Oh My. Mark Penn's Company Worked with Bush/Cheney! (along with Former Clinton appointee Quinn)

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Wed Apr-09-08 12:24 AM
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Oh My. Mark Penn's Company Worked with Bush/Cheney! (along with Former Clinton appointee Quinn)

Edited on Wed Apr-09-08 12:25 AM by berni_mccoy

Not only was Penn's Firm working for Colombia's Trade Deal,
not only was one of it's chief's Charlie Black, McCain's campaign advisor,
not only were they Blackwater's primary PR Firm (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Burson-Marsteller#Blackwater_USA),
but they formed 360 Advantage, an extreme RW media organization with many of the people from the Bush/Cheney 2000/2004 campaigns (I wonder if Rove is involved).

From Source Watch: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Burson-Marsteller#Burson_and_Bush_men

In April 2005, Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter reported that Burson-Marsteller had joined with Quinn Gillespie & Associates to launch 360 Advantage, a public affairs shop filled with "key players in George W. Bush's successful presidential campaigns."
360 Advantage is headed by Russ Schriefer, who did advertising with the Bush/Cheney 2000 and 2004 campaigns and produced the 2004 Republican National Convention, and by Stuart Stevens, a "Bush adman and veteran political strategist." Schriefer and Stevens were also partners in the Stevens & Schriefer Group in Washington, DC, and have worked on presidential campaigns in the Czech Republic, Nigeria, the Philippines and Congo (Jack O'Dwyer's Newletter, Vol. 38, No. 17, April 27, 2005).

Digging deeper here: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=360_Advantage#Staff

360Advantage's staff includes "key players in George W. Bush's successful presidential campaigns." The firm is headed by Russ Schriefer, who did advertising with the Bush/Cheney 2000 and 2004 campaigns and produced the 2004 Republican National Convention, and by Stuart Stevens, a "Bush adman and veteran political strategist."
Schriefer and Stevens worked together at Maverick Media, were partners in the Stevens & Schriefer Group in Washington, DC, and also both worked on presidential campaigns in the Czech Republic, Nigeria, the Philippines and Congo (Jack O'Dwyer's Newletter, Vol. 38, No. 17, April 27, 2005).
Other staff include:
Ken Rietz
Richard Mintz
Charlie Black
Scott Pastrick
Jack Quinn
Edward W. Gillespie
Craig Veith
Jason Meath
Ashley O'Connor
Stephanie Kincaid
Shellie Purvis

Note: Charlie Black is McCain's chief campaign strategist and advisor. But here's one that's even better: Jack Quinn: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_Quinn

Jack Quinn is co-chairman of Quinn Gillespie & Associates, "a strategic consulting company he formed in January 2000 with Ed Gillespie."
"Before co-founding Quinn Gillespie & Associates, Mr. Quinn was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter for twenty years. In addition, Mr. Quinn served as Counsel to the President of the United States from November 1995 to February 1997. At the time of his appointment by President William Jefferson Clinton, he was Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.'s Chief-of-Staff and Counselor, a position he undertook in June 1993. Between January 1993 and May of that year, Mr. Quinn was the Vice President's Counsel and deputy Chief-of-Staff. Mr. Quinn was also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where he taught a seminar in constitutional law for three years.

My, my Hillary, you really know how to pick em. And you are still paying this guy over $100,000 PER DAY!