RE: Hi it's Huma

From:MBerger@bergersingerman.com To: ha16@hillaryclinton.com CC: john.podesta@gmail.com, dcheng@hillaryclinton.ocom Date: 2015-07-18 17:47 Subject: RE: Hi it's Huma

Huma , Following up on our conversation , some observations and suggestions. The observations are anecdotal , if you agree with them you can either accept them or data test them through research. When President Clinton ran for office in 1992 an new generation of “bundlers” emerged. They had been just below the surface Learning the business in the 1988 campaign(Terry McCauliffe and David Jones with Gephardt ;Peter knight , Ken Jarin ,Alan Kessler, Gordon Giffin ,Vance Opperman ,Elizabeth Bagley, Pam Eakes, yours truly and others with Gore, Michael Adler with Biden, Bob Farmer and Marvin Rosen with Dukakis, )and in 92 fully emerged to put a new generation of leadership into office. David Wilhelm , Rahm Emmanuel, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Whouley ., Paul Carey ,Regina Montoya , emerged in the 92 campaign along with a new infusion of time line younger fundraisers like Jorge Perez, Chris Korge, Paul Cejas Clay Constantine, Alan Solomont, Jack Rosen, Arthur Schechter… There are others who came along Carol Penske., Beth Doesertz ,to name a few.. Kerry recruited a few new ones like Alex Heckler but essentially it was still the same group…Lew Solomon was always an outlier This group and others took rotating leadership roles in various important campaigns until 2008 .. Then a new group of bundlers emerged in their late 30’s and early 40’s people like Matthew Barzun, Frank Sanchez, Henry Munoz, Paula Boggs, Kurt Wagar, Suzie LeVine ,Andrew Weinstein along with them a new group of political talent emerged many of whom are currently employed by you. These types of individuals were not well represented on Thursday. It seems to me that many more of your 100 plus bundlers must emerge from the 35 to 45 group. Ideally they should not be legacies but individuals who are making their way up the latter to leadership in their communities and wish to promote large amount of time and resources to this effort because they believe that the effort will insure a better future for their families, businesses , communities and country will be well served by their effort here. They also wish to network with like -minded entrepreneurial emerging professionals and business leaders. It is their networks, employees , business associates, that are the back bones of communities day in and day out. The 55 plus crowd has money yes, but the 35 plus crowd makes or breaks campaigns. They bring money , marbles and chalk…the whole package. This group also needs to understand sending a group email is not the type of networking needed to bundle large sums of money , unless the rules of fundraising for bundlers have completely changed during the last decade. These platitudes aside , And you may have already given some thought to this and if you have , please forgive the redundancy. If my observations present a concern -what can be done to attract the 35 plus bundler to this campaign Some suggestions. Have your political staff who used to work for Obama identify the young Obama bundlers who did not perform or underperformed to date, set time aside from the candidate and campaign leadership to meet with them and talk to them separately. You might do a series of dinners with them in New Hampshire , Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada in which they are invited to bring 10 k a piece. Theoretically , they would be asked to come to a primary /caucus state to engage taking less of the candidates time while giving them a unique experience to Meet the local staff on the ground and talk to HRC in a primary ,or caucus setting; this should be done by specific word of mouth invitation and emphasize it is for those who bundled large sums in the past but have not yet fully participated in the 2016 campaign .Preferably everyone in the room would be under 45 who has come to meet HRC and by coming they show they would like to be persuaded to be more engaged. By keeping the meetings word of mouth it will add to the exclusivity and importance of them. Identify the new performers and promote them .Have your staff Identify the next generation of fundraisers those who have raised in the 27k range and are 35 to 45 years old .Have them mentored by your established fundraisers. Arrange small dinners for them with your established fundraisers so Ideas can be exchanged on how the established fundraisers can teach the 35 to 45 year olds to access their emerging networks. Over the next three months try to set aside time for the underperforming Obama bundlers and the emerging 35 year olds (preferably non legacies) with HRC as she travels to their communities. Either around an event or separate OTR’s .Make sure when this happens it is with this group exclusively. Obviously the top line narrative of the campaign cannot be experience alone to attract this group. Since the beginning of time, This group has always been a disruptive group … It is my gut feeling that the uniqueness of the possibility of having first woman president resonates much more with the 55 plus set than the 35 plus set And this group always thinks youth and enthusiasm is more valuable than age and experience. Clinton 92 ,Obama 08.Reagan,the exception as I understand it did attract a youthful group of financial backers(It’s morning in America…),although I am not intimate with the particulars of the Reagan campaign having worked for Carter. I end where I began, while not a precise statistical indicator, an anecdotal indicator to me in a Presidential campaign(Carter Staff 1975) is where the young entrepreneurial money is going. I believe there are ways to promote the campaign to be more accessible to this money which will have intangible political benefits. For what it’s worth… Of course it goes without saying , but should still be said 47 million is a phenomenal start. Congratulations to all. These observations are made to be disregarded if considered as critical or unhelpful or to be accepted to the extent they are found to be helpful as part of a team effort. Thank you all for your great effort on behalf of the country and my family and me. Mitchell really appreciate it take what you say seriously thanks for coming today On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Mitchell W. Berger <MBerger@bergersingerman.com<mailto:MBerger@bergersingerman.com>> wrote: Thx will send thoughts over weekend. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 16, 2015, at 8:55 PM, Huma Abedin <ha16@hillaryclinton.com<mailto:ha16@hillaryclinton.com>> wrote: > > Sent from my iPhone >