# Palin contract found in trash **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008 "2010-04-14T01:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/1 "2010-04-14T01:33:53Z")
It’s all over the news tonight that a contract between Sarah Palin and the Univ. of California system has emerged. "Sarah Palin will get first-class airfare for two and three rooms at a luxury hotel when she gives a speech in June for a university foundation. And organizers better not forget to stock her lectern with two water bottles and bendable straws. The details of Palin’s contract with the California State University, Stanislaus Foundation were contained in five pages of the document retrieved from a campus trash bin by students who heard administrators might be shredding documents related to the speech." She also demanded to fly first class from Anchorage to California — if she flies commercial. If not, “the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger …,” the contract specifies. There’s nothing terribly damaging in it, I mean she didn’t demand a human act as her foot rest. But does it damage her credibility as 'one of the guys?" ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/2 "2010-04-14T01:47:51Z")
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/3 "2010-04-14T01:58:53Z")
Can’t get too excited. She’s no different than any other paid celebrity in this regard, and has long since passed out of the “regular guy” realm she inhabited ten years ago. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/4 "2010-04-14T02:51:52Z")
[The contract.](http://www.docstoc.com/docs/33993256/Sarah-Palin-contract-California-State-University-Stanislaus-rescued-from-dumpster) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/5 "2010-04-14T03:02:46Z")
Where is the part that says The Great Deceiver gets her immortal soul? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/6 "2010-04-14T04:24:22Z")
> [@Palo\_Verde](#): > > But does it damage her credibility as 'one of the guys?" No. Are you kidding? She quit as governor of Alaska to get a multimillion dollar book deal. She gets all kinds of high priced speaking gigs. And even before that, there was the whole ‘she blew RNC funds on clothes’ thing. Her fans don’t care. What matters to them is that she stands for the right things and is the right kind of person. They don’t think she’s poor, or that she’s supposed to be. On the other hand this is bad for CSU. They’ve claimed the details of her speaking gig shouldn’t be public because the Stanislaus Foundation is separate from the school, which appears to be partially true at best. And I think they then said they didn’t have the contract. Oops- turns out they had the contract and it looks like they tried to destroy it. So they’ve made a series of stupid moves and are looking like lying jackasses. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/7 "2010-04-14T04:33:56Z")
I would just like to point out that the University of California, of which I am an alumni, and California State University are two totally different schools. My school had nothing to do with this, it’s the CalState School that fucked up here. I point this out only because the OP got it wrong. (Nothing against the OP, it’s an easy mistake to make. They sound similar) ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/8 "2010-04-14T04:52:15Z")
Celebrities have had odd [riders](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/index.html) in their contracts for some time now. The Smoking Gun considers [Iggy Pop’s](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/iggypop/iggypop1.html) rider to be the best of the ones it’s got. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/9 "2010-04-14T04:57:42Z")
So she wanted a bowl full of brown M&Ms? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/10 "2010-04-14T05:48:43Z")
This looks worse for Cal State than Palin. Why are they spending like this in a bad economy on someone who is a dim bulb popstar? ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/11 "2010-04-14T05:56:03Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > This looks worse for Cal State than Palin. Why are they spending like this in a bad economy on someone who is a dim bulb popstar? Thought you wrote “pornstar” for a second that. Actually several seconds. It didn’t seem out of context, for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/12 "2010-04-14T05:58:06Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > This looks worse for Cal State than Palin. Why are they spending like this in a bad economy on someone who is a dim bulb popstar? Because Turlock is still stuck back in the 50’s and this place is lousy with churches. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/13 "2010-04-14T05:59:30Z")
Didn’t she sell the Governor’s plane on Ebay because flying coach was good enough for her? ---
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/14 "2010-04-14T07:05:40Z")
I’m of two minds about this. The CSUs were even more broke than we are; Wiki sez CSUS’s endowment shrunk 24% last year. My first thought was what’re they doing with someone so high-maintenance as her when they have furlough days every other week and entire majors are disappearing, notwithstanding she’s stupid and meanspirited. But on the other hand, they’re doing a fundraiser, not an academic thing, and if the school can start to pay its employees again and make a few teabagger’s wallets $500 lighter, more power to them. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/15 "2010-04-14T12:42:02Z")
> [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](#): > > Wiki sez CSUS’s endowment shrunk 24% last year. So? So did mine last time I took a cold shower, you don’t see _me_ bragging about it on Wikipedia, do ya? Well, I did, but I challenge you to find _where_ … ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/16 "2010-04-14T12:55:11Z")
Would anyone be surprised if this was anybody else’s rider? It seems pretty standard run of the mill stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/17 "2010-04-14T12:56:34Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > So she wanted a bowl full of brown M&Ms? 1 girl, 1 bowl. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/18 "2010-04-14T13:04:16Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Celebrities have had odd [riders](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/index.html) in their contracts for some time now. The Smoking Gun considers [Iggy Pop’s](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/iggypop/iggypop1.html) rider to be the best of the ones it’s got. Christ that Iggy Pop rider is hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/19 "2010-04-14T13:11:59Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Would anyone be surprised if this was anybody else’s rider? It seems pretty standard run of the mill stuff. Actually that’s pretty tame by professional speaker standards, although the airplane stuff is more specific than many. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008/20 "2010-04-14T15:43:57Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Didn’t she sell the Governor’s plane on Ebay because flying coach was good enough for her? Yes. That plane was a lightning rod, purchased by the former governor, Frank Murkowski, over everyone’s objections. It couldn’t land on most of Alaska’s bush airstrips and was purely a function of Murky’s ego. I won a local radio contest to name the jet. My entry: Bald Ego; My prize: A plastic model of the plane. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/palin-contract-found-in-trash/536008.md?page=2)