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following up on advance issue

From:jack.bury@gmail.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-09-29 16:56 Subject: following up on advance issue

Dear John, It was good speaking at Lynn de Rothchild’s event for David. I appreciate your understanding and consideration of an issue concerning my doing press advance work for the campaign. As requested, just to recap: After attending the campaign's Advance School, I was contacted by headquarters and asked to join the press advance team for Secretary Clinton’s economic roll out at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The event drew considerable media interest--more than 80 press requested credentials. However, despite the cramped conditions, the event was a great logistical success. Feedback was provided to headquarters on everyone who worked advance at the event. Evan Gramis, the overall team leader, relayed the report cards. Evan told me there was nothing but positive feedback on my performance from his end. However, another person on the advance team at this particular event relayed to headquarters that I “was not a team player”. Two people at headquarters confirmed this report came from this person. I can't claim to understand the basis of this feedback other than speculative observations of my interactions with the press. No one on the team approached me at the event or afterwards. The assessment of my performance comes from just one staffer at a single event (which was also my first event). The assessment couldn't be further from the truth. However, the feedback has caused a genuine misperception with the advance staff at headquarters in Brooklyn. The staff has prevented my involvement in future advance work for the campaign. As you already know--but I think it's relevant to mention-- I was raised in a household where both parents were Washington journalists. My entire professional career after college has been working in radio and TV news. Most recently, I was an assistant producer at CBS News and managed all foreign news coverage during CBS This Morning. Given this background, it’s understandable that I would have a natural rapport with the press -- and it's also understandable that I would encounter former colleagues at a major media event in NYC and be friendly with. However, it’s also precisely the job of a good press advance worker to be friendly and helpful to the press in availing oneself to the their logistical needs and basic questions concerning the event. For whatever reason, one person mistook my ease of interacting with the press as "not being a team player". But I think that most good advance workers would agree that the smallest opportunity to be kind and helpful and transparent to the press is an opportunity to positively effect coverage of the event and ultimately, of course, the candidate. I sincerely appreciate any efforts on your behalf that allow me to continue supporting this campaign for which I remain dedicated. Very sincerely, Jack Bury -- Jack Bury 202-731-2260