Sarah Palin to donate speaking fee from Tea Party Convention

Sarah Palin announced that she will attend the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee this week, where she will serve as the keynote speaker for the event. Palin also said in a blog in USA Today that she will not "benefit financially from the $100,000 speaking fee she is going to earn. Instead she is going to donate the money to support grassroots activists. Paul Wylie for Digital Journal reported yesterday that Palin would be working with grassroots campaigns and with activists giving back to the people that had helped to support her thus far. While Fox News reported that Representative Michele Bachmann, R-Minn and Marsha Blackburn R-Tenn. both backed out after the House ethics committee urged them to do so. Palin has stood her ground stating that "I will not benefit financially from speaking at this event. My only goal is to support the grassroots activists who are fighting for responsible, limited government -- and our Constitution."