Sunday, December 19, 2004
Obama gets a book deal
-- He is not a senator yet so he didn't have to put it to the ethics committee (I think). So good for him, he has a tremendous oportunity in the senate and I think he has enough brains not to screw it up.
OneMan
Leveraging his best-selling memoir, Sen.-elect Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is poised to sign a three-book deal landing him a $1.9 million advance.
The package includes a $200,000 payment for a children's volume that will be donated to charity.
The deal was announced by Obama's office Friday but is contingent on the approval of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, a panel which routinely reviews book contracts for sitting senators for any violation of conflict-of- interest and other rules governing the conduct of senators and their staffers
-- He is not a senator yet so he didn't have to put it to the ethics committee (I think). So good for him, he has a tremendous oportunity in the senate and I think he has enough brains not to screw it up.
OneMan
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