Hillary Clinton Still Owes Mark Penn 329K

Patrick Umsted — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:20:06 +0000

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.

I guess the Get Motivated series….

Patrick Umsted — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:04:55 +0000

…doesn’t pay like it used to. Good ole GWB will be “debating” Bill Clinton at Radio City Music Hall in February. I use quotation mark due to the lack of actual back and forth debating that, I am sure, will not take place on the stage. I’m sure Bill Clinton will get a huge cheer every time he talks and GWB will get booed. New York ain’t exactly Decider country.

Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will go head to head in a debate at Radio City Music Hall next February, as part of a series pairing liberal and conservative thinkers called “Minds That Move The World.”

The debate “will be formatted to allow for President Clinton and President Bush to each present their thoughts on a wide range of important current events and national issues through a moderated question and answer period during which the moderator can elicit information and insights into particularly pertinent topics of the day,” according to a press release.

[UPDATE: 42 and 43 have cancelled their appearance due to promotional issues]

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Hillary Clinton Still Owes Mark Penn 329K

I guess the Get Motivated series….