Subject: Re: Communications Surrogate List
From: "Manriquez, Pablo" <[email-masked]>
To: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 09:08:08 -0700

To fill you in — Basically we all have our metrics we’re trying to sell to Brooklyn. Eric has his press calls, I have my bookings, she has this surrogate database. The premise behind her surrogate database actually makes a lot of sense, that official DNC surrogates need to be vetted before going live.

The problem she has is that someone who will for now remain nameless for the moment promised Brooklyn 1,000 vetted surrogates by 1 June. That same someone force-fed through approvals the creation of the most meat-headed sign-up form in the history of the Internet as the gateway to surrogacy. Then Community Engagement stepped up promising to get the database populated (sound familiar? e-hem, Hispanic summit). CE did not deliver.

Jen is now at a little over 600 surrogates (not sure how many are actually vetted) and starting to freak out. The database is already populated with low-hanging fruit — DNC members, national, and state party officials and so on. I told her regionals don’t really use surrogates beyond what she already has. She told me Lindsey Reynolds will come by and yell at us if we don’t do what she says. I laughed really hard.

To bring it full circle — Just like media monitoring isn’t my job, this isn’t our job. If we’re not going to do it, let’s not do it. Finance is immune from this BS. We should be too.

On May 11, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Walker, Eric <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Isn’t this her job?

From: Sanchez, Jennifer
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 6:50 PM
To: Manriquez, Pablo
Cc: Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric
Subject: Communications Surrogate List

Hi Pablo –
Thanks for the ideas and meeting today.
When do you think I can expect a Communications Surrogate List?
Attached is the template with the required fields needed for surrogates.
Let your team know they can find home addresses on VoteBuilder.
To meet deadlines on my end, I’d like roughly 200 contacts/talkers (roughly 20 surrogates per team member) by NOON May 19.
I can always check to see if a person is already in the database or answer any questions.
If that’s going to be an issue, let’s talk ASAP to discuss priorities with the bosses.
Thank you in advance.

Jennifer W. Sanchez
Deputy Director for Surrogate Operations
Democratic National Committee
Cell: 801.403.4817 |Office: 202.863.8070
Email: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> | Twitter: @jennsanchezmpa
Address: 430 S. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20003
www.Democrats.org<http://www.democrats.org/>

Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
web: democrats.org<http://www.democrats.org/>
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC