Word: garin
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...that Hillary Clinton brought in to replace controversial strategist Mark Penn got his start in politics 32 years ago in Pennsylvania, the very state that is so crucial to her presidential hopes now. Back then, however, Geoff Garin was working for a Republican...
...successful 1976 Senate campaign of Pennsylvania Congressman John Heinz that gave Garin enough of a bug for politics that he decided to defer going to law school. It was also where he met pollster Peter Hart, who hired him two years later and made him president of Hart Research Associates in 1984. And law school? "I think I'm on my 35th deferral," Garin says with a laugh...
...Garin was not a surprising choice to step into the gap left by Penn, who was pressured to step aside after the Wall Street Journal revealed last week that he had advised the Colombian government on its efforts to win passage of a bilateral trade treaty with the United States - a deal that Hillary Clinton opposes. Not only did Penn's work put him at odds with the stated position of his candidate, but it outraged Clinton's allies in organized labor, whose efforts she is counting on to help her win the make-or-break Pennsylvania primary on April...
...campaign statement simply said, ""After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as Chief Strategist of the Clinton Campaign." It said that long-time Democratic pollster Geoff Garin and Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson would share Penn's role...
...doubt the boss will be in a mood to attend." GENERAL GUILLERMO GARIN, spokesman for General Augusto Pinochet, on the former Chilean dictator's cancellation of a luncheon celebrating his 90th birthday, after he was indicted on human-rights charges and placed under house arrest