Subject: Fwd: Jeanne Lambrew
From: "Cassandra Butts" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>, "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:22:31 -0400

I'm happy to share more on this if it would be beneficial. But my
bottom-line view is that while there is tension, which I've tried to defuse,
Jeanne and Chris E. are capable of working together in the post-election
transition and producing the policy direction that is needed.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christopher Edley <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Subject: Jeanne Lambrew
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Cassandra Butts <
[email-masked]>, Chris Lu <[email-masked]>

John -- A candid memo, if I may.  As Cassandra knows, I feel a bit of
tension with Jeanne in the shaping of "the" decision memo and workplan.  I
haven't read the latest so-called "final" draft, but will try to do so
tonight.  The fact that she sent it directly to you and Chris Lu gives me
pause. (My education and immigration team leaders would not do that.)  Much
of this, of course, is traceable to how the membership of the health team
came about.  (Water under the bridge.)  Part of it is also that I've tried
to be exceptionally light-handed given your relationships and Daschle's
stature.  Perhaps you instructed Jeanne to proceed this way, although that
would be uncharacteristic of you.  I assume not.

But, until you instruct otherwise, I'm going to pretend that I'm still
responsible for ensuring quality control, including fidelity to Barack's
agenda/interests.

This is getting more difficult, because it doesn't at all seem that the
needed Hill consultations have taken place.  More after I go through the
memo carefully.  Ciao.
-- 
(personal email)
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Professor and Dean
UC Berkeley Law School