This is the story of the tea party movement in Nashville and the duplicitous behavior, dishonesty, authoritarianism, and downright fraud that this movement is trying to ferret out of our Government. Unfortunately, this particular case comes from the inside. It’s lengthy, but important. What began as a short blog post has become a novella. I left out as many extraneous details as I possibly could and this is the boiled-down result.
Did that have an effect? You Betcha!
In response to Smith's post, one of Tea Party Nation's top sponsors, the American Liberty Alliance, pulled out of the convention.
The Alliance said in a news release it was concerned with how Tea Party Nation was organized. Those who signed up for the convention paid for their tickets through a PayPal account set up through Phillips' wife's e-mail address.
Is Bible Spice unlucky, or does she simply find herself drawn to the unsavory, like a moth to flame?
Enjoy the agony and defensiveness.
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