How funny - i guess this is why press isn't allowed at HRC's fundraisers

[dorkzilla]

Ticket sales for the two-hour private event were slow—the cheapest seats, at $250 a person, were still available for purchase Wednesday afternoon. The most expensive, at $2,700 a piece, were also available. The announcement of a similarly-priced fundraiser early next month with Bill, Elton John, Katy Perry and Hillary herself, did nothing to help sales. Still, because the campaign barred press from the event, as they do at almost every fundraiser, I bought a ticket as a guest and expensed it to Gawker Media.

Hillary has, in fact, had a hard time of late selling her ostensibly millennial-themed events to millennials, at least in New York City. A few weeks before Wednesday’s bowling alley fundraiser, Chelsea Clinton hosted a fundraiser/exercise class at the TriBeCa location of the indoor cycling chain SoulCycle. Many of the 62 available bikes, priced between $500 and $2,700 for the 45 minute class, which Chelsea attended but did not participate in, went unsold. According to CNN, some seats were sold immediately before the class was set to begin—for $50.

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And I just love this part of Billy Boy's speech -

“College should be affordable for everyone. But it doesn’t make sense to take income tax money and recycle it through the government to give free tuition, because that would just explode tuition. And guess who told me that yesterday. I was in Greenville, South Carolina and this woman was practically crying, she wouldn’t let go of my hand, and she said, ‘I’m a college loan officer. My whole life is devoted to making sure as many young people as possible can get into and out of college without having backbreaking debt.’ And she said, ‘I may be one of the few people who doesn’t list the bumper stickers and slogans, I’ve actually read the plan, and her plan is lightyears better for millennials. If they actually read and understood what the proposals were and the world that we’re living in, they would all be supporting her because they’ll be better if she gets to be president.’”

http://gawker.com/i-watched-bill-clinton-not-play-the-saxophone-at-a-bowl-1759877462

[Depaysement]

1. Here's the best line

" . . . we are going to let them pay for college like they pay for a home, over twenty years."

What he really means is: " . . . we are going to let them pay for college instead of a home, over twenty years."

[retrowire]

4. I thought this line was pretty good too...

...this woman was practically crying, she wouldn’t let go of my hand, and she said, ‘I’m a college loan officer. My whole life is devoted to making sure as many young people as possible can get into and out of college without having backbreaking debt.’

Horse shit. That's like saying a bank cries because it can't save people enough money. If people really eat this shit up then I'm truly impressed.

[malokvale77]

5. I think the real reason she was crying...

is she would be out of her cushy job.

[Depaysement]

7. He was clearly lying

Typical Bill Bullshit. Never. Happened.

[dorkzilla]

8. My thought exactly.

Pure horse shit.

[Cleita]

2. When this circus began the scuttlebutt I heard at Democratic hdqts. when I volunteered was

that all her fund raisers of that ilk were going to be $2,700 apiece with the idea that she would get the maximum donation as quickly as possible. It seems Bernie's $27 per person donations have lowered the expectations so I guess the cheaper seats are now being offered.

[SoapBox]

3. Barfo!

Wasn't her education plan, work to pay for school?

No More Clintons.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

6. I think I just vomited in my mouth a little bit. n/t