Subject: Will Shafroth
From: "Alice Madden" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:00:24 -0600

Hi John,

Nice to talk to you today.  Wil Shafroth's resume is attached with some elaboration on his skills and interests below.  
Thx,
Alice

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from Will Shafroth:
1) I'm interested in serving in an Obama Administration in Interior, Agriculture, or Commerce at an Assistant Secretary level.  I could also work at CEQ.
2) I know the west very well. I've worked across the west for 27 years on natural resource issues -- agriculture, wildlife, land conservation, recreation, energy, forestry -- in both the nonprofit and government sectors. I've worked on local, state and federal policies as well as directly with landowners, local governments and conservationists to preserve land. I've also been someone who has worked well with Republicans and Democrats. 
3) Throughout my career I have successfully brought together diverse interests to the table to get things done.  Whether they be ranchers and conservationists, elected officials and sportsmen, or businesspeople and environmentalists, I have reached across the ideological divide and gotten people to sit down and work out solutions to tough natural resource problems.  Finding the middle-ground is not easy, but it's necessary when you are trying to pass public policies, developing a vision for a landscape, or preserving ranches and wildlife habitat.  
4) I am interested in serving in an Obama Administration because I believe that now is a critical time to have people working in the west who understand it and have the people and political skills to find balanced solutions to western natural resource issues.  If the Obama Administration can successfully find that balance and work through the tough challenges it faces, the Intermountain West could turn blue for many years to come.  I have those skills and know how to find that balance to move agendas forward.