Bush Charged $100,000 To Speak At Homeless Shelter Fundraiser
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The next time your conservative friends show anger at the Clintons for making big money giving speeches, hit them with this one:
Politico’s Michael Kruse decided to investigate how Clinton’s successor was doing on what Gerald Ford called the “mashed potato circuit.” The answer: pretty damn well, though exact figures proved suspiciously difficult to track down.
By 2011 President George W Bush “had given some 140 talks, for at least $15 million,” Kruse wrote, noting the trail of information dried up after that. Kruse found that Bush’s customary speaking fee fluctuated between $100,000 and $175,000, and may have gone higher.
At one point, Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a fundraiser for a McKinney homeless shelter:
“We paid his regular fee,” Lynne Sipiora told POLITICO. She’s the executive director of the Samaritan Inn, a homeless shelter in McKinney, Texas. “Which is $100,000.”
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mea_mark June 8th, 2015 at 11:42 am
GOP charity, isn’t that just grifting?
tracey marie June 8th, 2015 at 11:58 am
absolutely, even a wealthy bush wants money to help a shelter, disgusting behavior.
CherMoe June 8th, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Bush wasn’t “helping” the shelter … he was stealing from them by charging them. And half the people that are poor and homeless are in their situation BECAUSE of Bush and his policies as (P)resident.
Red Eye Robot June 8th, 2015 at 12:10 pm
Bush got 100,000 to speak at homeless shelter fundraiser… And as a result the homeless shelter got permission to do business with Iran
anothertoothpick June 8th, 2015 at 7:28 pm
And then the cow jumped over the moon.
rg9rts June 9th, 2015 at 5:24 am
HEY Gary how’s it hangin???
larra June 8th, 2015 at 12:16 pm
“We’re a homeless shelter, so it was a hefty fee for us, but we ended up netting over $1 million,” said Sipiora
whatthe46 June 8th, 2015 at 1:33 pm
that’s stupidest $hit ever!!!
CherMoe June 8th, 2015 at 3:51 pm
But really, a person or group has to have some morals and credibility. Having a rich Bush give a talk there just takes away from YOU. The Bush family doesn’t give a hoot about homeless people or the poor or elderly. Jeb Bush is trying to slash or end our SOCIAL SECURITY.
Dominic Gaurin June 10th, 2015 at 12:47 am
you mean like Bill charging $500K to accept an award from an organization that builds schools in third world countries, when they only took in $2M????
uzza June 8th, 2015 at 1:05 pm
The going rate on Craiglist is a lot less than that for a used bush.
whatthe46 June 8th, 2015 at 1:34 pm
and exactly what did the homeless shelter gain? not a damn thing. money poorly spent.
Mike June 8th, 2015 at 3:20 pm
They made a million bucks from donations…it really wasn’t a bad deal.
tracey marie June 8th, 2015 at 3:34 pm
It should have been 1 million plus 100,000. If bush cared he would have volunteered to donate his fee back to the charity.
Mike June 8th, 2015 at 4:16 pm
Yeah, but let’s not forget 3 things…
1. He’s a politician
2. He’s a Republican
3. He’s a Bush
tracey marie June 8th, 2015 at 4:17 pm
🙂
Joe Downey June 8th, 2015 at 4:33 pm
He had no soul so he can’t care
rg9rts June 9th, 2015 at 5:24 am
gopee has none
Red Eye Robot June 18th, 2015 at 6:30 am
Like Hillary did with her $200,000 fee for speaking at the long beach boys & girls club?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3126581/Hillary-Clinton-charged-Boys-Girls-Club-massive-fee-speak-luncheon.html
whatthe46 June 8th, 2015 at 5:18 pm
stop correcting me. thanks. lol.
Bunya June 8th, 2015 at 2:08 pm
Of course he charge $100.000 to speak. I’m sure the money the Bush family made off the Iraq war has long since dried up.
StarrGazerr615 June 8th, 2015 at 2:34 pm
The money the Bush family made off the Iraq war will never dry up.
Joe Downey June 8th, 2015 at 2:43 pm
Prescott Bush made millions when Millions was a lot of money off the Nazis Payment was in GOLD ONLY
Bunya June 8th, 2015 at 3:23 pm
Bush Sr. retain his position at the Carlyle group.
“Carlyle specializes in military and security investments, and with Bush Jr. in office, the company’s profits have soared; it received $677 million in contracts in 2002, then a whopping $2.1 billion in 2003. Carlyle’s investors currently enjoy an equity capital pool of over 44 billion dollars.”
