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In The News: Palin’s Speaking Contract

California State University,Stanislaus students Alicia Lewis, left, and Ashli Briggs, move a cart loaded with documents and shredded papers they say they found on the school's campus that included parts of a speaking contract for former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, after a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, April 13, 2010.   Briggs and Lewis say they were tipped off on April 9, about the attempt to get rid of documents concerning Palin's speaking appearance with the CSU Stanislaus Foundation in June. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)
California State University,Stanislaus students Alicia Lewis, left, and Ashli Briggs, move a cart loaded with documents and shredded papers they say they found on the school's campus that included parts of a speaking contract for former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, after a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Briggs and Lewis say they were tipped off on April 9, about the attempt to get rid of documents concerning Palin's speaking appearance with the CSU Stanislaus Foundation in June. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

California State University,Stanislaus students Alicia Lewis, left, and Ashli Briggs, move a cart loaded with documents and shredded papers they say they found on the school's campus that included parts of a speaking contract for former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, after a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., today. Briggs and Lewis say they were tipped off on April 9, about the attempt to get rid of documents concerning Palin's speaking appearance with the CSU Stanislaus Foundation in June. Story here. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Question: Is there anything wrong with a popular speaker, like Sarah Palin, demanding special things in a speaking contract as a certain size of Lear jet and SUVs to transport her, bendable plastic straws, etc.?



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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