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Report: Former Clinton Pollster Won Stimulus Contract
December 9, 2009, 10:34AM
Chief Executive of Burson-Marsteller Mark Penn
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The Hill is reporting that nearly $6 million in stimulus funds went to firms run by Mark Penn, a former pollster for Hillary Clinton. According to The Hill, the money went to Burson-Marsteller, the global public relations and communications firm headed by Penn, for work on a campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television.
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ericf
December 9, 2009 3:20 PM
How do Penn and Burson-Marsteller have time for this? Are dictators cutting lobbying spending because of the recession?
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