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Clinton chief strategist resigns from US campaign
Apr 7, 2008, 13:43 GMT
Washington - The chief champaign strategist of Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has resigned, according to US media reports on Monday.
There was no information from the Clinton camp as to the reason behind the late Sunday withdrawal of Mark Penn from the Clinton campaign, which is running second in the country's Democratic party primaries to nominate a candidate for president.
United States media has speculated that the resignation was due to Penn's activities as a lobbyist in favour of a trade treaty with South American country Colombia.
Penn in his capacity as a paid lobbyist was reported to have met with the Colombian ambassador to the United States last week. Clinton, wife of former US president Bill Clinton, opposes a treaty with Colombia due to its allegedly deleterious effect on US labour.
Clinton's former campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle as well as Doyle's deputy Mike Henry resigned just in February in connection to Clinton's unexpectedly weak performance in the February 5 'Super Tuesday' primary elections in various US states.
Clinton, a US senator for the state of New York, is currently running second behind Barack Obama.
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...why is this Penn guy suddenly pimping a Free Trade deal to the Columbians?????
Who IS he and what does a lobbyist have to offer the Columbians that the Bush administration, who wants this too, does not?
What is this guys angle????
Influence peddling.
Bush has wanted this all along, but Congress has stymied it, and now, a Libnazi operative is out pimping free trade to a foreign nation????
There HAS to be a briefcase full of money somewhere in this picture! It just stinks of an influence for pay deal!
The last time this happened with the Clintons, it was Sandy Berger doing the pimping to oil interests like AMOCO in former Russian satellite nations.
Dja Vu
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SP4: What's wrong withApr 7th, 2008 - 13:57:24
..just SAYING you're for free trade???? We already know she is, and no one except the worst of the sheeplike liberals believe that old chestnut. Heck, they passed NAFTA in full view of the trade unions!
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