Subject: Re: SEIU/home health care workers
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: Neera Tanden <[email-masked]>
Cc: Maya Harris <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, Amanda Renteria <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 09:45:30 -0400

Sounds good. Thanks for sharing your thinking. Keep us posted after the
meeting. Maya and Amanda Renteria are the points and I'll help on policy
front. Looping in Amanda so she is aware.

Ann O’Leary
Sent from my iPhone
(510) 717-5518 (cell)

On May 15, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Neera Tanden <[email-masked]> wrote:

I guess I don't understand your view here.  Home health is a lot of money.
SEIU generally tries to get more money into the sector. So they would
generally like big investments here.  Now they pushed hard for ltc in ACA
and it collapsed so they are chastised and they don't have a specific ask
at the moment.  But as with almost any interest group, there's a risk of
some kind of big ask.  I assumed the more you keep their requests indirect
the better you are.  So I kind of thought this was optimal for you.
Therefore I'm not understanding why you want to meet with them even down
the road when they are not asking.

I think Mary Kay is basically trying to limit the expectations of this side
of her house without ignoring them. Like if they push me I can obviously be
more separate.

Anyway, perhaps I'm overthinking it but those were my assumptions.

On Friday, May 15, 2015, Ann O'Leary <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Oh no - go ahead and do it. Maya can meet with them later. You can tell us
> what they say first. Thanks!
>
>
> Ann O’Leary
> Sent from my iPhone
> (510) 717-5518 (cell)
>
> On May 15, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Neera Tanden <[email-masked]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[email-masked]');>> wrote:
>
> They aren't asking for a campaign person.  But I'll tell them to go to the
> campaign person and take myself out of it.
>
> On Friday, May 15, 2015, Ann O'Leary <[email-masked]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[email-masked]');>> wrote:
>
>> Would be good for Maya to do it with Neera in my opinion - just so we
>> directly are connected and hear their asks.
>>
>>
>> Ann O’Leary
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> (510) 717-5518 (cell)
>>
>> > On May 15, 2015, at 8:00 AM, Maya Harris <[email-masked]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > And me. Thanks for checking in.
>> >
>> >> On May 15, 2015, at 7:23 AM, Jake Sullivan <
>> [email-masked]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> No problem from my end.  I think it makes sense.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> On May 15, 2015, at 12:01 AM, Neera Tanden <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> John, Jake, Maya,
>> >>>
>> >>> I saw Mary Kay Henry tonight and as John knows, she's trying to
>> organize her union to support Hillary without a lot of sturm and drang.
>> This event next week, as well as other union meetings are part of that.
>> One thing she wants to do is have her home health care leadership meet with
>> me to discuss importance of home health care for the next few years.  They
>> don't have a specific ask, but they just want to be raised.  Her staff
>> asked me to do it and I said yes weeks ago; as John knows, we have a robust
>> partnership with them.  But tonight she told me that she's looking at me
>> for this meeting as both president of CAP and the role that plays in the
>> progressive infrastructure as well as a Hillary person, which I wasn't
>> aware of before.  She's seeing this as one of the steps (although I assume
>> a minor one) to get the union where it needs to be.
>> >>>
>> >>> They may tweet that they are doing this meeting w/ me, but they'll
>> use my normal title -  seems to me she's likely to spin it a bit internally
>> though.
>> >>>
>> >>> So I wanted to make sure I flagged this for you and that you guys are
>> ok with me proceeding.
>> >>>
>> >>> Let me know and thanks!
>> >>>
>> >>> Neera
>> >>>
>> >>>
>>
>