Several media figures have attacked Democratic presidential candidate John
Edwards for receiving a $55,000 fee for a January 2006 speech at the University
of California-Davis -- as first reported in a May 21 entry
to the San Francisco Chronicle's Politics Blog. In several cases, they have not
also mentioned reports that Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani
charged Oklahoma State University $100,000 for a speech he delivered in 2006 and
an additional $47,000 for the use of a private jet, as Media Matters for America
has noted. Moreover,
several left out the response by the Edwards campaign, which asserted that
UC-Davis offset the cost through sponsorship and ticket sales to the event.
The point that they are missing isn't that he is a democrat but that the speech was about poverty. The disconnect between taking $55k, for making a speech to get people to do more to relieve poverty strike me as being off. If you want to help the poor, than you give your services for free. If need be you can ask for enough to cover a hotel, and a car rental.
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