{"id":1782,"date":"2006-04-19T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/ashcroft-who\/"},"modified":"2006-04-19T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T17:54:00","slug":"ashcroft-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/ashcroft-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashcroft who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/18\/AR2006041801748.html?referrer=email\">Ashcroft, No Sellout<\/a> By Al Kamen<\/p>\n<p>Washington State University Vancouver folks were puzzled last week when only 100 people bought advance tickets for former attorney general John D. Ashcroft &#8216;s speech on national security and civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p>After all, last year&#8217;s speaker, newly named Democratic National Committee Chairman <strong>Howard Dean , sold out the 1,100 seats <em>before<\/em> the event<\/strong>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Ashcroft] received a $27,000 speaker&#8217;s fee<\/strong> &#8230;.  And that was substantially less than his usual $60,000. With travel and other costs for receptions and dinners, the tab came to about $36,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean&#8217;s fee, she said, was only $17,000<\/strong>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did an all-out blitz&#8221; to gin up interest among local Republican Party folks and others, Long said. In the end, about 700 showed. Of those, 225 paid the full $10, 400 students were comped and 75 were VIPs. <strong>Several rows in the back were roped off to make the room appear smaller.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A couple of dozen protesters were outside and one inside &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mine\">[mjh: More might have attended if he promised not to sing &#8220;Let the Eagle Soar.&#8221; Names of attendees were added to the Get Out Of Jail Free Database.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashcroft, No Sellout By Al Kamen Washington State University Vancouver folks were puzzled last week when only 100 people bought advance tickets for former attorney general John D. Ashcroft &#8216;s speech on national security and civil liberties. After all, last year&#8217;s speaker, newly named Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean , sold out the 1,100 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/ashcroft-who\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ashcroft who?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}