Mark Penn was the Chief Strategist for the Hillary Clinton 2008 Presidential Campaign. He took a former First Lady and sitting Senator that was well liked within the Democratic party that had a fifteen point lead over all other contenders in June 2007 and the endorsement of her husband and Democrat-in-Chief, Bill Clinton, and managed to lose to a first term Senator with no policy accomplishments.
If anything, Mark Penn should be paying Hillary Clinton $329,000.
From Politico:
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign ended in the summer of 2008, but in the first three months of the year, her still operational campaign committee raised $63,000 – primarily by renting its email list to allies – and paid off $75,000 in debt to its pollster Mark Penn.
According to a report filed last week with the Federal Election Commission, Clinton’s campaign committee ended the first quarter with $329,000 in debt – all to Penn’s firm, to which the Clinton campaign once owed nearly $5.3 million.
$5.3 million for the political equivalent of missing a 3 foot putt to win the Masters? Nice work if you can get it.