Heading up Hillary Clinton’s ill-fated and horribly mismanaged presidential campaign may have been a major embarrassment, but for Mark Penn being a Democratic insider has its rewards:
Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.
Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.
That’s only two million in taxpayer dollars per job! Penn’s firm, Burston-Marsteller is also a successful corporate behemoth, not exactly the first place the government should look to when giving out handouts.
