Possible Clues:

• Very wet politician with external influence
• Wet politician in power
• Nickname of environmental activist Daniel Hooper
• Marsh-like
• Like England's "the Fens"
• Like England's 'the Fens'
• Wet politician is taken in by influence
• Paddled pathetically, disheartened and wet
• Muddy Waters opening for a Frenchman taken in by agent
• The nom de guerre of environmentalist Daniel Hooper