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Fwd: FLAG: NJDSC Chairman Currie Call

From:jp66@hillaryclinton.com To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2015-10-01 18:31 Subject: Fwd: FLAG: NJDSC Chairman Currie Call

Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: * John- I see the exchange with Kelly Maer about a call with NJDSC Chairman John Currie. They also reached out to Lyle Canceko (Political) about this today and he wanted to make sure that he gave you the backstory before you make the call. See the below email from Marlon last month, which pretty much lays out the whole thing. Basically Currie wants a title for either himself or for Kelly, which Marlon is not inclined to grant, and there's been some difficulties around that negotiation process. Lyle walked me through it tonight so I'm happy to talk though tomorrow morning if you need more context after Marlon's email. Can also get Lyle or Marlon on the phone. Lyle put me on email with Kelly about scheduling a call, so will proceed to put something on the books for tomorrow afternoon. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- FYI The NJ State Party is a trip. You all have seen the emails. Well they wanted us to agree for the the Chairman to be the Campaign Chair in order for them to sign the Joint Fundraising Agreement. I told them we were not doing that, but we could continue those conversations if we ever were. Then they wanted to talk delegates and think about how that could be tied together to the JFA. I told them I would schedule a call so we could discuss what that means. So we got on the phone with them and they wanted a agreement for a person to be our authorized representative. Problem is, we are not at that point to pick those people AND they wanted the person to be a state party employee, which presents a conflict of interest because an authorized rep works with the state party. It's not something we would normally do. All that being said, I told them we would pass at this time but lets keep talking about everything. Of course, to them this means we reneged on a deal but we never made a deal. They said they wanted it to be a certain way and we said we would get back to them. Anyways, I will continue to try to smooth this over with them but the whole tying an authorized rep who works for them to the JFA didn't sit well, is a conflict of interest, and is shady. We just wanted to work with them on a JFA. Just want to flag cause I am sure that John Graham, who emails us constantly, will be speaking up on this. Anyways, wanted to flag and happy to answer any questions. Marlon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Chris, I am sorry that you feel as though a promise was reneged. As we discussed on the phone today, I said the general details of what you discussed sounded good but I wanted to get our team on the phone so we could get into the weeds on the delegate and what that meant. We have not started talking about authorized representatives in any state as of now as we are not at that point in the campaign. I am not at all saying that we cannot continue to have this conversation and/or ultimately get to the same place. You all have been fantastic in your support of the Secretary and we appreciate that. However, I do not want to rush what we are still figuring out in order to meet the JFA deadline and tie the two together. This is NO WAY is a statement on us wanting to continue to work together to discuss any potential future staffing as we talked about, any political structure, and an authorized rep. We are just not there on those things yet. So I am not comfortable tying all that together. I still want to have those conversations with you as we continue to move forward in the campaign. As mentioned in the previous email, rumors of a potential NJ chair continue to be false. We have appreciated all the work you have done and hope we can continue to discuss. As Lyle and David mentioned on the call, they wanted to run the thoughts by me. Understanding that this is something that is a little off our timeline, I want to wait to have that conversation and lock in details, but I still want to have it. I understand if that precludes you from signing the JFA right now. However, I hope you realize we are not trying to renege on a promise or deal. I wanted to get to a place where we could meet and understood your concerns from today, however knowing we can't move as fast as you would like on those pieces, I wanted to be an honest broker with you just as you were with me. I hope we can continue to keep the lines of communication open for the things we discussed. We do appreciate all your support and I hope that us sticking to our timeline doesn't change our working relationship. I do apologize for any confusion or inconvenience and am happy to relay that on the phone to anyone. Thanks Chris, Marlon On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:12 PM, <chris@njdems.org> wrote: > Marlon, > > This is a major problem. I have already told the Chairman we have a deal > and the campaign reneging on a promise to the Chairman is just ridiculous > and disrespectful to the Chairman. > > We have tried to work as honest brokers during this process. After > delivering the majority of New Jersey's Democratic Party for the Secretary > we can't get an agreement on something as simple as the Authorized > Representative during the delegate selection process? This is ridiculous. > > I had a conversation with your staff as if it was the final decision so we > can come to an agreement and put this issue to bed. Receiving this email is > discouraging and an uneasy indication of how we will proceed during this > long campaign season. > > As you can imagine I will not be signing on to the JFA. > > Chris > > ------------------------------ > * -- JP jp66@hillaryclinton.com For scheduling: mfisher@hillaryclinton.com -- Milia Fisher Special Assistant to the Chair Hillary for America mfisher@hillaryclinton.com c: 858.395.1741