Subject: Robby Mook
From: Brent Budowsky <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:46:39 -0400

Some advice: Robby Mook should not be on television denying HRC has a trust
problem in polls.  She does.  Everyone knows it.  He (and others) can simply not
directly answer that question and say that as her campaign evolves, as her specific
positions are announced, she will become the most trusted candidate in the race.

Begala does the same thing and it does not help her, it hurts her.  To deny there
is a trust issue when everyone knows there is a trust issue only increases the trust
problem!  And to those who sincerely want to support her, and those who are
persuadable to support her, but who do have trust reservations it is insulting to
their sincere views to deny those sincerely held views exist.

Obviously, when a candidate gives speeches to banks for pay and then denounces
those banks only weeks after those speeches finally stopped....it raises an issue.
She can address the issue in various ways, which involve policies such as Glass
Steagall....but to deny the issue exists only makes it worse, not better....

FYI I am soon going to write that Bernie has a chance to win the Iowa caucus, better it
be framed by a friend like me, I think it is true, and its always better to tell the
truth....denying the trust issue is a losing proposition if our goal is to eliminate
the trust issue....I would either admit it, or transcend it by saying her trust numbers
will be sky high as the campaign unfolds....but to deny it is a losing proposition that
makes it worse....

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