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Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.49.9 with SMTP id b9cs120949rvk; Thu, 22 May 2008 08:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.60.15 with SMTP id n15mr285123pyk.41.1211470105271; Thu, 22 May 2008 08:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <pbegala@hatcreekent.com> Received: from outbound.mse9.exchange.ms (outbound.mse9.exchange.ms [69.25.50.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id y45si4724788pyg.9.2008.05.22.08.28.24; Thu, 22 May 2008 08:28:25 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of pbegala@hatcreekent.com designates 69.25.50.217 as permitted sender) client-ip=69.25.50.217; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of pbegala@hatcreekent.com designates 69.25.50.217 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=pbegala@hatcreekent.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: senior staff discussions Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 11:30:25 -0400 Message-ID: <DD3F85C93FEB8A489C0283BD1379358A04D72604@ms18.mse9.exchange.ms> In-Reply-To: <87906ab90805220821y75fd63d3l5c8838a89fca0c1f@mail.gmail.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: senior staff discussions Thread-Index: Aci8H4HOeJervsylSzSWEAYI/of7ZAAATZsw From: "Begala, Paul" <pbegala@hatcreekent.com> To: tom@zzranch.com, tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org CC: susan@messageinc.com, davidbrockdc@gmail.com, jpodesta@americanprogress.org, "John Podesta" <john.podesta@gmail.com>, Ki.Hong@skadden.com, matthewsbutler@gmail.com (to quote my kids...) You all ROCK!! =20 -----Original Message----- From: tmatzzie@gmail.com [mailto:tmatzzie@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Tom Matzzie Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:21 AM To: tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org Cc: Begala, Paul; susan@messageinc.com; davidbrockdc@gmail.com; jpodesta@americanprogress.org; John Podesta; Ki.Hong@skadden.com; matthewsbutler@gmail.com Subject: Re: senior staff discussions Just to give our team another high-five. The Post story was written in the sequence our researcher wrote the source oppo document. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:46 PM, <tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org> wrote: > One more post cover story tomorrow with charlie black research from the team. > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR2008 > 052103006.html=20 > <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/21/AR200 > 8052103006.html> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Begala, Paul" <pbegala@hatcreekent.com> > > Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 18:11:19 > To:<tom@zzranch.com>,<susan@messageinc.com> > Cc:<davidbrockdc@gmail.com>,<jpodesta@americanprogress.org>,<john.pode > sta@gmail.com>,<Ki.Hong@skadden.com>,<tmcguinness@progressivemediausa. > org>,<matthewsbutler@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: senior staff discussions > > > Okay. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: tmatzzie@gmail.com <tmatzzie@gmail.com> > To: Susan McCue <Susan@messageinc.com> > Cc: davidbrockdc@gmail.com <davidbrockdc@gmail.com>; Begala, Paul;=20 > jpodesta@americanprogress.org <jpodesta@americanprogress.org>; John=20 > Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com>; Ki.Hong@skadden.com=20 > <Ki.Hong@skadden.com>; tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org=20 > <tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org>; Matt Butler=20 > <matthewsbutler@gmail.com> > Sent: Wed May 21 17:58:35 2008 > Subject: Re: senior staff discussions > > I guess this means no call tomorrow since we're not engaging with=20 > 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=20 > <mailto:davidbrockdc@gmail.com> ] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008=20 > 1:34 PM > To: Paul Begala; Tom Matzzie; davidbrockdc@gmail.com; Susan > Mccue; jpodesta@americanprogress.org; John Podesta > Cc:=20 > Ki.Hong@skadden.com; tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org; Matt Butler > > Subject: Re: senior staff discussions > > The way we left it on=20 > our call yesterday was that jen from cap and eric from media matters=20 > were going to talk to each other, to tara, to christina, ari etc as=20 > they try to knit something together that works > That's how the=20 > conversation should proceed I think before we can answer the kinds of=20 > questions being asked > -----Original Message----- > From: "Begala,=20 > Paul" <pbegala@hatcreekent.com> > > Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:23 > >=20 > To:<tom@zzranch.com>,<davidbrockdc@gmail.com>,<susan@messageinc.com>,< > jpodesta@americanprogress.org>,<john.podesta@gmail.com> > >=20 > Cc:<Ki.Hong@skadden.com>,<tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org>,<matthe > wsbutler@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: senior staff discussions > > >=20 > 3 pm Thurs works for me. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: tmatzzie@gmail.com <tmatzzie@gmail.com> > To: David Brock=20 > (davidbrock@gmail.com) <davidbrockdc@gmail.com>; Susan Mccue=20 > <Susan@messageinc.com>; Begala, Paul; John Podesta=20 > <jpodesta@americanprogress.org>; John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> > > Cc: Hong, Ki P (WAS) <Ki.Hong@skadden.com>; Tara McGuinness=20 > <tmcguinness@progressivemediausa.org>; Matt Butler=20 > <matthewsbutler@gmail.com> > Sent: Wed May 21 13:16:16 2008 > =20 > 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=20 > join > the conversation rather than be subject to it. Seems fair.=20 > Because Ari > gets married on Sunday we have a window to have them=20 > all on the line > Thursday afternoon. Ari meets with his wedding=20 > 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 =20 > > resources that we have--dump the research book and the video, etc.. > on > the web. Something to discuss. > > > > best, > > > > -Tom > > > > > > >