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04.04.2008 6:13 pm

Mark Penn takes a hit

WASHINGTON — The campaign strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is taking some heat from labor leaders.

Change to Win executive director Greg Tarpinian spoke out about reports that Clinton’s chief campaign strategist Mark Penn met Monday with Colombia’s ambassador regarding the Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

“It’s time for Sen. Hillary Clinton to send her vaunted ‘chief strategist’ Mark Penn packing — back to his job consulting for union-busting corporations and anti-labor governments for good…The latest revelation that Penn — whose firm represents the Colombian government in its effort to secure passage of a so-called free-trade agreement — is actively involved in securing its passage in the middle of Sen. Clinton’s presidential campaign is outrageous. It also suggests that he has been playing a double role – advising the senator on what to say to curry Democratic voters and advising the Colombian government on what to say to curry a majority of votes in Congress.”

Bruce Raynor, president of UNITE HERE, said, “That Clinton’s chief strategist would be working hand in hand with the government of Columbia and the Bush administration while candidate Clinton
says she opposes the agreement is truly incredible, even by today’s crazy standards.

A disturbing pattern is emerging in the Clinton campaign,” Raynor said. “She seems to regularly take positions on important issues which are refuted by her own actions, or those of her top campaign staff.”

Change to Win supports Barack Obama’s presidential bid. It bears noting that a few weeks ago it was reported that as Obama was blasting NAFTA, a campaign aide was apparently telling the Canadian government that it shouldn’t worry, because the talk was mostly campaign rhetoric.


 

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— mark penn
8:02 pm April 4th, 2008

Sleazy person serving a sleazy candidate. I hope people see through the facade of lies and deception practice by Ms.Clinton and her entrouge.

— kalyan
8:31 pm April 4th, 2008

Both Clintons have a decade-long relationship with Mark Penn.

The same Mark Penn that has earned millions to represent anti-union interests and companies, resulting in loss of benefits - including health care and retirement. What a slap in “the face to Hillary and Bill’s so-called “base”, union workers and working-class Americans.

This is also the same Mark Penn that is now pushing for a free-trade agreement in a country where union workers have been murdered repeatedly; an agreement that has the potential to result in even more lost jobs for our working-class families.

Hillary Clinton knows exactly what Mark Penn represents, which is everything she “claims” not to.

If she truly cared about working-class citizens she would have “denounced” and “rejected” her relationship with Mr. Penn many years ago.

Hillary has repeatedly denounced Obama for relationships, yet puts this man, who is the epitome of anti-Democratic values and concerns, front and center in her campaign.

I feel so sorry for the working class in this country who are being duped by Hillary. What a price they will pay if this ultra-rich, hypocritical, in-bed-with-the-Republicans, power hungry, compulsive liar makes her way into the White House at the expense of the working poor who put her there.

— njs
8:56 pm April 4th, 2008

If this is true why does AFLCIO member and Union Man Alderman Gregali of the 14th Ward support her and is a delegate since John Edwards dropped out? Seems to me most Corporations and their CEO Rich executives have caused the major Union Bustin tactics i have seen since Bush as well as the No Bid Contracts that Bush handed out to Big Oil just like in Texas. Maybe you can’t see or remember all the good Clinton did til Nafta went sour and Bush borrowed from China for HIS WAR on his dad’s enemies. Just a keen observation from a deep insider.

— Gregali Supports Hillary
9:00 pm April 4th, 2008

It should also be noted that this article should have stated that the Canadians sent Obama’s campaign an apology for the mistake they made. The campaign aide was from Senator Clinton. It hurt Obama in Ohio.

Please get your article straight too!

— Dusty
9:03 pm April 4th, 2008

Seems Columbia is more Drug Free and doing something that the USA won’t do with its dealers. Unite Here where only their way or no way hmmm not very Democratic to me. Stay with Hillary and see.

— Columbia getting drug free
9:03 pm April 4th, 2008

What goes around comes around. Not only has the Canadian Government apologized to the Obama camp, I understand, from watching their news, that said government has launched an investigation into the whole affair, as well they should. When one of your consular officers not only blabs to the press, but seems to have put his slant on things, it certainly merits investigating. If an embassy looses the trust of the people it deals with, it might as well close up shop.

