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...Hillary Clinton, by contrast, never insisted on any such promise from her political guru, Mark Penn. Indeed, the potential for conflict only increased when - as Clinton was launching her Senate reelection campaign in 2005, in a test run for a potential presidential bid in 2008 - Penn was named worldwide CEO of Burson-Marsteller, one of the largest firms in the world of public relations, a field in which Washington advocacy has been playing a bigger and bigger role. Last year, Bloomberg News reported that Penn's private blog for his Burson-Marsteller colleagues included an entry titled: "Workin With Hillary...
...Penn has long been the most controversial figure in Clinton's political orbit, in part because his other relationships have repeatedly placed her campaign in an uncomfortable position. Among his firm's clients have been drug companies, a tuna industry group, a tobacco firm and the controversial military contractor Blackwater USA. What finally forced Penn's demotion was a Wall Street Journal report last Friday that, as part of a contract Burson-Marsteller had entered into, he had met with the Colombian ambassador to discuss promoting a free-trade agreement with that country - even as Clinton was denouncing the deal...
...choice to step into the gap left by Penn, who was pressured to step aside after the Wall Street Journal revealed last week that he had advised the Colombian government on its efforts to win passage of a bilateral trade treaty with the United States - a deal that Hillary Clinton opposes. Not only did Penn's work put him at odds with the stated position of his candidate, but it outraged Clinton's allies in organized labor, whose efforts she is counting on to help her win the make-or-break Pennsylvania primary on April...
...clients from the corporate and philanthropic worlds, as well as advocacy groups like EMILY's List, a political organization that raises money for pro-choice Democratic women candidates. And while he will continue advising other clients, he says it will not present a conflict with his work for the Clinton campaign, as most of his work with corporate clients is on business-to-business issues, not government policies...
...while, it looked as though Garin might be sidelined from the 2008 race, after his initial client - former Virginia Governor Mark Warner - decided not to run. Garin began working quietly for the Clinton campaign about three weeks ago, and has chosen not to take an official title, which is a sharp contrast from Penn, who insisted on being referred to as the campaign's "chief strategist...