Former President Bill Clinton is speaking in Marin, Oakland and San Mateo this week as part of a speaker series, but don't expect to hear much about it in the media.
That is because MPSF Inc., the company that runs the MPSF Speaker Series, provides no press passes.
Clinton spoke at the Marin Veterans' Memorial Auditorium in San Rafael on Monday night and will speak there again Thursday night. He was scheduled to speak at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on Tuesday night and at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center on Wednesday night.
"We just don't allow the press," said Natalie Weil, MPSF's director of operations. "That's the way it is. It's not going to change."
When contacted by the Independent Journal in January, Weil said Clinton also stipulated the press was to be barred from the events.
"It's in his contract," Weil said at the time.
ENDS - Read more at http://www.marinij.com/article/ZZ/20150203/NEWS/150207518
This year it was Julia Gillard who jumped on the 4 day special bandwagon for MPSF.
| Julia Gillard | Jan. 18, 2016 | Jan. 19, 2016 | Jan. 20, 2016 | Jan. 21, 2016 |
And who wouldn't get along to hear from this SuperWoman. According to the notes, Ms Gillard
- built a national broadband network
- was central to the successful management of Australia during the Global Financial Crisis
- positioned Australia to seize the benefits of Asia’s rise
- reformed Australian education at every level
- created an emissions trading scheme,
- improved the sustainability of health care, aged care and dental care
- inaugurated Australia's first ever national program caring for people with disabilities; and,
- she also restructured the telecommunications sector
Something for just about every marketing manager to quote in justifying the outrageous fee to hear the wisdom.
Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard was the first female Australian Prime Minister, sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister in 2010 and serving until 2013. In 2012 and 2013, she was on the Forbes magazine list of the “World’s Most Powerful Women,” and was also a nominee for TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Previously, Ms. Gillard served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and Social Inclusion.
Gillard was central to the successful management of Australia during the Global Financial Crisis and as the country positioned to seize the benefits of Asia’s rise. She delivered nation-changing policies reforming Australian education at every level, creation of an emissions trading scheme, improving the provision and sustainability of health care, aged care and dental care, and commencing the nation’s first ever national program caring for people with disabilities. She also restructured the telecommunications sector, and built a national broadband network.
Gillard’s foreign policies strengthened Australia’s relationships with the United States, China, India, Japan, Indonesia and South Korea, and her efforts resulted in Australia winning hosting rights for several international meetings, including the 2014 G20 Summit. Under her leadership, Australia was elected to the UN Security Council and in 2012, she received worldwide attention for her speech in Parliament on the treatment of women in professional and public life.
In 2013, she was appointed a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, working with the Center for Universal Education, and in 2014 was appointed Chair of the Board of the Global Partnership for Education. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Adelaide, and published My Story, a book on her service as Prime Minister, last year.
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PS - No wonder Bernie Sanders is catching up on Hilary. According to his disclosure statements, the Sanders family took in $205,617 in 2014 (Bill Clinton often does that in 20 minutes). They had $140,994 in taxable income and paid the feds nearly $28,000 in taxes , for an effective federal tax rate of about 20 percent.
Sanders had an estimated net worth of $330,000 in 2013,
I think quite a lot of people on the left and on the right are sick of the shysters, carpet baggers and cigar (ahem) munchers.
Candidates who say what they mean and mean what they say seem to be flavour of the month.
Roll on election 2016 Australia.