Let the Market Decide
Posted on | June 12, 2007
Last year’s price for your photo taken with the leader of the free world: ten thousand dollars. The supply of and demand for lame duck being what they are, though, he’s a much cheaper date these days, says Newsweek’s Holly Bailey:
…Yesterday, Bush headlined a fundraiser for the New Jersey state GOP, where donors could pay $5,000 to pose for a photo with the Commander in Chief. Expensive photo op, right? Well, that’s actually cheaper that what donors paid just a year ago for a grip and grin with Bush. Last summer, GOP officials around the country charged at least $10,000 a pop for presidential photo op, a bargain compared to the $25,000-a-flash Bush commanded during some Republican National Committee fund-raisers back in 2000 and 2004…
