Subject: philadelphia
From: "Frizell, Sam - Time U.S. <[email-masked]>" <[email-masked]>
To: Luis Miranda <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Miller, Zeke - Time U.S. <[email-masked]>" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:47:00 +0000

Hi both,

We're working on a story about the convention. The angle for now is that Sanders will have limited leverage in Philadelphia because the committees will be made up of state delegates allocated based on each state's votes in the primary.

Also, the platform committee chair-appointed by DWS, according to the rules-appoints the platform drafters. So Sanders will have little direct influence over the platform.

Questions for you: Have all the committee chairs been approved?
Is the take-that Sanders is already losing convention battle-fair?
What preparations are taking place in the coming months?

Would be great to get ahead of this, and I'm sure much of it is going on now. Would be great to get thoughts.

Also a beer or two.

Thanks both-

--
Sam Frizell
Writer, TIME
(o) 202.861.4018
(c) 347.859.5363