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>Stagwell, formerly The Stagwell Group, is a global marketing and communications group. Founded in 2015 by Mark Penn. >Penn was a chief strategist and pollster
by polyomino 5y ago
>Stagwell, formerly The Stagwell Group, is a global marketing and communications group. Founded in 2015 by Mark Penn.
>Penn was a chief strategist and pollster in the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign
- boomboomsubban 5y agoAnd further in Mark Penn's Wikipedia article >Penn met with Trump in February and November 2019 to give him advice on his 2020 re-election strategy. The company claims to be right wing, why would you deny it?
- polyomino 5y agoI'm not denying that they claim to be republican, but their actions do serve both parties. As such, I don't think their claim to be republican is particularly meaningful.
- throwawaygh 5y agoHe worked for D's in 2008 and the firm was founded in 2015 with primarily R political cleintelle. What's contradictory about a strategist who worked for Ds in 2008 and was working for Rs by 2016? Hell, there's a whole term describing the large set of people who made that shift in that exact time period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama%E2%80%93Trump_voters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama%E2%80%93Trump_voters
- pessimizer 5y agoClinton-people and Obama-people did not and do not like each other. This might be a better link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Unity_My_Ass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_Unity_My_Ass
- dailyrorschach 5y agoAlso worth context here that Stagwell is set up like another major holding company. They own Targeted Victory (R) and SKDKnickerbocker (D) as their two pillars in DC/public affairs/campaign comms. They also own other non-political communications companies.
- giraffe_lady 5y agohahaha amazing. This isn't contradictory at all tho. "I'm not saying she's a republican, I'm just saying the republicans think she's a republican."