Hillary Clinton‘s promoters painted her as a woman of the people when they last month told Chicago Inc. that tickets to the Chicago stop of her upcoming book tour would start at just $45 — far less than she’s charging fans in New York and other cities.
But when they finally went on sale Wednesday morning, the tickets came with a dose of sticker shock. At $75, plus a $13.50 “processing fee,” the cheapest seats were nearly twice the originally promised price.
Clinton spokesman John Tellem, who first said on Aug. 28 that tickets would start at $45, repeated that on Wednesday, telling Chicago Inc. that the $45 tickets did exist but “sold out quickly.”
But Roosevelt University’s Auditorium Theater confirmed that the cheapest tickets were in fact $75, and Tellem later revised his statement.
It isn’t all bad news for Clinton who — judging by brisk sales of tickets even at the higher price range (VIP tickets including a meet and greet with Clinton, which have cost over $2,000 in other cities, quickly sold out) — can still draw an audience willing to pay a premium to hear her speak.
In leaked excerpts of her forthcoming book, “What Happened,” she partially blames Bernie Sanders for her election loss to President Donald Trump, says Sanders is not a real Democrat and says her marriage to Bill Clinton has had “many, many more happy days than sad or angry ones.”
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