.
http://www.heatherwokusch.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=86
Joe Downey June 8th, 2015 at 4:32 pm
Bunya Carlyle Group AKA Royal House of Saud and they have a problem with the Clinton Foundation
Bunya June 8th, 2015 at 4:42 pm
So did the Bush’s, according to this article.
Steve Madden June 9th, 2015 at 7:19 am
The bush family are multi millionaires thank to grand dad.
CherMoe June 8th, 2015 at 3:49 pm
I wouldn’t pay a “plug” nickel to listen to any Bush’s B.S., ESPECIALLY his!!! He told enough lies to Americans. It’s bad enough we’re still paying for his security, staff and living expenses as well as a salary. the Bushes are master b.s.’ers!!!
jasperjava June 8th, 2015 at 4:20 pm
I wouldn’t pay one thin dime to hear anything this inarticulate moron has to say.
I would, however, like to hear him enter a plea at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Jer June 8th, 2015 at 5:35 pm
“We paid his regular fee,” Lynne Sipiora told POLITICO. She’s the executive director of the Samaritan Inn, a homeless shelter in McKinney, Texas. “Which is $100,000.”
…Sipiora, the executive director of the Samaritan Inn, called Bush’s fee of $100,000 a “bargain.”
“We looked at many entertainers and political figures, and they were much higher,” she said. “Hillary Clinton was, like, $250,000.
“We’re a homeless shelter, so it was a hefty fee for us, but we ended up netting over $1 million,” said Sipiora, who identified herself as one of the few Democrats in her area. “It was not a very political conversation. I’m sure he’s answered the same questions a million times. But he was very popular and charming and pleasant.” She said Bush sent her a prompt thank you note in which he mentioned her father by name.
rg9rts June 9th, 2015 at 5:22 am
She is a DINO not a real democrat
Steve Madden June 9th, 2015 at 7:17 am
You can’t prove that. I think she was trying to be politically correct. shrub, the war criminal, should have donated the fee back to them, but he’s a self centered asshole.
Chris Laird June 10th, 2015 at 12:26 am
Put your money where your mouth is.
Margaret Kaufman June 12th, 2015 at 8:55 pm
Every penny he makes, should be donated to the vets he put in harms way. He and Cheney should be speaking only to benefit them. Otherwise they need to be on trail for war crimes.
anothertoothpick June 8th, 2015 at 7:25 pm
Keep this in mind; the rich and the poor are equally forbidden to beg on the streets, to live under the viaduct or to steal bread. So I guess we are all in the same boat.
amersham46 June 8th, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Well he needs to keep a roof over his head too
crc3 June 9th, 2015 at 10:22 am
…and that roof needs to be in a FEDERAL PRISON!…
Obewon June 9th, 2015 at 1:21 am
Bush Jr grifts another $100,000 from a Homeless Shelter! That’s on top of W’s $17 T+ cost for Jr & Cheney’s 12/2007 to 6/2009 Great Recession U.S. asset losses, etc. Jeb / Cheney’16~
rg9rts June 9th, 2015 at 5:20 am
Why would a homeless shelter want him to speak in the first place…he is responsible for creating the problem to begin with
Terrye Cravens June 9th, 2015 at 6:42 am
Like hell he is. Believe it or not there have always been homeless people in this country. Even when Saint Bill was president.
rg9rts June 9th, 2015 at 6:45 am
He added to the population 100 times over…that pos only lined Haliburton’s nest with american blood.. he belongs in the docket of The Hague for crimes against humanity along with the other members of Murder Inc…plenty of room in Spandau.
OldLefty June 9th, 2015 at 7:06 am
It became an epidemic with Saint Ronnie.
Steve Madden June 9th, 2015 at 7:13 am
There were a hell of a lot less before the war criminal became president.
GOP = American Aryan Taliban June 9th, 2015 at 12:07 pm
They likely charge the homeless to use it
Terrye Cravens June 9th, 2015 at 6:43 am
And Hillary Clinton got $250,000. But then again she has a big blue shiny D behind her name…and Bill Clinton? Well, it is obvious that Bill makes money giving speeches…after all, he has to pay the bills. At least they made more money from Bush speaking than they paid. I doubt if they could say that for some sanctimonious liberals. After all, who wants to hear them run their mouths?
