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Received: by 10.151.114.18 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8dd172e0807212127q16a83bbbq1b1f7f6e935d16cd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:27:27 -0500 From: "John Podesta" <john.podesta@gmail.com> To: "Chris Lu" <clu@barackobama.com> Subject: Re: connectivity In-Reply-To: <1B00035490093D4A9609987376E3B8331CA45870@manny.obama.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_47923_31154714.1216700847242" References: <8dd172e0807202125w7d6db167qf9ffebc8e63ebe66@mail.gmail.com> <1B00035490093D4A9609987376E3B8331CA45870@manny.obama.local> Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com ------=_Part_47923_31154714.1216700847242 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Great. I'll call you Wednesday am. On 7/21/08, Chris Lu <clu@barackobama.com> wrote: > > Hope you're having a good trip. Just wanted to give you an update on a > few things: > > 1) We had a good conference call on Friday. All of the board members are > instructed to turn in mission statements for their working group, as well as > proposed working group leaders, by Wednesday. I'll compile them and discuss > with you other names of working group leaders that we want to throw into the > mix. > > 2) I told the board about the fundraising goal of $25,000 each. So far, > I've only heard back from Valerie, and she has a commitments for $30,000. > > 3) Everyone is fine with meeting in Chicago on August 1. The preference > was the afternoon, so I've asked Adam to look for a place to hold the > meeting. > > 4) The August 11 date was problematic for some people, so some people > suggested August 8. Adam is checking to see whether that's a better day for > more people. Don't know if that works for you or not. > > 5) Obama isn't available either August 1 or August 11 even just to call in > (so says our scheduler). If you think it's critical that he participate for > some amount of time, I can press harder or we can consider other dates for > the meetings. My initial instinct was not to press it, since it's more > important that we get time later in the summer/fall. > > 6) I will check with Bob Bauer to make sure we're on target for starting > the trust on August 1. We're also trying to nail down the office space > situation with Jim Messina. > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* John Podesta [mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Sun 7/20/2008 11:25 PM > *To:* pogden@amprog.org > *Cc:* Chris Lu > *Subject:* connectivity > > > You may have gotten this message before, but i think it did ot go thru, I > can't pull down my CAP email here. Gmail works. if you need to get me > anything, send it to john.podesta@gmail.com > Pete, can you ask Anna to send any phone messages there as well. > ------=_Part_47923_31154714.1216700847242 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Great. I'll call you Wednesday am.<br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/21/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Lu</b> <<a href="mailto:clu@barackobama.com">clu@barackobama.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">Hope you're having a good trip. Just wanted to give you an update on a few things:</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">1) We had a good conference call on Friday. All of the board members are instructed to turn in mission statements for their working group, as well as proposed working group leaders, by Wednesday. I'll compile them and discuss with you other names of working group leaders that we want to throw into the mix.</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">2) I told the board about the fundraising goal of $25,000 each. So far, I've only heard back from Valerie, and she has a commitments for $30,000.</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">3) Everyone is fine with meeting in Chicago on August 1. The preference was the afternoon, so I've asked Adam to look for a place to hold the meeting. </font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">4) The August 11 date was problematic for some people, so some people suggested August 8. Adam is checking to see whether that's a better day for more people. Don't know if that works for you or not.</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">5) Obama isn't available either August 1 or August 11 even just to call in (so says our scheduler). If you think it's critical that he participate for some amount of time, I can press harder or we can consider other dates for the meetings. My initial instinct was not to press it, since it's more important that we get time later in the summer/fall.</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2">6) I will check with Bob Bauer to make sure we're on target for starting the trust on August 1. We're also trying to nail down the office space situation with Jim Messina.</font></div> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div></div> <div dir="ltr"><br> <hr> <font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> John Podesta [mailto:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.podesta@gmail.com</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b> Sun 7/20/2008 11:25 PM<br> <b>To:</b> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:pogden@amprog.org" target="_blank">pogden@amprog.org</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Chris Lu<br><b>Subject:</b> connectivity<br></font><br> </div><span class="q"> <div> <div>You may have gotten this message before, but i think it did ot go thru, I can't pull down my CAP email here. Gmail works. if you need to get me anything, send it to <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:john.podesta@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.podesta@gmail.com</a></div> <div>Pete, can you ask Anna to send any phone messages there as well.</div></div></span></div></blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_47923_31154714.1216700847242--