Subject: Re: Clip: NYPost | The hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton’s unpaid campaign internships
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: Gary Gensler <[email-masked]>
Cc: Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Beth Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:57:53 -0700

Thanks, Gary.  Yes, I know we have lots of interns - which is terrific!  I
just want to be sure that we plan ahead for next summer and see if we can
get some interns in who stipends to provide economic diversity in our
intern program.  Happy to help make it happen if it is possible!

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Gary Gensler <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> Ann,
> Looping in Beth as well.  We had a program with over 70 interns this
> summer and have a smaller group planned for the Fall.
> Gary
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Ann O'Leary <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>> Robby, John & Gary -
>>
>> This has come up before - and I worry that we are excluding low-income,
>> smart hard-working college students from getting an experience interning on
>> the campaign.  I would be happy to help fundraise for some type of summer
>> stipend for next summer so we can offer this opportunity to young people
>> with little to very modest means.
>>
>> Possible?
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Rob Flaherty <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 10:41 AM
>> Subject: Clip: NYPost | The hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton’s unpaid
>> campaign internships
>> To: Clips <[email-masked]>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://nypost.com/2015/08/17/hillary-clintons-intern-al-hypocrisy/
>>
>> The hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton’s unpaid campaign internships
>>
>> Hillary Clinton's campaign staff pack up orders at the Ready for Hillary
>> Super Pac store in Arlington, Va. Photo: AP
>>
>> Hillary Clinton is offering young people an incredible opportunity — to
>> work for her campaign for . . . nothing. Nada. Zero.
>>
>> On Sunday, her campaign tweeted: “Interning at #Hillary2016 HQ in NYC:
>> Free coffee, great views, the chance to make history.”
>>
>> We’re fine with it: As we’ve long noted, unpaid internships let kids gain
>> the experience, skills and contacts to land a paying gig — or to realize
>> the industry’s not for them.
>>
>> But Clinton is on record to the contrary. “Businesses have taken
>> advantage of unpaid internships to an extent that it is blocking the
>> opportunities for young people to move on into paid employment,” she
>> lectured at UCLA in 2013. “More businesses need to move their so-called
>> interns to employees.”
>>
>> One more problem: Clinton’s also been grandstanding about how kids can’t
>> pay for college. Her $350 billion plan envisions students working 10 (paid)
>> hours a week to make college “available to everyone willing to work for it.”
>>
>> Hey, this is a woman who thinks the rules for everyone else — whether on
>> how charities should work, or on the proper handling of classified
>> information — don’t apply to her.
>>
>> Why be surprised that she won’t even honor her own views on fair pay?
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
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>> Ann O'Leary
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>> Hillary for America
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Ann O'Leary
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Hillary for America
Cell: 510-717-5518