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Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.100.81 with SMTP id x17cs92305vcn; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:59:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.58.9 with SMTP id g9mr5337339ana.189.1293155958234; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:59:18 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <mpbonner@bonnergrp.com> Received: from smtp02.myhostedservice.com (smtp02.myhostedservice.com [66.129.85.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w17si25168372anw.97.2010.12.23.17.59.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 66.129.85.153 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of mpbonner@bonnergrp.com) client-ip=66.129.85.153; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 66.129.85.153 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of mpbonner@bonnergrp.com) smtp.mail=mpbonner@bonnergrp.com Received: from exmb01.netplexity.local (172.29.251.43) by smtp02.myhostedservice.com (172.29.211.12) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.0.702.0; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:59:14 -0500 Received: from MBX01.netplexity.local ([172.29.251.92]) by exmb01.netplexity.local ([172.29.251.43]) with mapi; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:59:17 -0500 From: Mary Pat Bonner <mpbonner@bonnergrp.com> To: "John.Podesta@gmail.com" <John.Podesta@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:59:16 -0500 Subject: Thanks Thread-Topic: Thanks Thread-Index: AcujDitaGe0hJljhQ0uqA9ZZxPRKWg== Message-ID: <D8A72943A4200045A620F28CED197D3734695B57E1@MBX01.netplexity.local> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Return-Path: mpbonner@bonnergrp.com Thanks for reaching out David,=20 The following is a business memo based upon a discussion I had with my lawy= er yesterday about what will create the least problems legally for me and f= or you, my thoughts on what is workable for me and the input you have given= me throughout our numerous conversations on what you want. =20 The goals of this memo are as follows: =20 1) To eliminate conflict -- To not create a scenario where I am responsible= for the budget of the IE and therefore in conflict with you all the time = on if we are hitting your goals. 2) To help you to begin aggressively raising funds immediately, -- so as t= o get in as much money in the door as early as possible in early January s= o we can begin operating 3) To give you the flexibility to hire whoever you want whenever you want t= o IE's fund-raising without having any tension or conflict with me about i= t. 4) To give you and me the ability to say that the IE is not paying high pri= ced consultants with donor funds. 5) To give me the financial security and incentive to continue to raise as = much money as possible for the C3 and C4 and my part of the IE. 6) To give me the comfort to know that donors I have introduced you to are = not being turned over to other fund-raisers. 7) To allow us to do this "together" which you and I have always agreed tha= t we want. =20 Based upon my lawyers advice, I actually think we can do something quite si= mple. =20 We would leave the C3 contract alone knowing that we might have some donors= who will give to the IE instead of the C3 thus affecting my commission. I= have simply decided to not worry if my commissions goes down -- it is fine= , I will make it up in other ways.=20 We would leave the C4 contract alone but we would use the rule we have alwa= ys used. "If a donor comes into the C4 who is not one of "our people" (so = introduced by someone else) - I will simply not charge for them. I have c= onfidence in this because actually the easiest thing about or relationship = for 6 years is that we have virtually never had contention over the payment= on a contribution. On the IE -- I would solicit a predetermined list of donors (which would in= clude all of the funders that are "our" list that we work with you on now -= current donors and real prospects). We could be paid as little as the law= yers would allow. You could then hire a fleet of fund-raising consultants across the country = to do a very deep dive into multiple states to get as many other donors as = possible to give. =20 Additionally, this structure would allow people like Susie McCue the confi= dence to give her names and solicit for us since I would not be being paid = for or adding her people to my lists to solicit. I believe that this would allow you and I to have a SIMPLE work relationshi= p: since for the IE -- basically I will only be working on a predetermined= list that are clearly our prospects together. I will then give you a s= trategy for each prospect on the predetermined list and you can change it a= ny way you want, and decide where you want to ask for the donation go and t= hen I can just implement. Under this scenario I will continue to prospect new funders - but only for = the C3 and C4 thus eleviating any conflict with you other IE fund raisers o= ver who knows a given prospect better or would have a better chance getting= them. They can just do everyone else. I believe this scenario is very simple, alleviates all opportunity for tens= ion, gives us the best opportunity to continue to work together easily, all= ows us to again have fun working together, and allows you to have an advis= or whose motivation you can again trust completely since everything is pre-= decided on my part of the fund-raising and you basically control the strate= gy with each of the people on "our" list from the beginning.=20 Additionally, it gives you the flexibility to have you help me with as much= political and big picture strategy around the IE and you want since it wil= l be clear from the beginning what I am doing and therefore also clear I am= not angling for anything. I hope this meets your goals and can again put our work relationship on tra= ck. Mary Pat PS. Please feel free to share this with Matt and Dave if you want to. Sin= ce they were both in the lawyers meeting - they can see if there is any int= ersection between their thoughts and this.=