Subject: Re: John and Roy
From: "Bill de Blasio" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:15:07 +0000

The team will be leaving a lot of money on the table if they see it that way... Anyway, I'd ready to engage this in any way you'd like

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From: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:02:39 
To: [email-masked]<[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: John and Roy

I think it's a good idea but think that our team will see it as a resource
diversion.  I don't really see it that way.

On Friday, March 18, 2016, Bill de Blasio <[email-masked]> wrote:

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> What do you think?
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> *From: * "Bill de Blasio" <[email-masked]
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> *Date: *Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:42:26 +0000
> *To: *John Podesta<[email-masked]
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> *Subject: *Re: Fwd: John and Roy
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>
> On first blush, I think it has A LOT of merit. It would give Bernie
> followers a way to connect that would then be a good gateway to getting
> them more comfortable with Hillary. We need to keep continuity with them.
> And the money will be left on the table otherwise. This really could help
> Hillary get a Dem Senate and help create the progressive counter-weight
> she'll need to move much of her program. I stand ready to help build this.
>
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> *From: * John Podesta <[email-masked]
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> *Date: *Thu, 17 Mar 2016 11:09:01 -0400
> *To: *Bill de Blasio<[email-masked]
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> *Subject: *Fwd: John and Roy
>
> What do you think of the People's PAC idea described below? Think it would
> work? I am sure our team would view it as competition and try to strangle
> it, but I think it might have merit.
>
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> Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016
> Subject: John and Roy
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>
> Please think about this and feel free to share it.  My column in The Hill
> today was about how Bernie and Hillary need to unite to defeat Trump was
> highlighted in bold at the center of the front page of the paper today.
>
> It is no secret that I support Hillary without profound enthusiasm and
> have spent months praising Bernie with huge enthusiasm.  I have a ton of
> credibility with Bernie, his senior staff and above all his grassroots and
> small donor base, who consider me the mainstream columnist who has given
> Bernie the most fair shake in the media.
>
> Now, I am beginning to cash in the chips by setting the stage carefully
> and tactfully for Bernie's people to gravitate to Hillary by convention
> time.  Most but not all of them will support Hillary, some will stay home,
> I worry about the younger people especially who do not view politics as we
> do.
>
> The next thing I am doing to suggest is an idea I slipped into the column
> today to get Bernie people thinking---for him to create a People's PAC to
> amass small donors to support liberal Democrats for the House and Senate in
> November.
>
> Bernie's small donor base has revolutionary potential.  $42 million in
> February alone.  Their natural tendency after the primaries will be to
> largely disperse.  Some, but not a huge number, will give to Hillary.
>
> The next thing I intend to propose is that Bernie, Elizabeth Warren and
> Bill de Blasio announce before the convention the People's PAC, raise a
> huge amount of money from small donors using the convention as a launching
> pad, to support liberal Dems in the House and Senate (and Hillary).
>
> The convention itself would be an ideal launching pad combining old and
> new media, television and social media, for fundraising and organizing.  A
> reasonable goal would be to raise from small donors $100 million to $200
> million which could help elect some very key liberals to the House and
> Senate.  That's a lot of dough to influence 8 key Senate races and 35 swing
> House races and would make a material difference in who controls Congress.
> The project would help fuse together the Clinton and Sanders people, and
> Democrats in the presidential and Congressional campaigns using the
> convention as an organizing and motivating vehicle.
>
> One of the reasons I made it a point to praise Podesta in my column today
> as a genuine progressive is not only that I believe it is true, but that I
> wanted to put my credibility as a progressive behind John's credibility.
> The Sanders insiders know this already, and I assume some of these
> conversations are privately going on now, but the Sanders grassroots know
> me well by now, since I was writing about Bernie long before others in the
> media would give Bernie the time of day.
>
> What I want to do is keep the Sanders grassroots and small donor movements
> in place and behind liberals running for Congress, rather than fading
> away.  Simply being the party that is not Trump alone is not nearly
> enough--we need to create a sense as conservatives have done that this is a
> movement for change which the People's PAC would help motivate and quantify
> with real money that can help us win Congress, without which a Democratic
> presidency will be a formula for frustration.
>
> If Republicans nominate Trump, we have a strong chance of regaining the
> Senate and winning enough House seats to be within reach of a working
> majority and long shot chance of control.
>
>
> http://thehill.com/opinion/brent-budowsky/273308-budowsky-hillary-bernie-must-unite-to-beat-trump
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>