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Palin Tea Party Convention Speaking Fee Sparks $500,000 Lawsuit Between Wealthy Donor, Organizer

First Posted: 03-24-10 08:10 PM   |   Updated: 03-24-10 08:17 PM

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The Tea Party Convention is over. But the war it started is apparently just getting under way. Yesterday, Bill Hemrick, a conservative fund-raiser and the founder of the Upper Deck baseball trading-card company, sued the for-profit convention's organizer, Judson Phillips, in Williamson County Circuit Court in Tennessee, in a dispute over Sarah Palin's speaking fee. When Palin agreed to deliver the keynote address at the convention, it put the event in the news. And it was Hemrick, all agree, who provided the $50,000 down payment for Palin's $100,000 speaking fee.

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The Tea Party Convention is over. But the war it started is apparently just getting under way. Yesterday, Bill Hemrick, a conservative fund-raiser and the founder of the Upper Deck baseball trading-ca...
The Tea Party Convention is over. But the war it started is apparently just getting under way. Yesterday, Bill Hemrick, a conservative fund-raiser and the founder of the Upper Deck baseball trading-ca...
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- jerry54 I'm a Fan of jerry54 permalink
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I met a fool who was trying to burn down my house. i asked him why he had a torch in his hand? He said you have ants in the cellar. I begged him not to start a fire. he said you must love ants. I tried to tell him no i didn't love ants but there are better ways to deal with the problem. but he was a fool and wouldn't listen. He just tried to stop me from trying to put out the fire as my house started to burn down and the thieves and crooks began to carry of my belongings I tried to stop them but they laughed and said that i was greedy, selfish and a trouble maker. that's how the Democrats( socialists) operate.

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 06:46 PM on 3/25/2010
- fedupinfla I'm a Fan of fedupinfla 53 fans permalink
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Oh wow...I don't even have words to describe how idiotic & misinformed you truly are...

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 08:38 PM on 3/25/2010

Typical Liberal NOISE. You alwasy pick the race card to play, because you have no other cardsto play. The Tea party and those individuals fed up with the Federal government serious concersn for this countr. Rememeber Obummer oops i mean obama was not elected KIng he was electred president and with taht he is to work for all teh people. Rememeber those of us who hae jobs - maybe you are not familar with that term- work hard for a money ahve teh right - yes right to keep it and not give it away to those who decided not to get an education ad/or wrk hard. Life isn't fair and that is how it is in a republic which we are. So instead of drawing the race card, why don;t you get an education and bteter yourself. Here is a little joke to leave you with!

What do you call a democratic with a job - a Republican!!!!!!

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 06:02 PM on 3/25/2010
- New edified I'm a Fan of edified 14 fans permalink
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Gee imagine that, you and jerry making your first comments. Isn't that special., you 2 should get together, "funny" how you sound exactly a like.

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 07:49 PM on 3/26/2010
- vgirl1 I'm a Fan of vgirl1 105 fans permalink

THIS EVENT TURNED OUT TO BE EXACTLY WHAT THE TEABAGGER CONVENTION WAS ALL ABOUT.

IT WAS AN ORCHESTRATED ASSEMBLAGE OF RACIALLY BIASED, CLASS CONSCIOUS, SO CALLED RELIGIOUS PEOPLE SPURRED ON BY WEALTHY AND / OR OPPORTUNISTIC REPUGNANT ACTIVISTS WHO WERE OUT FOR THEIR OWN PROFIT AND POLITICAL ADVANTAGE WITH NO REAL CONCERN FOR THOSE THEY SOLICITIED AND ASSEMBLED.

THE POOR MOUTH TEABAGGERS CONTINUE TO THROW AWAY THEIR SUPPOSEDLY SHRINKING FINANCES TO MAKE THE DARLINGS AND HEADS OF THE REPUGNANTS RICHER, WHILE INDIVIDUAL TEABAGGERS SCREAM ABOUT PAYING TAXES TO KEEP POLICE AND FIREMEN ON THE JOB, TEACHERS IN THE SCHOOLS, BRIDGES AND ROADS SOUND AND EXTEND HEALTHCARE TO THE UNINSURED.

