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Hmm. Things are starting to look worse for Hillary on trade.
I
have noted the good things Clinton has said on trade, and there have
been some good things said. But they were words. I do trust
that she would vote against the Colombia, Panama and South Korea FTAs,
because she has said it and is basically boxed in. But her trade
credentials are more and more shaky because:
1. She claimed to always oppose NAFTA, which is untrue.
2.
Mark Penn, her campaign chief, worked for the Colombia government
through his consulting firm to pass the Colombia FTA. Penn has,
as you know, stepped down as campaign manager, but is still a pollster
for her campaign.
3. Now we find the firm from
which Howard Wolfson, the new campaign co-manager, came has a contract
with the Colombia government too. From the Politico:
The Democratic-leaning advocacy firm the Glover Park Group, former
home to Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson, signed a $40,000 per
month contract with the government of Colombia in April of 2007 to
promote the very agreement that Clinton now rails against on the
presidential campaign trail.
That means Glover Park Group was arguing the same position on the free trade agreement as has Penn... .
Several other Glover Park employees have deep connections with the
Clintons, including founding partner Joe Lockhart, who served as the
White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton, and Joel
Johnson, who was a senior communications adviser in the Clinton White
House.
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