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Aide's New Role Looks to Some Like the Old One
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| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 08, 2008 09:56am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 8, 2008 03:55:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, April 8, 2008; Page A04
The question for some staff members of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign yesterday was why it had taken her so long to remove Mark J. Penn as its chief strategist.
But other aides wondered how the campaign will function without Penn. And despite the announcement Sunday that he is giving up his strategist role, it remain to be seen how removed he will be. Penn was on a top-level conference call yesterday, one insider said; he is helping Clinton (N.Y.) prepare for the next Democratic debate, on April 16; and his firm, Penn Schoen & Berland Associates, will continue to conduct some polling for the campaign.
Penn had been the target of criticism for many months and had warred with others in the campaign's inner circle. His departure was rumored in January after Clinton lost the Iowa caucuses, as part of a general housecleaning that appeared imminent until she unexpectedly won the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 8. Even after Clinton changed campaign managers in February, ousting longtime confidante Patti Solis Doyle and installing her former White House chief of staff, Maggie Williams, some advisers thought Penn should be moved out of his chief strategist role. But Clinton did not take any such action. |
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