Mark Penn is not alone. Former President Clinton also supports the Columbian free trade agreement that his wife so staunchly opposes.
The Clinton camp has attempted to equate these severe conflicts of interest to that of Austin Goolsbee and the Obama camp re: NAFTA.
As ABC News' Rick Klein points out, "the fact is there's no real comparison."
The Huffington Post's Sam Stein has more:
In June 2005, Clinton was paid $800,000 by the Colombia-based Gold Service International to give four speeches throughout Latin America. The organization is, ostensibly, a development group tasked with bringing investment to the country and educating world leaders about the Colombia's business opportunities.
The group's chief operating officer, Andres Franco, said in an interview that the group supports the congressional ratification of the free trade agreement and that, when Clinton was on his speaking tour, he expressed similar opinions.
"He was supportive of the trade agreement at the time that he came, but that was several years ago. In the present context, I don't know what his position would be. It is not only about union trade rights. It is about what benefit or damage it can do to the US economy," said Franco. "Events with the Clinton campaign [concerning Mark Penn] are not good at all for the trade agreement... Right now it became a campaign issues and that is sad, because it needs to go through."
Keep in mind, Clinton has everything staked on a marginally significant victory (at least 10+ pts) in the labor heavy Keystone State.
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The Clintons have been carrying a 20 point lead in Pennsylvania for months. Anything less than this margin of victory becomes a win for Obama.
^^^thats ridiculous...anything under 10 maybe...
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