What Changed?

I guess I am just cynical, but The U.K. Daily Mail posted an article that I thought stated something very logical and obvious. Hillary Clinton spoke to a crowd at Rutgers University this week. She was paid $25,000–not her usual $200,000. Just as a comparison, Snooki (from the Jersey Shore television series) got $32,000 when she spoke.

The article reports:

The payment came from an endowment fund and not tuition or public funds, a Rutgers spokeperson told NJ.com.

 In the past, Clinton has secured lucrative speaking fees that are often around her standard $200,000 fee.

Clinton appeared at at least eight universities in 2014 for paid speeches and took home a combined $1.8 million.  

When Rutgers brought in reality TV star Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi to speak on campus in 2011, she was given $32,000. More than 1,000 people came to the university to hear Snooki speak after several students questioned if it was a wise use of money.

A spokesperson for Clinton told NBC last week that she planned to donate her Rutgers speaking payment to charity. 

…The event was hosted by the Rutgers Eagleton Institute of Politics and its director Ruth Mandel.

I wonder if the charity she will donate to is the Clinton Foundation.

If you are still naive enough to believe that the $200,000 per speech that Hillary Clinton was receiving in the run-up to the election had nothing to do with the fact that she was expected to be the next American President, I have some oceanfront land I would like to sell you in Arizona.