— Jean Chevreille
8:07 am April 5th, 2008

I wonder how much fundraising money for Mrs. Clinton is coming from Colombia…let’s check!! Where is a Penn when you need one?

— Colombia4Hillary
8:49 am April 5th, 2008

Hillary Clinton and her husband, Pres. Clinton and the first President George Bush are the very reasons why it will be impossible to recover from our economic disaster anything in the near future because there are hardly any worth while jobs left here and more are vanishing on a regular basis in the U.S. due to their brain child NAFTA trade agreements and this globalization tunnel vision for the good of Big Corporation.

How do you suppose that Hillary Clinton can fix her and husband’s disasterous NAFTA trade agreement that have destroyed employment prospects for extreme numbers of American workers?

For God’s sake, Hillary Clinton will not even be honest about her role in that deal. But, then, she is not a very honest person. Why people want to ignore the obvious, I will never understand. And how could blue collar workers be so plain stupid? Do they really foolishly think that Hillary and Bill Clinton are for the working class?

She and Bill Clinton is one of them, whoever they really are, that group, who are in bed with that group of 6% here in America that holds all America’s wealth. Those whose tunnel vision is globalization. They cannot be distinquished by Political Party affiliation.

The new jobs that must be created to replace the ones lost because of them are of such a grand scale that it is unlikely to happen and certainly not any time in our near future.

The only answer to this mess is to somehow break those NAFTA treaties. They where done under the noses of the people, something that affected Americans and our society in such disasterous ways, but something we had no say so in, or knowledge of.

Big Corporations were the one’s who wanted these NAFTA trade agreements. Now it is time for our leaders to come in somehow and turn their bad decision around. Funny that the only thing they are all able to see is how disasterous Bush’s Iraq war is on our economy. Totally overlooking NAFTA.

Is it because so many of our politicians, both Republican and Democrat were responsible for passing that disasterous bill for Big Corporate America? Were these politicians just incompetent or just plain traitors to this country. Whatever the reason, they all who voted for NAFTA should be run out of Washington.

Tax these corporation so high for doing business outside America that it is not worth it for them to be outside America hiring workers. I don’t know, but I do know something can be done to change this disasterous course Bill and Hillary Clinton and the first Pres. George Bush have placed this country on.

No Hillary or McCain, the only other one to take the gamble on is Obama. One is blind to not see this and how serious this is. Hillary doesn’t care and McCain has become a puppet.

Americans are about to experience for the first time in their life time the need to leave the U.S. for jobs opportunities. But, I am certain that the Clinton’s will be financially on top no matter what happens to this country. They are in bed with China who owns us. Did you realize that we are borrowing money from even Mexico? Now that is a joke on us, isn’t it?

And Hillary has the nerve to bring this up, the very person and her husband who is mainly responsible for thenm being in the position to loan us money. Almost all our Manufacturing jobs have been shipped to Mexico and with their unemployed coming into America for jobs here and sending much of their pay back to Mexico.

Thanks first Pres. Bush, Pres. Clinton and want to be Pres. Hillary Clinton for selling Americans out.

Hillary Clinton needs to stop with all the deceit and go crawl under some rock, its just so insulting to America, these disingenuous games that are harming and destroying this country. Americans need to stop being so gullible.

Everything is falling apart in our government because of corrupt hearted people presiding over it in every facet of it.

— D. Walker
3:56 pm April 6th, 2008

#4 Asks if what #3 say is true:

If this is true why does AFLCIO member and Union Man Alderman Gregali of the 14th Ward support her and is a delegate since John Edwards dropped out?

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May question to #4 Gregali Supports Hillary is,

Why would you or anyone place any value in one’s title and what that person is suppose to represent?

I will tell you why, it is one of two reasons, either Gregali is blind and a fool, or more than likely, he is a very intelligent man who is a sell out for some ungodly benefit for himself.

Hillary and Bill want in the White House as desperate as The Bush administaration wanted our present Pres. Bush in the White House and we can see why now after all the damage.

— D. Walker
5:20 pm April 7th, 2008

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