Subject: IPU
From: "rick vitali" <[email-masked]>
To: "a hoffman" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Larry Rasky" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:03:58 -0400

Hi all.  I got a phone call yesterday from a guy named Tom Costin, who was one of Ted Kennedy's closest friends.  Somehow he is connected to the folks at the IPU --the Inter-Parlimentary Union. The IPU is holding an assembly in Panama April 15-20.  Apparently,  the US dropped out of the IPU in 2003.  Costin met last week in DC with Senator Kerry,  who said he would send members from his office and work to get a US delegation to the assembly.  Costin called me based on my relationship with the VP (whatever that is or was) to see if the IPU folks could meet with the VP or someone in the VP's office to help explore whether the US could rejoin the IPU.  Any help or guidance would be appreciated. I can provide more info if need be, but that's the basics.  Thank