Subject: Salutations!
From: "Shiloh Tillemann-Dick" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:58:36 -0400

Hunter,

I hope you're well. I'm sorry that this is the first time I'm reaching out
in years but I didn't want to add unnecessarily to your daily noise.

Firstly I'd like to offer my deepest condolences on losing Beau. He was a
great man and his loss is a misfortune for the entire country. I've buried
a lot of family and friends. For me those experiences have all been
extremely unique and personal and I don't have the emotional intelligence
necessary to tease out a universally comforting theme on loss to share with
anyone. I just know that those losses are terrible to deal with. I wish
your family and friends the very, very, best and for what it's worth, know
that there have been, and continue to be prayers coming from the extended
Lantos clan for your collective happiness and well being.

On a forward looking note, I just wanted to let you know that if your dad
decides to jump into the presidential race I'll quit what I'm doing and
sign up to knock doors, make calls, do complex data analysis, and whatever
else needs to be done as soon as I hear about it.

I've done political work my entire life but I've been transitioning my
career towards the private sector because of the deadlock and sclerosis
evident in a lot of the Federal establishment. This cycle I've had offers
to join the Clinton and Sanders campaigns (as well as a couple of
Republicans) but respectfully demurred. I wouldn't need an offer to work
for a Biden campaign, I'd be applying to every open position as soon as I
heard of it. Your dad is the  best opportunity for this country to magnify
the best work done over the last eight years and push this country towards
the ideals my grandfather worked for. To use a railroad analogy, if the
Obama Administration has been an Amtrak train (whether it's an Acela or a
diesel is up to debate) sending this country in the right direction, a
Biden Administration would be like going in the same direction on Elon
Musk's Hyperloop.

I am not writing this email to push decisions one way or the other. I'm
outside the loop as to the conversations and dynamics driving Democratic
Party politics at the highest levels, but do know that if that decision is
made there are a lot of seasoned players who are eager to throw everything
they have behind the right choice, not just the expedient one. On a more
personal note, I do hope we get the chance to catch up sometime. I would
hate to see our families drift apart. I remain most easily accessible at
this email address or at 720-935-7494.

All the best,

-Shiloh T