Though the brouhaha over Gov. Palin's scheduled June appearance on a California State University campus is no longer a hot topic in the national headlines, it's still simmering in the Golden State. Bill Mattos has an update:
If you aren’t sick of hearing about the controversy surrounding former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s planned visit to California State University, Stanislaus, then keep on reading... The Central Valley has more people who like her than hate her... By all indications, this will be the university’s biggest money maker in years……or ever!Exactly.
When Palin decided to come, she also wanted the contract to be confidential; she apparently didn’t want her fee disclosed... If Palin gave the university a deal in coming to Turlock (less than $100,000 that she has received from other venues), she probably doesn’t want the world to know about it. She will be negotiating for many other speaking engagements this year and one would think she would want to make the most money possible. She, after all, is no longer a public official...
So now, the university is doing its best to deal with the controversy; the fact that thousands of dollars are pouring in for the big event, offsets some of the grief coming from television, radio and newspapers.
Students are also protesting Palin’s appearance, and they found (among some shredded documents) a few pages of the Palin contract. Now the students and others are trying to say that the university was shredding evidence. University officials say someone took part of the Palin contract from the office. What makes some of this argument a bit ridiculous is that some of us wonder how you could think that the university would have shredded every document except for the Palin contract…which is allegedly the exact reason for the shredding?
- JP
