Looks like Bill Clinton is a big supporter of free trade agreements and has lobbied for the same Columbian orginizations that Mark Penn worked with before he was “fired” from the Clinton campaign.
On Sunday evening, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s chief campaign strategist, Mark Penn, resigned from his post after it was revealed he was working (on the side) for the passage of a Colombia Free Trade Agreement that his candidate opposed.
But within the Clinton campaign, Penn is not the highest-ranking adviser with financial ties to groups and individuals supporting the passage of the measure.
Former President Bill Clinton has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars speaking on behalf of a Colombia-based group pushing the trade pact, and representatives of that organization tell The Huffington Post that the former president shared their sentiment.
In June 2005, Clinton was paid $800,000 by the Colombia-based Gold Service International to give four speeches throughout Latin America. The organization is, ostensibly, a development group tasked with bringing investment to the country and educating world leaders about the Colombia’s business opportunities
I personally don’t see what is wrong with these trade agreements and I doubt Bill or Hillary Clinton have a problem with them either, in fact their actions seem to indicate they support free trade agreements. Maybe they need to share their reasons for supporting these agreements with their supporters rather than trying to mislead many people in the rust-belt states into believing that President Hillary Clinton would bring their old jobs back through protectionist measures, as not only is it not going to happen it may not be desirable anyway.