A while back, I asked the question: Why are Democrats working for Wal-Mart? Today, there’s another aspect of this having to do with Mark Penn, the key strategist and pollster for Sen. Hillary Clinton. Steve Greenhouse has a piece today that further explores an article that appeared in The Nation. Here’s a snippet:

The presidents of two large labor unions have written to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to complain that Mark Penn, her pollster and chief strategist, is chief executive of a public relations firm that is helping a company fight a unionization drive.

In the letter sent Friday, which a labor official released yesterday, James P. Hoffa, president of the Teamsters, and Bruce Raynor, president of Unite Here, wrote that they did not want to see Mrs. Clinton or the Democratic Party embarrassed by the anti-union activities of Mr. Penn’s firm, Burson-Marsteller, one of the nation’s leading public relations companies.

    The rest of the article is here.

    The be fair to Clinton, she is not the only Democratic leader who has either financial ties or relationships directly or via staff/consultants to anti-union companies. It’s a plague. And it should be stopped.