As a union member and supporter of Hillary Clinton all I can say is thank God and its long overdue!
“After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as chief strategist of the Clinton Campaign,” campaign manager Maggie Williams said in a statement released Sunday
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…
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sabutai says
A few weeks too late yet better late than never. This proves that Hillary Clinton’s loyalty is deep, but hardly inexhaustible.
cardboard-box says
He’s stepping down as a strategist, but he’ll continue as a pollster for the campaign.
hrs-kevin says
All we really know is that he is giving up the title of “chief strategist”, whatever that means.
elfpix says
What a scam, sorry. Penn’s not really gone like Sam Power was tossed. He’s still hanging around, interpreting polls.
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p>And what took her so long? And why didn’t she really cut off her ties to him?
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p>I am so tired of slippery politicians.
striker57 says
So Obama says it and its fact and Clinton says it and it’s a slippery pol talking.
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p>Penn is gone from a visible roll. The Clinton campaign gains nothing from saying he is gone and then having him around so the press can make an issue of it.
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p>I am so tired of the Hillary is evil bloggers
jconway says
She wouldn’t be the nominee with Trippi.
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p>Just ask President Gephardt, President Dean, and President Edwards about how that worked out đŸ˜‰
striker57 says
. . .oh wait, he gave up.
mojoman says
as others have pointed out, he’s just changing titles.
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p>More importantly, he and his firms are still being paid by Hillary. To date her campaign has paid Penn $10,800,000., nearly 10% of her total take in donations.
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p>This is the same Mark Penn who was arguing recently that he wasn’t even on Hillary’s campaign.
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p>Via Miles Mogulescu, here’s a list of some of Penn’s other clients:
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p>• Military mercenary firm Blackwater USA, for whom it coached Blackwater CEO Eric Prince for his Congressional testimony about Blackwater’s killing of Iraqi civilians.
• Ahmen Chalabi, the former Iraqi exile who did as much as anyone to promote America going to war in Iraq and was responsible for providing the phony intelligence from “Curveball”.
• ATT in it lobbying activities for immunity from assisting the Bush administration in its warrentless wiretapping program.
• New Era Cap (and many other corporations) in its efforts to fight unionization.
• Proctor and Gamble is its campaign to defend itself from charges that Olestra causes anal leakage.
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p>No Mark Penn candidate has won an election since 1996, including the failed campaigns of Joe Lieberman in 2004 and far right Italian media-owning Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in 2006. Add one more.
peabody says
Some people go into politics to do good. Others enter it to do well.
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p>There is a reason some people live the good life, drive nice cars, and live in mansions.
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p>Wrong is wrong! Whether it is in Washington or on Beacon Hill.
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p>Democrats need to be true to their ideals!
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p>As we have seen, talk is cheap.
peabody says
Some people go into politics to do good. Others enter it to do well.
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p>There is a reason some people live the good life, drive nice cars, and live in mansions.
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p>Wrong is wrong! Whether it is in Washington or on Beacon Hill.
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p>Democrats need to be true to their ideals!
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p>As we have seen, talk is cheap.
joes says
Lobby for Colombia Trade Pact Casts a Wide Net
By ERIC LIPTON and STEVEN R. WEISMAN
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“To help make its case, Colombia had already hired at least three firms on Capitol Hill, in addition to the work by Mr. Penn’s firm, Burson-Marsteller, paying out from $15,000 to $40,000 a month. Collectively the Colombian government has paid more than $1 million to firms that have negotiated or lobbied on behalf of the deal.
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p>They include the Glover Park Group, the fast-growing firm set up by former Clinton White House aides including Joe Lockhart, who was chief spokesman for the president. (Howard Wolfson, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign communications director, was a partner at the firm but has taken a leave of absence.)
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p>The firm has approached more than a dozen members of Congress, focusing on moderate Democrats who the lobbyists believe might be persuaded to disregard their party leaders and vote in favor of the deal.
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p>Lobbyists at Johnson, Madigan, Peck, Boland & Stewart – whose partners include another former aide in the Clinton White House, Bill Danvers – have separately met with pro-business Democrats like Representative Joseph Crowley of New York. And Andrew Samet, a deputy secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, has been hired under yet another lobbying contract.”
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howland-lew-natick says
The candidates they “support” are just part of a business deal. It matters little the candidate’s party.
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p>Other than the change in names, we will see little change in government no matter who is elected. The campaigns are part of the business of getting elected. Once there the business interests rule.