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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...
...tell," says one top adviser to the Clinton campaign. "Finding a new role for him and a lesser role will take time." But time is what Clinton is lacking now, and the early indications are that Penn remains entrenched. The campaign announced Sunday that his duties as chief strategist will now be carried out by communications director Howard Wolfson and pollster Geoff Garin, who joined the campaign a few weeks ago. But the morning after his demotion, Penn participated in a morning conference call of the campaign's inner circle, and he was involved in debate preparation that afternoon...
...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...
...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...