Subject: Fwd: TWEET: Sanders on Rahm Emanuel
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
Cc: Nikki Budzinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:43:40 -0800

Bernie is beating us up over Rahm's record on schools in Chicago. The
Chicago school system is overloaded with debt and likely to run out of cash
before the end of the school year. As a result, they are withholding their
pension contributions, and laying off teachers and support staff.

I reached out to Randi W and she suggested that she tweet something
tomorrow making clear that Rahm and Rauner have been bad for Chicago
schools and then HRC retweets.

That sounded like a toxic idea to me given Rahm's endorsement, but I don't
think this issue is going away.

We could: (a) have HRC say something more forceful about the state working
to help Chicago pay off debt so the schools can focus on teaching and
learning; (b) have Randi say something more mild and we could retweet. But
I do worry that short of going after Rahm, these options are not going to
be satisfactory. So the (c) option is to stay silent on it for now.

Thoughts?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kate Waters <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:46 PM
Subject: TWEET: Sanders on Rahm Emanuel
To: Clips <[email-masked]>

*Bernie Sanders* @BernieSanders
<https://twitter.com/BernieSanders>

I want to thank Rahm Emanuel for not endorsing me. I don’t want the
endorsement of a mayor shutting down schools and firing teachers.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/708481603815677952

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