Subject: RE: Needy Latinos and 1 easy call.
From: Bonnie Rubin <[email-masked]>
To: H <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Cc: Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>, Amanda Renteria <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:17:38 -0400

I will work on scheduling these now and send the confirmed list once set.

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From: H [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2015 1:14 PM
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Cc: Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>; Amanda Renteria
<[email-masked]>; Bonnie Rubin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Needy Latinos and 1 easy call.

Adding Bonnie to set calls for tomorrow morning btw 9-12 if possible.
FYI I tried Hodges and vm was full.

> On Aug 21, 2015, at 12:01 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
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> A few calls you might consider making:
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> 1) Fedrico Pena. Ken Salazar who has been an absolute trooper really
wants to get Fedrico Pena on board. I talked to Pena early, before March
and he hemmed and hawed. Ken had lunch with him early this week and
reports the following, he's close to committing but carrying some baggage.
Fed never said this to me but he confided to Ken that his Cabinet stints
ripped up his family, he gave everything to the cause and no time to his
family, he went through a messy divorce in the late 90's and was left
really down and felt like no one reached out to him then so he felt pretty
cut off from Clinton World. In 07, the only candidate that asked for his
support was Obama, so he endorsed. (by the way, not sure any of this is
factually accurate, but this is how he is feeling). His life now revolves
around his new wife, Cindy, who is a supporter of yours and came to the
fundraiser at the Chambers house. He kind of wants to be with you, but
this stuff is still grinding on him. Ken suggests a call to him and was
very explicit about making the following four points:
> 1) you really enjoyed seeing Cindy at the   Chambers event and
appreciate her support.
> 2) ask him how he's been doing
> 3) ask about his views on the race and what she should be doing in
Colorado
> 4) ask that he consider publicly supporting you.
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> On balance, I recommend making this call as much because it's important
to Ken who has been great.
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> Pena's cell:  303-294-1824
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> 2) Bill Richardson. I had heard that you were upset that I encouraged a
call between WJC and Richardson to bury the hatchet. I did that at the
request of Jose Villarreal who pushed me and made the point that
Richardson is still on TV a lot, especially on Univision and Telemundo and
not withstanding the fact that he can be a dick, it was worth getting him
in a good place. He had a good conversation with the President and has
been good in his interviews since. I have pressed Bill, but I think it
will take a call from you to get a formal endorsement. He's on Meet the
Press on Sunday. Probably worth a quick call to ask him to stay stout and
publicly endorse, but if it's too galling, don't bother.
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> Richardson's cell:  505-699-4862
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> 3) Governor Jim Hodges. I just spent a couple days in South Carolina and
did an event with him and Steve Benjamin where he endorsed. He was really
good and I think it sent a strong signal in South Carolina, following Dick
Reilly's endorsement, that the support there is strong broad and
determined.  He and his wife  Rachel also co hosted a successful
fundraiser with Don and Carol Fowler and Ben and Sydney Rex that I
attended. Worth a quick call to Jim to thank him and Rachel for their
support.
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> Hodges cell: 803-315-0955
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