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Mark Penn is the worldwide CEO of the public relations firm Burson-Marsteller and president of the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates.

Penn has helped to elect over 25 leaders in the United States, Asia, Latin America, and Europe in addition to serving as chief adviser to President Bill Clinton in the 1996 presidential election and to Hillary Rodham Clinton through her Senate and presidential races. Penn also serves as strategic consultant to top Fortune 500 companies, including Ford Motor Company, Merck, Verizon, BP, McDonald’s and Microsoft, and has been a key adviser to Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer since 1998. In 2000 and 2004, Penn was awarded the highest honor in his profession, the American Association of Political Consultants’ “Pollster of the Year” Award.

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Hillary Clinton is relying on seasoned veterans of her husband’s White House campaigns, including Mandy Grunwald, Mark Penn, Harold Ickes, and Ann Lewis. But the real mastermind in Camp Clinton is an unpaid adviser, who also happens to be her husband.

Who Will be the Next Karl Rove?
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:39 PM By: John Mercurio
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/axelrod_rove/2007/09/11/31818.html

Former Hillary Clinton campaign strategist Mark Penn blames Clinton’s unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on disagreements within her camp on how to go after Barack Obama, and on squandering money too early in the primaries.

“The reason I would have gone after him early was precisely because I didn’t underestimate the power of a fresh, new candidate who also has appeal to the African-American vote and the latte voters,” Penn tells GQ magazine in an article published today.

“To put [those constituencies] together into a very strong coalition – supported by money and the press – absolutely I saw all that,” he boasts.

“How do you stop something like that? You don’t stop something like that by being ‘warmer’ or by giving an interview on a personality show,” he says.

“I wanted to question the basic underpinning of his campaign: that he didn’t have the usual experience of somebody running for president, and that the positions he took on Iraq – that were revered by the press – didn’t really hold up when you look through his record in the Senate.”

Mark Penn: Hillary Should’ve Hit Obama Harder
Thursday, June 12, 2008 9:11 PM By: Rick Pedraza
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/penn_clinton_obama/2008/06/12/104110.html

In the aftermath of Hillary Rodham Clinton's third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, the finger of blame is being pointed at her chief strategist, Mark Penn.

According to Time magazine, critics say Penn is the embodiment of all that is wrong with Clinton's campaign: "Too cautious, too arrogant, too conventional and too clueless as to how much the political landscape has shifted since the last Clinton reign."

Hillary's Camp Blames Strategist Penn
Sunday, January 6, 2008 12:46 PM
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/hillary_penn_strategist/2008/01/06/62121.html

Hillary Clinton has officially written off the $13.2 million she loaned to her presidential campaign, but she still owes more than $6 million to vendors.

But she continues efforts to raise money to pay the $6.4 million she owed to vendors as of Nov. 30, down from $7.5 million at the end of October. Former chief strategist Mark Penn is owed $5.4 million.

Hillary Clinton Writes Off $13.2 Million Debt
Monday, December 22, 2008 2:22 PM By: Jim Meyers
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/hillary_clinton_writeoff/2008/12/22/164415.html

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