NY Post: Hillary’s Labor Pains

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/en/story-details/hilarys_labor_pains/

By Geoff Earle

NY POST - Powerful union bosses, including a key backer of Hillary Rodham Clinton, urged her to sack chief strategist Mark Penn just days before she axed him, it was revealed yesterday.

Clinton backer Gerald McEntee, who heads the powerful AFSCME union of government workers, says he told her that Penn needed to go.

"I talked to her on Saturday and asked her to do something about this Mark Penn fellow," he said.

Penn had come under withering union criticism after it was revealed last week that he met with representatives of the government of Colombia to discuss a trade deal the country is promoting, even though Clinton opposes it.

Penn, who throughout the campaign has retained his role as president of Burson-Marsteller, a global p.r. firm, apologized for the meeting, and the Colombians nixed his firm's $300,000 contract.

"He can't wear two hats or three hats. He doesn't even seem to be able to wear one hat," McEntee said.

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