Subject: RE: Infrastructure event in D.C.
From: "Michael Signer" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Hunter Biden'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Anne Marie Person'" <[email-masked]>, "'Eric Schwerin'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 11:29:59 -0400

Hunter:  

Hope you had good travels—I just left you a voicemail and am available to talk this afternoon.  CG/LA has been in touch with OVP’s scheduler and has had some positive signals, but I don’t think things have gotten more concrete.  

And looking forward to seeing you at the Truman Board meeting Thursday.

All best,

Mike 

From: Hunter Biden [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:47 PM
To: Michael Signer
Cc: Anne Marie Person; Eric Schwerin
Subject: Re: Infrastructure event in D.C.

Sorry for very late response. I am checking on this. Please call me early next week.

RHB

202.333.1880

On Sep 22, 2011, at 6:41 AM, "Michael Signer" <[email-masked]> wrote:

Hunter:  

I hope this finds you doing well and greetings from London—I’m on a long layover here with my fiancée on the way back from an extraordinary Truman Project delegation to Turkey.  

I wanted to connect with you about an upcoming event in D.C.  I’ve been getting increasingly alarmed about the sluggish and scattered nature of our infrastructure policy—to the extent we even have one—and the likelihood that the President’s calls for an infrastructure bank are going to be ignored.  In the ongoing discussion about how Truman should leverage our platform to influence policy in certain areas—the “national security AND” question—I’ve been talking with Rachel Kleinfeld recently about whether we could do something on infrastructure and we’re going to discuss in coming months.  

There’s a particularly bold and assertive infrastructure guy in D.C. who’s become both a friend and a client of mine over the last couple of years, named Norm Anderson—he runs an outfit called CG/LA Infrastructure in D.C. and works with companies and governments around the world on projects like bridges, roads, high-speed rail, and water projects.  He has been trying to sound the alarm on how haphazard our infrastructure strategy is in op-eds and TV appearances, but it’s hard to get the message through, though we are trying hard.

Every year, CG/LA does a conference on infrastructure in D.C. called the North American Leadership Forum that’s attended by several hundred companies, finance types, and experts.  Last year, Tom Friedman and Mark Warner were involved, among others.  This year, the conference is on October 11-13 at the Marriott Wardman Hotel on Capitol Hill.  I’m attaching an agenda for your reference.  

Especially on the heels of the president’s jobs plan and focus on infrastructure, the event could do a lot to push infrastructure into policymakers’ minds.  The most significant person who could help, short of the President, would be your father, especially given how eloquently and emotionally he speaks about these issues.  I’m loath to contact you for that purpose (and am sure it must become tiring when everyone you know does the same thing), but in this case I wanted to make a rare exception.  

I’m not even sure whether he will be in the country or DC in that timeframe, but if you had any ability to suggest to him or his staff that he consider attending this, they would craft a keynote and work whatever else out to make it easy and powerful.  (I also reached out to Tony Blinken, and he has forwarded the agenda to the economic policy folks, but I thought it couldn’t hurt to ask you as well).

And if you’re interested in attending the Forum, please let me know and I’ll make arrangements.

And, of course, no sweat if this won’t work, or if this request is untimely, inappropriate, redundant, or anything else.  Thanks much and I look forward to seeing you at the next Board meeting.

All best,

Mike 

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