Strategist? I don’t think so.
Put aside any debate over whether Mark Penn may have had more than one agenda at this meeting, this decision was incredibly stupid. Given all the controversy Hillary Clinton has had to deal with over NAFTA, why in the world would Penn, her chief strategist, even consider taking this kind of risk? I would hate to think I had paid someone more than $10 million to make decisions like this.
From the Wall Street Journal…
Hillary Clinton’s chief campaign strategist met with Colombia’s ambassador to the U.S. on Monday to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, a pact the presidential candidate opposes.
Attendance by the adviser, Mark Penn, was confirmed by two Colombian officials. He wasn’t there in his campaign role, but in his separate job as chief executive of Burson-Marsteller Worldwide, an international communications and lobbying firm. The firm has a contract with the South American nation to promote congressional approval of the trade deal, among other things, according to filings with the Justice Department.
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