Subject: update on a few things
From: "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Juliana Gendelman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:16:31 -0500

Just wanted to fill you in on a few things:

1)      Harrison Wellford is working on memos both on burrowing-in and
the various WH councils that could be reduced.

2)      White House and GSA have set up a meeting for 11 a.m. tomorrow
to discuss IT/personnel issues.  Cassandra, our IT person, and I are
attending.  I flag this simply because the McCain campaign will be
sending representatives, so this will be our first sit-down with them.

3)      I've been gathering a list of people who might need security
clearances before Election Day.  Will pass that along to you when we've
heard back from everyone, so you can pass it to the White House.

4)      I just spoke with Nate Tamarin, who does the campaign's outreach
to unions.  The AFL-CIO has been contacted by DOL about participating in
some kind of transition planning, so the union is now asking what we're
doing.  Nate is concerned that if they find out how far along we are and
that we haven't consulted them, they will not be happy.  I told Nate at
this point we haven't talked to any of the core constituencies in the
party.  I wanted to flag this since it's possible the AFL will call you.

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Chris Lu

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(312) 505-4864 (cell)