Word: strategist
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When a not-yet-world-famous political consultant named Karl Rove signed up back in 1999 to become the chief strategist for Texas Governor George W. Bush's presidential campaign, his client had a non-negotiable demand: Rove had to get rid of the lucrative direct-mail business he had run for 18 years. Bush, Rove once told me, had put it in the bluntest terms. "If I do this," Rove recalled Bush telling him, "I want you free and clear...
...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...
...client - former Virginia Governor Mark Warner - decided not to run. Garin began working quietly for the Clinton campaign about three weeks ago, and has chosen not to take an official title, which is a sharp contrast from Penn, who insisted on being referred to as the campaign's "chief strategist...
...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...
...original version of this article stated that Mark Penn left the Clinton campaign Sunday. Although Penn did relinquish his formal role as chief strategist, he is continuing to play a role doing polling for and providing advice to the campaign, among other responsibilities...