Did anyone hear Thom Hartmann's report on United Technologies,

[JDPriestly]

the defense company that tried to buy Diebold? Hartmann stated that the company's lobbyist is run by one of John McCain's strongest supporters and that the lobbyist's boss is Mark Penn of Burston Marsteller, Clinton's guru. I don't see any of the corroborating information on that on Hartmann's website. Does anyone know where this story originated or what the source of the facts is?

[LSparkle]

1. What I found startling is that Charlie Black's company was just bought by

Burston Marsteller ... meaning that the company employing Hillary's chief strategist
just bought the company owned by ... Bomb-Bomb McLame's chief strategist ... meaning
that top aides to the two candidates are in bed together (in business, if not in other
areas).

[seemslikeadream]

2. ....

[Adsos Letter]

3. ...yup...

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. I Have It!!

A caller to Randi in her 3rd hour also read from this.

Washington Post

A Few Degrees of Separation From Hillary Clinton's Top Adviser

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Tuesday, February 20, 2007; Page A11

Mark J. Penn is a man who wears many hats: high-paid political and corporate pollster, chief executive of an international communications and lobbying company, and chief strategist to New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Enough connections for you?

Well, there are more. Penn's firm, Burson-Marsteller Worldwide -- with 2,000 employees and $300 million a year in revenue -- owns BKSH & Associates, the major lobbying firm chaired by Charles R. Black Jr. That's right, Black, counselor to Republican presidents, reports to Clinton's top strategist.

The connections get even more entangled. Burson-Marsteller is a subsidiary of WPP Group, a London-based advertising and PR giant that owns many of the biggest names on K Street. These include Quinn Gillespie & Associates, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, Timmons & Co., Ogilvy Government Relations Worldwide (formerly the Federalist Group), Public Strategies Inc., Dewey Square Group and Hill & Knowlton.

More at link.

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