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HillaryClinton.com announced Friday that a contest was underway to raffle three prizes:
Plane tickets and accommodations for two are included in each package. Deadline to enter is April 23, and winners will be notified by April 28, 2009 via telephone.
The American Idol weekend is likely worth more financially, and being shown the national monuments by media pundits James Carville and Paul Begala (business partners and previous co-hosts of CNN Crossfire) is certainly no slouch vacation. However, no one will be surprised if the most popular selection will be for Bill’s time.
Upon choosing a possible prize, variety buttons encourage visitors to make a credit card contribution of as little as $10 or as much as $2,300. Or, you can scroll down the page and click the link to "Enter Without Contributing."
In 2007, the campaign ran a contest to watch televised debates alongside Bill Clinton, and the blogosphere was suddenly abuzz over the email Bill sent to Hillary’s mass email subscription list, famously stating: "You, me, a TV and a bowl of chips." Other contests that year and in 2008 promoted lunches with the former First Lady, banking on obvious celebrity appeal.
Hillary Clinton ended her presidential campaign $20 million in debt, though their contests and other subsequent donations have now whittled that down to $6 million. Still, that’s most than most people have on their credit reports, so after lunches and television-watching, they’ve stepped up the efforts to encourage donation by putting people out on the town.
They don’t say what the limits are to the excursions in the Big Apple – if they are pre-arranged or if the winner gets to choose their own sight-seeing menu. Can you make the ex-President take you to the Statue of Liberty? What if you want to go jogging in Central Park, will he suit up and run too? How about hockey playoffs at Madison Square Gardens? If anyone can get his hands on post-season New York Rangers tickets, it’s got to be Bill.
The Secret Service must hate this sort of thing
Posted April 11th, 2009 by Heather Archuletta
