This is why everyone loves dealing with the Clinton press office.
I emailed Clinton spokesman Matt McKenna to ask if controversial pollster Mark Penn is again advising the Clintons, as a Democratic strategist told BuzzFeed Penn had said. The response:
(McKenna's email address and the name of a reporter for a competing outlet, who had presumably been asking similar questions and was copied on the chain, have been redacted. The answer to the question is just absent.)
Penn was a key architect of Bill Clinton's 1996 victory and of Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate win. He was ousted from her turbulent 2008 presidential campaign, and has many enemies among her former aides.
Penn, seen here in New Hampshire in 2008, didn't respond to an inquiry about whether he is "back" in Hillaryland.
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