Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Modesto Bee: Valley GOP backs Sarah Palin visit

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State Sen. Leland Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, has been trying to make political hay out of Sarah Palin's scheduled June visit to California State University, Stanislaus, where the university's nonprofit foundation signed her to speak at the school's 50th anniversary celebration. Yee says the foundation should disclose Gov. Palin's speaking fee, although the terms of her Washington Speakers Bureau contract with the foundation explicitly states that the fee is not to be disclosed.

Now the Modesto Bee reports that four GOP state lawmakers have jumped into the fray on Sarah Palin's side:
State Sens. Jeff Denham of Atwater and Dave Cogdill of Modesto with Assemblymen Tom Berryhill of Modesto and Bill Berryhill of Ceres wrote a letter to CSU Chancellor Charles Reed praising the foundation for bringing Palin to campus.

The foundation is charged with raising money to support the school, and it's technically not part of the university.

"As the old adage goes, sometimes it takes money to make money. The sold out (with a waiting list) event that features former Gov. Sarah Palin as the keynote speaker for the 50th Anniversary Celebration was clearly a stroke of marketing genius; one that will clearly help fund student scholarships and other campus activities," the lawmakers wrote.
Welcome to the party, guys.

- JP

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