OldLefty June 9th, 2015 at 7:03 am
For a homeless shelter?
GOP = American Aryan Taliban June 9th, 2015 at 12:06 pm
Jealous ? What does Shrub talk about ? His failed invasion of Iraq ? The worse recession in US history . Maybe he just reads “Billy the Goat ?
Maxx44 June 9th, 2015 at 8:40 am
How many complete sentences did the $100K buy?
cecilia June 9th, 2015 at 11:30 am
none
crc3 June 9th, 2015 at 10:19 am
Bush is a POS because he should have waved the fee. Didn’t he make enough off of the Iraq war and isn’t his family already filthy rich? Just sayin’….
Judgeforyourself37 June 9th, 2015 at 10:23 am
Who would pay anything to hear GWB speak, unless it was Comedy Central. I agree with crc13, that $100K should have been donated to the shelter. If anyone paid to hear him garble through a speech, I am sure that it was so that wanted a good laugh for a good cause.
glennst010 June 9th, 2015 at 2:47 pm
My imagination runs wild thinking of his opening line.
“My friends, it’s good to be here…” for one. We should hold a contest on who can think up the most “W-like” opening line gaff.
larra June 9th, 2015 at 11:29 am
Politico’s Michael Kruse decided to investigate how Clinton’s successor was doing on what Gerald Ford called the “mashed potato circuit.” The answer: pretty damn well, though exact figures proved suspiciously difficult to track down.
By 2011 President George W Bush “had given some 140 talks, for at least $15 million,” Kruse wrote, noting the trail of information dried up after that. Kruse found that Bush’s customary speaking fee fluctuated between $100,000 and $175,000, and may have gone higher.
At one point, Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a fundraiser for a McKinney homeless shelter:
“We paid his regular fee,” Lynne Sipiora told POLITICO. She’s the executive director of the Samaritan Inn, a homeless shelter in McKinney, Texas. “Which is $100,000.”
Aviendha June 10th, 2015 at 4:38 am
Because they couldn’t afford Hillary’s fee.
GOP = American Aryan Taliban June 9th, 2015 at 11:57 am
You will never hear this on Fake Outrage Noise
Jeb ==The Mexican Impregnator June 9th, 2015 at 12:09 pm
What does he say ? read “Billy the Goat ” again ?
robert June 9th, 2015 at 3:13 pm
Hey money well spent texas ! those kids can wait for a better place to live
bobby1122 June 9th, 2015 at 4:47 pm
The rag known as The NY Times didn’t cover Bush speech money- he’s not running for office- The rag NY Times doesn’t tell you that Hillary Clinton requires you have photo ID to get into her carefully scripted confabs- That’s really racist, Hillary.
OldLefty June 9th, 2015 at 5:24 pm
You mean the NYT who carried water for Bush and loves to bash the Clintons?
And by the way, as for the id?
1) Don’t know if that’s true.
2) Don’t know if that’s a secret service requirement.
3) It’s not a right like voting.
4) Remember the West Virginia couple who were arrested at a Bush event for wearing anti-Bush teeshirts?
5) Remember the coal miners forced to attend the Mitt Romney event?
bobby1122 June 9th, 2015 at 6:12 pm
Remember the Bill and Hillary crime Fund giving $ 100,000 to the NY Times in 2008- buying all the votes and press they could. and then “Bath House Barry” appeared.
arc99 June 9th, 2015 at 6:28 pm
Clinton-haters full of sh*t as usual…..
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/06/clintons-gave-k-to-nyt-fund-in-208412.html
UPDATE (7:00 p.m.): On Monday evening, Murphy sent the following statement to BuzzFeed regarding the timing of the donation:
The Neediest Cases Fund received a $100,000 check from the Clinton Family Foundation on July 24, 2008. It was a replacement check for one dated June 22, 2007, that was apparently sent to an incorrect address and never received. … As you may know, The Times administers the Neediest Cases Fund, which provides direct assistance to New Yorkers in need through seven beneficiary social service agencies. This donation and our editorial board’s endorsement of a candidate in the 2008 Democratic primary have absolutely no connection to one another.
In short, the Clintons intended to donate to the Times fund in 2007, prior to the endorsement.
OldLefty June 9th, 2015 at 6:51 pm
They gave to The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund which is a charity.
And the date is unknown and they endorsed Obama.
As opposed to Bush’s cousin (a member of the “Bush Crime Family” on Fox News calling the 2000 election for Bush before Florida was decided?