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 04:43 PM on 3/25/2010
- JaxReader I'm a Fan of JaxReader 12 fans permalink
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(Your Caps Lock might be on)

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 06:12 PM on 3/25/2010
- rsquire I'm a Fan of rsquire permalink

Tea party goons are nothing but anarchist – violent and destructive opponents to the government. All they spout in their garbage verbiage is that the government can not do anything right and should not be involved???? Looks like social security works OK, the unemployment system that helps millions when their greedy bosses lay them off works OK, NASA seems to operate OK, Medicare and Medicaid which pay for medical help and prescriptions for the poor and retired works OK, the Army, Navy and Air Force seem to operate OK. The SEC and the FDIC work except for times when rich bankers and lawyers pay off republican politicians (Bush, Cheney, Phil Gramm) to get rules changed so the banks can loose billions of dollars while the middle class tax payer bails them out. These pigs are pawns working for large banks, insurance companies, and big corporations who don’t want any changes so the rich can get richer while the middle class and poor work to make them more money and get them more power.

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 04:14 PM on 3/25/2010

To: Mr Gault, Sarah Palin & Rush Limbaugh. You should be telling all those Conservative Republicans to cancel their Government Health Care paid for by tax dollars. Thats "Socialism " remember that term you conservatives have been using. All the Republican LawMakers in Congress & all the Senators should be dropping their tax payer paid health insurance and going out and getting their own if they really want to make a statement. Let us just see how many drop their health insurance paid for by tax dollars, it's a government run insurance program. Call all of them and see just how many of them are willing to drop the coverage, I'll bet none!

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 03:57 PM on 3/25/2010
- enlightened45 I'm a Fan of enlightened45 104 fans permalink
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Lawsuits within the Tea Party, who would have thought? By the way which charity was that money donated to..the Palin Fund for buying everything in sight?

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 03:41 PM on 3/25/2010
- Chazmania I'm a Fan of Chazmania 120 fans permalink
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Everyone sing!
Psych0 Palin.. oh keska Say fa fa fa faa, fa fa fa faa faa, faaaar, ruun run run away! ooooh ...

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 03:21 PM on 3/25/2010
- LittleMittens I'm a Fan of LittleMittens 30 fans permalink

And now the teabaggers begin to implode! Delicious!

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 02:51 PM on 3/25/2010
- Bronxdude I'm a Fan of Bronxdude 610 fans permalink

Palin “the palm reader” presidential material—really? After graduating from Wasilla High School (cited in a Johns Hopkins’ study as a perennial "dropout factory”), Palin attended 5 no-name colleges in 6 years to finally squeak out a 4 year degree in mass communications (such a rigorous and exacting discipline). During her 6 year higher education odyssey, one of the schools she transferred to was Matanuska Susitna Community College (no doubt a breeding ground for Rhode Scholars), where she attended for only 1 semester on a beauty pageant scholarship. While Palin “the quitter” may be short on scholarly achievement, she far out-paces Obama when it comes to filling out college applications and attending unranked institutions of higher learning. Eight years of Bush taught me that the President should be intelligent, articulate, capable of grasping several complex concepts simultaneously, insightful and able to comprehend the written word from left to right, skills Palin will never possess. Unfortunately, the anti-intellectual crusade embraced and subscribed to by republicans has opened the door for incompetents like Bush and Palin. Like the proverbial “Manchurian Candidate,” Palin is an empty, mindless vessel waiting to be programmed by the Neocons.

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 02:17 PM on 3/25/2010
- Siva Nathan I'm a Fan of Siva Nathan 2 fans permalink

Mentally tiring just reading her 'intrepid' schooling. No wonder she has no substance in her speeches. She is like a 'rolling stone that gathers no moss'.

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 02:27 PM on 3/25/2010
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Is there no end to the "Palin fad" in sight? Have they no others to speak at these conventions?

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 02:10 PM on 3/25/2010

Hmmmm. Palin fee, tea party organizer donor rift, lawsuit.

Guess the speakey thing didn't work out too well.

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 01:25 PM on 3/25/2010
- TAC I'm a Fan of TAC 62 fans permalink
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LOL. How's that greedy speaky thing workin' out fer ya?

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 01:47 PM on 3/25/2010
- fairplaystacy I'm a Fan of fairplaystacy 88 fans permalink

awesome

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 12:53 PM on 3/25/2010
- NoPretenses I'm a Fan of NoPretenses 19 fans permalink
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He was look for the "blue light special" and all he got was a hand job.

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 12:22 PM on 3/25/2010
- Justdontgetit I'm a Fan of Justdontgetit 70 fans permalink

Buyer's remorse?

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 12:01 PM on 3/25/2010
- DimBulb2 I'm a Fan of DimBulb2 447 fans permalink
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Another picture of the new SP bl0wup doll

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 12:00 PM on 3/25/2010
- Justdontgetit I'm a Fan of Justdontgetit 70 fans permalink

Aw, come on. Be correct.

That isn't just a bl0wup doll, that is official Rethug bl0wup doll.

    Reply     Favorite     Flag as abusive Posted 12:54 PM on 3/25/2010
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