Subject: Re: FYI - Politico/AFT
From: Amanda Renteria <[email-masked]>
To: Jesse Ferguson <[email-masked]>
Cc: John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Marlon Marshall <[email-masked]>, Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 18:02:13 -0400

Tnx.  We felt this last night too.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 15, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Jesse Ferguson <[email-masked]>
wrote:

Just a quick heads up for you. There is a story coming from Politico with
folks critical of AFT for endorsing HRC so early. There may be additional
pieces from Time and Reuters.

The criticism comes from (1) some AFT members who don’t support Randi – 3K
in a petition; (2) other labor leaders (likely unnamed) who wanted AFT to
wait till end of month when they do full interviews.

We’ve coordinated our response with AFT Comm Staff. They are doing most of
the heavy lifting (as they should) to respond. We pointed out why it’s
helpful to have early endorsements and we’ll be on record in “appreciation”
of the endorsement.

Palmieri asked me to make sure you were looped in/aware.

Jesse F. Ferguson

Deputy National Press Secretary and Senior Spokesperson

@JesseFFerguson