Subject: RE: Transition board call/meeting
From: "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>
To: "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], "Valerie Jarrett" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], "Pete Rouse" <[email-masked]>, "Melody Barnes" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], "Ted Kaufman" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], "Jayne Thomisee" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], "Katie Johnson" <[email-masked]>, "Elizabeth Utrup" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:50:33 -0600

Message to the Transition Board from Mike Froman and Jim Messina:

 

We wanted to touch base regarding referrals of candidates for positions in the Obama-Biden Administration each of us will continue to receive over the coming weeks.

As you know, we have set up an on-line application that all potential candidates must fill out.  The general public will access this application through www.change.gov <http://www.change.gov/> , and you should direct general inquiries to this website.  

However, if a potential candidate has come recommended to you (e.g., by a member of Congress or an important stakeholder group) or if there is a candidate who has put him or herself forward whom you recommend, we would like to flag that candidate as "recommended" in our system.  

Please forward these recommendations to [email-masked] and we will send out a personalized link to the application that will ensure the candidate's information is quickly processed.  If at all possible, please indicate whether you are simply forwarding the name or whether this is a person whom you are personally recommending and feel strongly about.  If it is someone you are personally recommending, please also copy the two of us ([email-masked], [email-masked]) so that we can track their status.  Note that [email-masked] is soley for recommendations from this group; please do not give this address to anyone else.

We have a small team of people who are responsible for managing relations with key stakeholders:  campaign/Senate staff, NFC/supporters, members of Congress, other elected officials, labor and key constituency groups.  They will follow up, as appropriate, depending on where the recommendation comes from.

The best case is one in which whoever sends you the name also includes a valid email address for the prospective candidate so that we can send the candidate a personalized link to apply.  If the recommender did not include a valid email for the candidate, please request this information if it's appropriate to do so.  If not, please just forward the candidate's name to [email-masked] and instruct the recommender to encourage the candidate to go to www.change.gov <http://www.change.gov/>  to fill out an application.  We will flag the name in the system so that it will recognize the application as a recommended one when received.

Thank you for your patience.  If you have any questions, please let us know.

 

Mike Froman                                                                           Jim Messina

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From: Chris Lu
Sent: Thu 11/13/2008 10:47 AM
To: Chris Lu; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; Valerie Jarrett; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; Pete Rouse; Melody Barnes; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]; Ted Kaufman
Cc: [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; Jayne Thomisee; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; [email-masked]'; Katie Johnson; Elizabeth Utrup; [email-masked]; [email-masked]; [email-masked]
Subject: Transition board call/meeting

We're going to do a board call tomorrow (Friday) at 3 p.m. Eastern.  For those of you in D.C., we'll meet in 8015.  I don't think the call will go longer than 45 minutes.
 
Here's the call-in number:
 
Leader Name

Toll Free Number

Leader Pin

Toll Number

Participant Pin

Assigned 

PTT(21)

866-783-8941

6738177

203-277-7551

6041148

Chris Lu