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No Love for Alberto Gonzales

December 06, 2007 05:51 PM ET | Alison Go | Permanent Link | Print

Few of us will ever know what we're worth, but former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has an idea of his value. According to the people at Pomona College, Gonzales's $35,000 price tag (plus expenses) was quite the overestimation, and a school committee took a speaking invitation for the ex-top lawyer off the table, the Student Life reports. As one professor put it, "Call me old-fashioned, but I think there's something really gross about a celebrity lecture circuit that rewards people for misconduct, scandal, and even felony crimes." Not that she's biased or anything.

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Alberto, Not Worth Much

He got $40,000 for speaking in Florida. He was asking $35,000 for Pomona. By my count you'll be able to get him off of the Dollar Menu by the first week in March '08.

ALBERTO GONZALES

HE ALBERTO GONZALES IS A DISGRACE FOR THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY HE IS NOTHING BUT A FRAUD MILLIONS OF HISPANIC PEOPLE SAW HIM AS A DRAEM COME TRUE LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM AND MAKING A NAME FOR THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY HE REPRENSENTED US BUT MONEY ROLLED HIS WAY AND ENDED UP GIVING US AN AWFUL RREPRESENTATION HE IS NOTHING BUT A CORRUPT LEADER NO DIFFERENT FORM WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MEXICO IF HE WOULD HAVE BEEN OVER THERE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH EASIER FOR HIM AND ABSOLUTELY NO CONSEQUENCES FOR HIS FLITHY ACTS OF AMBITION.

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