Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s top adman and the creator of her “3 a.m. red telephone” commercial has one of the country’s biggest credit card companies on speed dial – even though Clinton herself has pledged to “rein in” credit card interest rates.
Roy Spence, brought on to help Clinton rebrand her image after she won the New Hampshire primary, is a founding partner of GSD&M, an advertising company that lists MasterCard and other corporate giants like Pennzoil and Wal-Mart among its current and former clients.
Speaking to Ohioans last February, Clinton said she has “advocated that we rein in the credit card interest rates, cap them at 30 percent and get them below.”
And though Clinton has railed against big drug and insurance companies, her spokesman, Howard Wolfson, worked for a lobbying firm that represented America’s Health Insurance Plans, Pfizer and the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association.
Wolfson voluntarily left the Glover Park Group before accepting a job with Clinton, and insiders say there’s been no overlap between his old employer and current position.