Michael Gorbachev at Earth Summit

JBrown72073 at cs.com JBrown72073 at cs.com
Thu Aug 29 16:00:19 PDT 2002


In a message dated 8/28/02 8:27:37 PM, owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com writes:

Chris Doss wrote:
>I think the majority of the money gained from G's speaking appearances
>in the West goes to financing the Green Cross International and the Social
>Democratic Party of Russia. He certainly can't get much money speaking
>in Russia, 'cause no one likes him enough to pay a lot. (I think almost all
>of the $5 million from the Pizza Hut ad went to the GCI.)

Yeah, Gorbachev said the money from the University of Florida gig was going to GCI. I was amused to see our notoriously conservative student government pay a socialist more than they paid another former president of a superpower, GHW Bush, who got around $75K, I think it was, for a half hour winge last year.

Jenny Brown



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