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Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.49.9 with SMTP id b9cs89776rvk; Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.72.11 with SMTP id u11mr1107412yba.118.1211413210730; Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org> Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.156]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 6si3612671ywi.1.2008.05.21.16.40.06; Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:10 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 74.125.46.156 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org) client-ip=74.125.46.156; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 74.125.46.156 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org) smtp.mail=tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1837145ywm.34 for <john.podesta@gmail.com>; Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.108.13 with SMTP id k13mr1115239ybm.84.1211413206063; Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org> Received: from Kate ( [74.211.201.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m6sm4558514wrm.35.2008.05.21.16.40.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: <tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org> From: "Tara McGuinness" <tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org> To: tom@zzranch.com, "'Susan McCue'" <Susan@messageinc.com> CC: davidbrockdc@gmail.com, "'Paul Begala'" <pbegala@hatcreekent.com>, jpodesta@americanprogress.org, "'John Podesta'" <john.podesta@gmail.com>, Ki.Hong@skadden.com, "'Matt Butler'" <matthewsbutler@gmail.com> References: <DD3F85C93FEB8A489C0283BD1379358A04431EA9@ms18.mse9.exchange.ms> <92016364-1211391196-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-476095703-@bxe013.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> <007701c8bb78$2c430b00$84c92100$@com> <87906ab90805211458m3144fb5cvaf2e761fced6bdaa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <87906ab90805211458m3144fb5cvaf2e761fced6bdaa@mail.gmail.com> Subject: RE: senior staff discussions Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 19:38:30 -0400 Organization: Progressive Media USA Message-ID: <007d01c8bb9b$c794ec90$56bec5b0$@org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Aci7jdK24PyOhKJ8QNGXa5PzvL9ZoQADdgcA Content-Language: en-us I had a good conversation with Jen today. She is meeting Eric in the morning. I do feel the need to announce the next step to staff (or at least an update) before the long weekend. -----Original Message----- From: tmatzzie@gmail.com [mailto:tmatzzie@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tom Matzzie Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:59 PM To: Susan McCue Cc: davidbrockdc@gmail.com; Paul Begala; jpodesta@americanprogress.org; John Podesta; Ki.Hong@skadden.com; tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org; Matt Butler Subject: Re: senior staff discussions I guess this means no call tomorrow since we're not engaging with Eric yet and Jen only this afternoon. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Susan McCue <Susan@messageinc.com> wrote: > Makes sense. Can erin and jen talk to them soon? > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Brock [mailto:davidbrockdc@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:34 PM > To: Paul Begala; Tom Matzzie; davidbrockdc@gmail.com; Susan Mccue; jpodesta@americanprogress.org; John Podesta > Cc: Ki.Hong@skadden.com; tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org; Matt Butler > Subject: Re: senior staff discussions > > The way we left it on our call yesterday was that jen from cap and eric from media matters were going to talk to each other, to tara, to christina, ari etc as they try to knit something together that works > That's how the conversation should proceed I think before we can answer the kinds of questions being asked > -----Original Message----- > From: "Begala, Paul" <pbegala@hatcreekent.com> > > Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:23 > To:<tom@zzranch.com>,<davidbrockdc@gmail.com>,<susan@messageinc.com>,<jpodes ta@americanprogress.org>,<john.podesta@gmail.com> > Cc:<Ki.Hong@skadden.com>,<tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org>,<matthewsbutl er@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: senior staff discussions > > > 3 pm Thurs works for me. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: tmatzzie@gmail.com <tmatzzie@gmail.com> > To: David Brock (davidbrock@gmail.com) <davidbrockdc@gmail.com>; Susan Mccue <Susan@messageinc.com>; Begala, Paul; John Podesta <jpodesta@americanprogress.org>; John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> > Cc: Hong, Ki P (WAS) <Ki.Hong@skadden.com>; Tara McGuinness <tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org>; Matt Butler <matthewsbutler@gmail.com> > Sent: Wed May 21 13:16:16 2008 > Subject: senior staff discussions > > Team, > > Tara and I spoke with Ari and Christina. They really are smart and > committed to the work. > > They have a lot of questions that I can't answer. They want to join > the conversation rather than be subject to it. Seems fair. Because Ari > gets married on Sunday we have a window to have them all on the line > Thursday afternoon. Ari meets with his wedding Rabbi at 4:30 Eastern > but we're otherwise clear on our end. Can we try 3:00 PM Thursday? > > There was also a feeling that we should open-source a lot of the > resources that we have--dump the research book and the video, etc.. on > the web. Something to discuss. > > best, > > -Tom > > >