Fwd: Middle Class Donor program

From:john.podesta@gmail.com To: dcheng@hillaryclinton.com, msmith@hillaryclinton.com, hannon@hillaryclinton.com, aparkhomenko@hillaryclinton.com Date: 2015-12-12 14:57 Subject: Fwd: Middle Class Donor program

Ideas from a super vol. see notes on features to facilitate voter contact. I thought the idea of doing monthly moderated calls with folks who had signed up for a monthly contributions was worth considering. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hi John, It was such a pleasure to meet you at the Hillary fundraiser in Berkeley on Thursday evening. I particularly appreciated your gracious patience with my questions and comments. As I mentioned to you, if Hillary Clinton is basing a large part of her campaign on being a champion for the middle class, and because there is now so much emphasis on money in campaigns, many in the middle class are feeling left out of the process and seeing that only the wealthy have access to the candidate. I'm attaching a revised version of the proposal I handed you last night that I've renamed the *Middle Class Donor *program. Hillary could be the first candidate to reach out to the middle and working class supporters and welcome them into the campaign with more access to the candidate. I only ask in return that I be kept aware of your consideration and implementation of this program as it has been my idea (which I share freely). My other comments to you were in relation to the Hillary Clinton web site with regards to use by grassroots supporters. Here are my concerns: Events are not listed chronologically. There is no way to include "shifts" with a phone bank - so we have to list the same event twice with different times. If we split an event to do this, the shifts are not listed chronologically The event host is not able to email individual attendees. If we want to email RSVP's it's either EVERYONE receives the same email or NO ONE receives an email. Because Everyone sees the email, we have to be judicious with sending them. The old OFA web site allowed shifts and the option to email ALL or specific respondees. You'll note that very few people are posting events at hillaryclinton.com and even fewer people are going there to find events. Facebook has become the organization tool of choice but I'd think you'd want people going to hillaryclinton.com first for information. Thank you for your offer to share our concerns. Best regards, Susan Pfeifer -- Susan Pfeifer susanp4hillary@gmail.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','susanp4hillary@gmail.com');> Volunteer Leader: NorCal Hillary for America Steering Committee