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Jen the Michigander


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The right-wing media is already spinning this to look like Hillary had something to do with it. They neglect to mention that Penn was out the door long before her campaign ended. If anything, I suspect Obama is paying him back for f-ing up the job.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/71353-mark-penn-got-6-million-from-stimulus

A contract worth nearly $6 million in stimulus funds was awarded by the Obama adminstration to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that a contract worth $5.97 million, part of the $787 billion stimulus Congress passed this year, helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was awarded through a subcontract to Penn's polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland, according to federal records.

Penn received scrutiny during and after the 2008 presidential campaign for the role he played in Clinton’s unsuccessful White House bid. Some Clinton supporters questioned whether his service was worth the millions in fees he billed to the campaign.

Penn’s firm billed the campaign $5 million for polling and at least $8 million for sending out direct-mail pieces, according to Time magazine. Clinton’s campaign finally paid off the debt in July.

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Meanwhile, our local people haven't gotten the stimulus they were promised, if they prepared large civic projects, which they have.

Ruining Hillary's campaign - which didn't stop her from getting the majority of the votes! - must be worth a lot to o-frickin'liar.  CHEATING IS THE ONLY WAY OBAMA CAN WIN.

Pathetic.

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This should surprise no one. Oasshat will stoop to any level - we all knew and know that.

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The right-wing media is already spinning this to look like Hillary had something to do with it. They neglect to mention that Penn was out the door long before her campaign ended. If anything, I suspect Obama is paying him back for f-ing up the job.

That was my first thought, as well, Jen.  Penn did Hillary no good.  Why would she reward him?   The conservative media was OK for a while.  Now they're letting their true colors show, again, and they're just as bad as CNN and MSNBC.


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The Conservative Media is doing the same thing to Hillary that the liberal media is doing to Sarah bashing her so that they get higher ratings both Clinton and Palin get more hits then any other two names in Politics and the media knows it. This has to stop on both sides. 



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