HRC Colombia ties don't stop with Penn

[catgirl]

Mark Penn isn’t the only Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter on the wrong side of the Colombia trade agreement.

The Democratic-leaning advocacy firm the Glover Park Group, former home to Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson, signed a $40,000 per month contract with the government of Colombia in April of 2007 to promote the very agreement that Clinton now rails against on the presidential campaign trail.

That means Glover Park Group was arguing the same position on the free trade agreement as has Penn, the contentious Clinton strategist and Burson-Marsteller chief executive who lost his campaign job over the weekend after The Wall Street Journal revealed that he’d met with Colombian officials to plot strategy on the pact.

Several other Glover Park employees have deep connections with the Clintons, including founding partner Joe Lockhart, who served as the White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton, and Joel Johnson, who was a senior communications adviser in the Clinton White House.

Read on:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9433.html

[anonymous171]

1. W...T...F

:wow: Speechless...

[catgirl]

3. One word- Ohio.

[FrenchieCat]

2. Time to write to the Media......

[whistle]

4. Remeber, a dead fish rots from the head first

[myrna minx]

5. I have to read this article again.

Is this hubris or complete incompetence? :wow:

[Life Long Dem]

6. This is getting interesting. n/t

[berni_mccoy]

7. Clinton is soooooooo DONE!

[biggerfishsmallpond]

8. somebody explain to me the difference

between these "democrats" and republicans.
I can't see the difference, can you see the difference?

I sincerely hope this campaign forces the grassroots to look the party in the eye and remind it that there are values beyond greed.
Corporatists must go.

[Zachstar]

14. And the people will not see the difference with Clinton so McCain will easily win.

Clinton is almost an assured loss in the GE in my view.

[bobthedrummer]

9. Yep, here's a trio of links about the history of those "dealings"-takes awhile to read them

goes back to Arkansas Development and Finance Authority scandals and criminal networks of Mena.

"Cooking the Insurance Books: A Decade of Lax Regulation Lays Groundwork for Scandal" by Lucy Komisar (11-17-2004 Corp Watch)
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11657

"Gray Money" by the staff of the Ozark Gazette (archived all over the internet-this one from whatreallyhappened.com)
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/gray_money.html

"The Activities at Mena" (whatreallyhappened.com)
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.html

[bobthedrummer]

10. k

[bobthedrummer]

11. Hey catgirl-this isn't a hijack--it is one last kick from me for tonight

"Know Your DLC: Current DLC Leadership Team and other Democratic Leadership Council links"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5396391

[catgirl]

16. Thanks for all the links bobthedrummer!

[caligirl]

12. So Wolfson will be giving up his title too? will KO cover this?

[SunsetDreams]

13. geezzz

This thing looks like it's going to have legs.

[Spazito]

15. Wow!

Both of Hillary's key campaign people working FOR a Colombia trade agreement while she has publicly stated she is against it. Very, very interesting, imo.

[uponit7771]

17. Someone will write a REALLY good book about Clintons campaign and I might read it....

[OhioChick]

18. K&R

:kick:

[bobthedrummer]

19. An "I remember Jorge Cabrera" kick