Subject: Re: FW: Felicidades!
From: "Anita Dunn" <[email-masked]>
To: "Stephanie Cutter" <[email-masked]>, "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
Cc: "Dan Pfeiffer" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 11:33:23 -0600

That works

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From: Stephanie Cutter 
To: Chris Lu; [email-masked]' ; [email-masked]' 
Cc: Anita Dunn; Dan Pfeiffer; [email-masked]' 
Sent: Sat Nov 08 11:21:48 2008
Subject: Re: FW: Felicidades! 

Chris did background on this. She's pushing for something on the record. Going to give her this unless anyone objects: 

"President-elect Obama has pledged to run an open and inclusive government, so before he makes any decisions on potential executive or legislative actions, he will be conferring with congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle, as well as interested groups. And of course, any decisions would need to be discussed with his cabinet nominees, none of whom have been selected yet."

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From: Chris Lu 
To: Stephanie Cutter; [email-masked]' ; [email-masked] 
Cc: Anita Dunn; Dan Pfeiffer; [email-masked] 
Sent: Sat Nov 08 05:46:18 2008
Subject: RE: FW: Felicidades! 

I'm happy to do it, but probably more authoritative coming from John.  Your last point is a very good one -- if labor thinks we've made decisions already, they're going to be mad, since we specifically told them that we weren't making any decisions until we had a chance to sit down with them after Election Day.

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From: Stephanie Cutter
Sent: Fri 11/7/2008 10:40 PM
To: Chris Lu; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]
Cc: Anita Dunn; Dan Pfeiffer
Subject: FW: FW: Felicidades!

Chris/Podesta, 

Ceci Connolly and Jeff Smith are writing for Sunday that we’ve got a list of regulations ready to repeal.   See below.   

I walked back some of it – i.e. pre-transition team only looked at things Obama might want to repeal, but their mission was only to come up with ideas, not to make decisions, and whoever her source is, they’re way ahead of anyone else on this.   But, she’s pretty much sticking to it – namely that some of these regulations, like stem cells or gag rule, are no-brainers for repeal and are on the list.  Not sure we won’t those to be our first actions as president?

I think it makes sense for one of you to get on the phone to do some background with her and pushback the finality of all of this.    Also, if outside groups haven’t been consulted on “the list” – i.e. labor – we probably need something on the record that there’s no final decisions, only ideas. 

Let me know.  Thanks. 

Here’s her email: 

    It will say Obama intends to quickly reverse Bush policies on environment, drug safety, immigration and reproductive rights. We'll mention specifically, the Mexico city gag rule, conduct of immigration raids and the California "waiver" to regulate dioxide emissions. It will mention release of the CAP book on Wednesday with some description. Two sources have told me that transition teams have been quietly assembling this stuff for months -- without speaking to advocacy groups or anyone on the Hill. They have simply dug through public record. In other words, even though the groups are just now drawing up their wish lists, team Obama is actually far ahead.