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BREAKING - Mark Penn Resigning
ABC News is reporting Penn's resignation from the Clinton campaign:
HILLARY CLINTON'S CHIEF STRATEGIST, MARK PENN, IS STEPPING DOWN AMID
CONTROVERSY OVER HIS ADVOCACY WORK ON BEHALF OF A TRADE DEAL CLINTON
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Comments (13)
D'oh! You beat me to the scoop! That's what I get for watching CNN instead of ABC? Oh well...Excellent work Gary Rees!
April 6, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Call it a tie. Good work, Astral66! Sheesh, we need to get a life, eh? ;-)
April 6, 2008 7:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Info from a BREAKING NEWS alert while viewing ABC News programming online at ~6:30pm ET. Haven't seen confirmation, except for another reader blog post here at TPM. Here's a screen shot of the announcement, top of the viewer window: http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pennresigninggh8.jpg.
April 6, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not that it matters at this point, but here's a good link to that image:
http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pennresigninggh8.jpg
April 6, 2008 7:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, no! What if this is just what the Clinton Camp needs to get their inevitable juggernaut back on track.
How will I know what states are important if Mark Penn is not there to keep me current?
April 6, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
More from HuffPo:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/06/mark-penn-resigns-from-cl_n_95323.html
April 6, 2008 6:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
/cheer
April 6, 2008 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Harumph... HuffPo has Penn staying on, but sticking to polling. Well, that's still good for Obama, but it would have been much more fitting if he'd been booted altogether.
Or maybe he's trimming down his duties voluntarily until HRC pays her overdue invoices to Penn's firm... ;-)
April 6, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
This misses, and mischaracterizes, the entire reason for my resignation. It was not due to impropriety or incompetence.
Rather, it was a decisive and insightful strategic maneuver: Campaign directors who do not resign in the middle of a race represent an overwhelming portion of campaign directors in general. Therefore, that is a macrotrendic category, and thus doomed to failure.
Very few campaign directors resign in the middle of a race. This therefore represents a microtrendic category, and thus is one more nail in the coffin of the Obama campaign, moving Senator Clinton one step closer to her unavoidable and overwhelming victory.
This raises serious questions about Senator Obama.
April 6, 2008 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have to admit, MarkPenn, that it's an amazing damage control strategy! Asking to give up your role as strategist and pollster, while at the same time continuing to offer your services as strategist and pollster. Brilliant!
April 6, 2008 7:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton Chief Strategist Stepping Down -
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/clinton-chief-s.html
April 6, 2008 7:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maggie Williams has released the following statement from the Clinton camp:
After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as Chief Strategist of the Clinton Campaign; Mark, and Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates, Inc. will continue to provide polling and advice to the campaign.
Geoff Garin and Howard Wolfson will coordinate the campaign's strategic message team going forward.
April 6, 2008 7:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
"The Penn situation -- and the lack of action by you -- raises serious questions about the veracity of your claims of what you would do should you become President," the (seven labor unions that are part of the "Change to Win" coalition) said in a statement released Saturday."
Penn felt the wrath of the unions. They responded so strongly that Hillary Clinton was not only forced to take notice, she was forced to get "angry" about it.
(And I've noticed that this thread has already fallen into the TPM abyss... Hopefully it'll get some recommendations and resurface soon.)
April 6, 2008 7:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
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