Or The MSM, ESPECIALLY Fox failing to report; Ohio
Election Workers Convicted of Manipulating 2004 U.S. Presidential Recount
InternationalHeraldTribune (2007-01-24)
Please.
mstockinger June 9th, 2015 at 6:09 pm
I read Bill and Hillary’s books, and I wasn’t terribly surprised that they were less than forthcoming about things we already knew. Why anyone would pays them large sums to do even less on a speaking tour is a mystery to me. Nevertheless, if people want to pay them for faux accounts of their time in office, then who am I to complain?
The difference between Bush getting paid and the Clintons getting paid is that Bush isn’t using speaking fees or his foundation to wash the money he gets from the Russians or the Chinese to sell out his fellow Americans. If you think the Times has it wrong, don’t produce a child’s argument that “Bush did it too!”, do some journalism and prove that the Clintons are morally irreproachable…
arc99 June 9th, 2015 at 6:25 pm
The Clintons are not washing money from Russia and China to sell out fellow Americans either.
You demand that someone prove that the Clintons are morally irreproachable while you offer not one shred of factual information to support your claims.
So, what is your point?
GOP = American Aryan Taliban June 10th, 2015 at 8:53 am
Ben Ghazi!
tracey marie June 9th, 2015 at 7:34 pm
still butt hurt that mittens had his ass handed to him by Obama
E_Y June 9th, 2015 at 8:55 pm
re: ‘ journalism’
no doubt ……you,.. have proof ,..that the Clinton’s are
‘selling out’ America?…or is that just more of the republican
‘we say it, so must be true’..let’s have a congressional
hearing nonsense.
re” The difference between’
‘W’ came from an ‘silver spoon’ family that pretended to be Texans
and he was, a great ‘cheer leader ‘in college
Bill Clinton came from much more humble beginnings.
re: prove that the Clintons are morally irreproachable…
‘a child’s argument’ ….indeed…….
GOP = American Aryan Taliban June 10th, 2015 at 8:52 am
BullShiitt. The Clinton’s are doing the same as Reagan, Busch, Ben Carson, Rom$ey using the same rules and laws RePukes favor so much.
hypocrite much?
Margaret Kaufman June 12th, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Wait till Obama goes on the speaking circuit…they are going to turn themselves inside out screaming
GOP = American Aryan Taliban June 13th, 2015 at 7:49 am
Busch Lite made over $14m in speeches last year. Why anyone would sit through one of his bumbled talks is beyond me.
mcalleyboy June 9th, 2015 at 9:32 pm
They’re both winners Clinton and Bush, anytime you can get back a trickle of social welfare money (still not yours), social services and wasted volunteer time working your weekends (yours) and then put that money back where it belongs in your pocket, you win.
mcalleyboy June 9th, 2015 at 9:32 pm
They’re both winners Clinton and Bush, anytime you can get back a trickle of social welfare money (still not yours), social services and wasted volunteer time working your weekends (yours) and then put that money back where it belongs in your pocket, you win.
Old Coastie June 10th, 2015 at 12:59 am
Because Hilary wanted $250,000.
James Rocker June 10th, 2015 at 12:48 pm
You Dem fan boys of Clinton realize that Clinton was also contacted, she wanted 250k for speaking at the same event. Bush attending the event caused it to sell out within 48 hours, and the Samaritan Inn (The event organizer) made over 1 million through the event to directly benefit the homeless of Texas. Thank you Bush for continuing to help charities like this one.
Anji McBride June 10th, 2015 at 6:49 pm
for $100,000 a pop. Neither one of those was right. Neither candidate should have charged. Bernie would have done it for free.
Anji McBride June 10th, 2015 at 6:47 pm
Ok, your headline,
more than a little confusing and misleading. He wasn’t charged
$100,000, he charged others. When people read the headline it looks
like your saying he gave $100,000 to speak. So you might want to
re-word your head line to say “Bush made homeless fundraiser pay
him $100,000 to speak at event. Or “Bush would not speak at
fundraiser unless paid $100,000.” Something that makes more sense
and is not so easily misunderstood.
People read Bush
charged $100,000 to speak. It makes it sound like someone made him
pay, rather than the other way around.
Margaret Kaufman June 12th, 2015 at 8:47 pm
Actually, that is what should have happened.
VERITAS June 23rd, 2015 at 9:18 am
Wait a minute, was he charged as in he donated or did HE charge the shelter?