Subject: LPAC
From: "Joshua Alcorn" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:27:51 -0400

Hunter - 

Pasted below is a brief (by my standards!) memo I wanted to get in to the VP’s hands last week. Sent it to Kathy, but not sure she passed it on since I was still formally with the PAC.

We have paperwork for filing with the FEC and a website ready to roll for Unite Our Country PAC. The logo is attached as well. We can probably have it up and running by mid-week. We settled on that name months ago, but it makes even more sense in light of her “republicans are my enemy” line.

The only addition I would make to the below memo is that we should have a component of the national finance committee that asks them to pledge to write $1,000 checks to 5 candidates of the VP’s choosing, in addition to writing/raising 50k over the next 13 months to the PAC.

Definitely want to move on this quickly, for all the reasons you know.

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> Sir - Here’s a first draft of the Leadership PAC “first day” list. Each of these folks can and should do the max - most of them have a spouse who can do the same. It’s $1m at the very minimum, and we’re not going beyond the low hanging fruit on my list (grassroots, labor PACs, etc.). Schrum has more to add, I’m sure. Many of these would raise an additional $10-50k for the PAC. By the way, individuals and PACs can do $5,000 in 2015 and another $5,000 in 2016. So we’d be able to go back to all of these folks for an additional $5,000 in January.
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> Back in June, I laid out a plan for a $4-5m PAC between then and November 2016. Obviously we’re a few months further down the road, but there are a lot more folks ready to help now than there were back then. Also, don’t forget, you have an actual, tangible, email list - something a leadership PAC can buy from my last project. That $4-5m goal is still achievable, though a heavy lift. That is more than most folks in leadership on the Hill raise in a 2 year cycle. It will require events in DC, NY, CA, etc.
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> I think there’s no better time to show your fundraising strength than right now. I could go on and on about the benefits of the PAC: it can make sure you’re able to travel to support whichever candidates you want to - Mowrer in IA, Kamala in CA, etc. Now’s the time to direct the wealth of support you have. We can roll out a PAC board and national finance committee early next week with no problem. There’s a website ready to go, and as I mentioned, the email list is there for the basis of your grassroots network. We could have this up and running with the flip of a switch. 
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> Many things from your speech today struck me. One in particular: there’s a policy/advocacy side to the PAC. Think of Bloomberg and his focus on guns with his PAC or Tom Steyer and his enviro PAC. You can pick a few important legislative or policy issues and make them the planks of your PAC. Not suggesting you would be as single minded as Bloomberg or Steyer, but you could build your national network around the things you talked about today - income inequality, middle class values, jobs, scientific and medicinal research. You could support candidates who have those same priorities. 
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> Finally, and I know I’m piling on here, building out this political and donor network now, gives you even more strength going in to 2016 and beyond. Beau and I always talked about getting folks on record as “Biden donors” just once - so we could come back to them again for the next project we had. I’ve spent the last three months raising money for the PAC (over $700,000) and there are thousands of people ready to step up again. That’s a real thing - it’s a political network of your own that is ready to move - for you and what you believe in. These folks will be there for you in whatever capacity you need them to be. Having a huge group behind you is never a bad thing.
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> I can only imagine how emotionally charged today must have been for you and your family. Sorry if this email is a lot at one time - but I’m excited to get back to work for you. I’m headed to Nashville this weekend to visit my in-laws. Will be at Wilm. CC on Monday for the foundation event. Happy to talk with you and your team at any point over the phone.
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> Talk to you soon,
> /ja
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