Source: Yahoo

Sarah Palin’s appearance early next month at the first tea party movement’s convention in Nashville, Tenn., has stirred controversy in conservative circles over her reported decision to charge a substantial fee.

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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Just a good old grass roots movement at $559.00 a head plus travel. I am beginning to feel the teabaggers are some kind if strange Ira Levin Boys From Brazil plot coupled with the DNA of Nero and Hermann Goering.

of all the cow shit they'll need to freshen up the place after the event.

They tend to pull muscles laughing so hard at the gullibility of the tea baggers.

Talk about a critical mass of stupid.

Sounds dangerous to me.

savior speak -- but they can't afford it.

We should encourage all teabaggers to pay for it...

It looks all lumpy, pointed and like it has a rash or something going on. WTF?
Are her ears always this unattractive?

:)

Where in the devil did they get the money to pay Palin her big bonus. Where, because we all know who is backing them and it sure as heck ain't no grass roots organization.

Certainly the price for telling people what they want to hear has gone up enormously these days.

Tonight Palin said on O'Reilly that "she is not 'personally' profiting from the Teaparty Convention".

But she DID NOT say: that she wasn't charging a speaking fee. She NEVER said that she would be speaking for free. NEVER.

My guess is that she is having the Teabaggers give her check to her PAC and then she will dole out the money to people she owes favors to or to the campaigns other other people that she can get publicity from.

Palin is a snake in the grass! Although a dimwit snake a snake all the less ;)

new political consultant business.

:o

dollars they can contribute this autumn.

par for the course.

Nearly half term governor of the most sparsely populated state in the union.

Rhodes scholar.

Bachelor's degree of questionable accreditation.

Known and respected all over the world.

Can see Russia when Putin rears his head over the North Pole.

Seems like a bit of a disparity in qualifications, but by this "logic," I deserve Lebron James level money and an NBA contract. Par for the course, you know.