Clinton Strategist Penn Calls Meeting With Colombian Officials on Trade Deal 'Error in Judgment'

[babylonsister]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/04/clinton_aide_sorry_for_trade_m.php

Clinton aide sorry for trade meeting

Clinton Strategist Calls Meeting With Colombian Officials on Trade Deal 'Error in Judgment'

NEDRA PICKLER
AP News

Apr 04, 2008 12:07 EST

Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief strategist apologized Friday for meeting with Colombian officials pushing a free trade agreement that the presidential candidate opposes.

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the strategist, Mark Penn, met Monday with Colombia's ambassador to the United States. Clinton advisers said Penn's meetings were not connected to the campaign, but part of his job as chief executive of the lobbying and public relations firm Burson-Marsteller Worldwide.

But a Clinton adviser said the candidate was not happy to learn about the meeting, and Penn issued a statement expressing regrets.

"The meeting was an error in judgment that will not be repeated and I am sorry for it," Penn said in a written statement. "The senator's well-known opposition to this trade deal is clear and was not discussed."

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Penn's political consulting firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland, has been paid $10.8 million so far by Clinton's campaign.

[global1]

1. Working Both Sides Of The Fence.......

Randi should have called Penn a 'whore' as well.

[babylonsister]

2. LOL! nt

[DCKit]

3. The "error" was getting caught. n/t

[BryMan]

4. Once a scum sucking lobbyist...

Alaways a scumsucking...oh you get the point.

I guess he still has his day job while working the otherside eh? Now about being against NAFTA, when did Hillary side against it? My guess is never.

[babylonsister]

5. Welcome to DU, BryMan. As for NAFTA, it all depends on

when you ask her:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=113021

[BryMan]

6. Apparently

I got NAFTA'd from a landscaping job a few years ago. My position was "insourced" by a gent from The Honduras with nothing more than a SS card (had no idea what a green card was) willing to work for 6 bucks an hour (I was making a whopping 8.50) so her, and Mark Penn can kiss my ass for eternity.

I quit backing the Clintons years ago when I saw how NAFTA was getting myself and my friends to get "fired/laid off" for being so expensive to employ (cheaper labor easily available because of NAFTA killing off small independant farming South of the border).