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Penn Not The Only Clinton Staffer With Colombia Ties
Howard Wolfson, Clinton Campaign Spokesperson, owns an equity interest in Glover Park Group, which signed a $40,000 per month contract with Colombia to promote the trade agreement Clinton has been campaigning against.
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Comments (7)
Oh, my.
April 8, 2008 12:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wolfson resigned from all day-to-day operations of his FORMER employer, unlike Mark Penn. Your insinuation is a crock..... and an irresponsible misread of the situation.
April 8, 2008 2:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
blusage,
I think that your point about Wolfson resigning from the day-to-day operations of the company during the campaign removes this type of conflict. He is obviously much more responsible than Penn.
I also don't want the word "Colombia" to become a bad word on this site either. The trade agreement with Colombia is debatable in it's value to the American people; but Colombia is a great partner in South America and also a great place despite it's problems.
April 8, 2008 9:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Talk about double dealing! I think Hillary supports the Columbia trade deal too. She's just taking a different position publicly while the election is in progress. Too many people from her camp are trumpeting this deal for it to be a coincidence.
Alas I must restate my classic Clinton motto:
Some monsters lie.
And some lies are monsters.
April 8, 2008 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Also many of Hillary's donors (per the article) have ties to Columbia (or interests in the trade deal). And we've seen what Hillary's donors try to do when the Democrats don't do what they want.
April 8, 2008 12:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
And now there's this shattering tidbit of information.
April 8, 2008 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sure, the Clintons have a lot of ties to Columbia. But those ties are only on the supply side.
On the other hand, Obama's ties to Columbia are on the demand side (hint: \snort).
April 8, 2008 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
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