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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn the 2008 primary, what was the name of that slob in a sweater
who used show up as a campaign manager/spokesperson for Hillary? He was a former? Republican she had hired. Large rather unke?pt guy. I think his first name was Peter but am not certain. I just can't retrieve it from the memory bank. Anyone remember.
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In the 2008 primary, what was the name of that slob in a sweater (Original Post)
Skidmore
Mar 2015
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1. Harold Wolfson.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)4. He is just as smarmy.
It was Mark Penn.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)2. Mark Penn? nt
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)3. That's it! Well I got the "p" right.
Thanks. Lordy, I am getting old.
He was a loathesome creature and her selection of him as well as other issues really left me cold.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)5. I'm pretty sure you mean Mark Penn
and I was amazed that the "media savvy" Clintons would hire such a loser as a spokes dude. I always thought if you looked closely enough you would see food stains on that sweater.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)6. It was him.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)7. Found this Mother Jones article just now.
djean111
(14,255 posts)8. This -
That tight bond had been forged years earlier. After President Clinton was clobbered in the 1994 midterm elections and the Democrats lost control of the House, he recruited Penn, a consultant and pollster, to help him triangulate against his own party and move toward the center. Penn, a proponent of the notion that Dems should not embrace populism,
And - see how united the Party is now? Not. Not much my party, either.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)9. Exactly. The tringulation went deep too.
Some really ugly things were said.