http://clipmarks.com/clipper/masbury/date/2008/4/6/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/masbury/date/2008/4/6/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6F10E9A9-4824-41E4-BB2D-27EF6CCA2F2B/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/masbury/">masbury</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Mark Penn, CEO of Burston-Marsteller, also advised Blackwater and represented Texas utilities attempts to build numerous coal-fired power plants over objections from environmental groups last year. Her chief campaign strategist, he was the CEO of an elite Washington lobbying firm, even while she criticized Obama in New Hampshire because his state campaign mgr there had lobbied at the state level. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/us/politics/06cnd-penn.html?em&ex=1207627200&en=d1f4f31af9aedf3a&ei=5087%0A" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/us/politics/06cnd-penn.html?em&ex=1207627200&en=d1f4f31af9aedf3a&ei=5087%0A">www.nytimes.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/masbury/512/FAC4C7AF-BD7A-471A-9BCD-016EE79FA901.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Mark Penn, the architect of much of Senator <A title="More articles about Hillary Rodham Clinton." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Hillary Rodham Clinton</A>’s presidential campaign, has been replaced as the campaign’s chief strategist in the wake of revelations that he lobbied on behalf of a trade treaty with Colombia that Mrs. Clinton opposes.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"> Mr. Penn, who has been associated with Mrs. Clinton and former President <A title="More articles about Bill Clinton." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/bill_clinton/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Bill Clinton</A> for a dozen years, has come under withering criticism for continuing to consult with clients as chief executive of Burson-Marsteller, the international lobbying and public relations firm.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Mr. Penn, long a divisive figure within the Clinton camp, lost his pre-eminent position after revelations that he met with Colombia’s ambassador to the United States last Monday in his role as head of Burson-Marsteller. The Colombian government hired the lobbying firm last year under a $300,000 one-year contract to help secure passage of a bilateral trade treaty with the United States.</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/clinton/" rel="tag">clinton</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/penn/" rel="tag">penn</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/news/" rel="tag">news</a></div>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/us/politics/06cnd-penn.html?em&ex=1207627200&en=d1f4f31af9aedf3a&ei=5087%0AMon, 07 Apr 2008 03:51:18 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C0DF2237-4263-43D8-AA29-696BFBED0F43/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/masbury/">masbury</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Multi-millionaire in top 1/10 of 1% of American incomes <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-usclin0406,0,7855250.story" title="http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-usclin0406,0,7855250.story">www.newsday.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>On the 40th anniversary of <A title="Martin Luther King Jr." href="http://www.newsday.com/topic/arts-culture/martin-luther-king-jr.-PEHST001228.topic">Martin Luther King Jr.</A>'s assassination, <A title="Hillary Clinton" href="http://www.newsday.com/topic/politics/government/hillary-clinton-PEPLT007433.topic">Hillary Rodham Clinton</A> flew to Memphis, Tenn., where she called for the appointment of a cabinet-level "poverty czar" to cope with the economic downturn.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> Shortly thereafter -- at the bury-the-news hour of 4:05 p.m. on a Friday -- staffers released Bill and Hillary Clinton's 2000-2006 tax returns showing that the couple earned a not very working-class $109 million.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> Clinton, a member of the gilded class clinging to a Rust Belt base, had long delayed disclosing details of her fortune, for fear of driving blue-collar and low-income voters to <A title="Barack Obama" href="http://www.newsday.com/topic/politics/barack-obama-PEPLT007408.topic">Barack Obama</A>. The Illinois senator and his wife have earned about 4 percent of the Clintons' income during the past seven years.</DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/clinton/" rel="tag">clinton</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/wealth/" rel="tag">wealth</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/politics/" rel="tag">politics</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/news/" rel="tag">news</a></div>http://www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/ny-usclin0406,0,7855250.storySun, 06 Apr 2008 22:16:52 GMT