Archive for the ‘mark+penn’ Category

Obama spends less; Clinton debt $25.2M - $5.3M to College Republican Mark Penn

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Clinton has continued to raise money and Obama has asked that his donors help her as well to reduce her debt. Clinton owed $5.3 million to her senior adviser and pollster Mark Penn, but aides to Clinton said she first intends to pay off small vendors owed money by the ...

Mark Penn’s Wife Feeding At The Democratic Trough

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Those who questioned the propriety of Clinton's decision to appoint as chief campaign strategist Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller -- the premier public relations and lobbying shop in Washington -- have received further confirmation of their jaundiced views: the announcement that Burson Marsteller has signed up former Bush communications honcho ...

Penn out as Clinton senior strategist

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

Mark Penn, the pollster and senior strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid, left the campaign Sunday after it was disclosed he met with representatives of the Colombian government to help promote a free trade agreement Clinton opposes.Read the full story

Comment is free: Will Clinton spoil the party?

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

This is the first time in my memory that a major candidate in a primary has said that the other party's nominee would be a better president than his or her own primary opponent. We also had the outpouring of negative advertising from her campaign that both candidates had largely ...

Top Clinton Consultant Leads Corrupt Corporate PR Firm

Friday, October 5th, 2007

In addition to his role as a top campaign consultant to the Clinton campaign, Mark Penn is the worldwide president and CEO of Burson-Marsteller. The firm's lobbying subsidiary BKSH helped Blackwater's top executive, Erik Prince, prepare for his congressional testimony this week.Read the full story