Subject: a few thoughts for Friday's call
From: "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:48:33 -0500

A couple agenda items that might be worth discussing:

n  A report from Mark and Ted about what they're thinking about for VP
team.

n  I can give everyone an update on progress on some operations issues,
specifically the website and personnel database (our WH meeting got
pushed until tomorrow at noon).  I also want to open up a separate
discussion on whether we really need the second D.C. space (the
operations working group is recommending no) and perhaps discuss how big
our Chicago presence is going to be.  This affects not only space, but
how we apportion staff.  We had a good conversation with Alexis today,
and she said if Obama stays in Chicago and that's where we announce
nominations, then that's where the press will be.  And presumably we're
going to need a fair amount of staff to manage the press and deal with
Obama.  That's significantly larger than the space we're envisioning for
Chicago and might necessitate a change in our planning.  

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Chris Lu

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