Subject: Re: hiring moves/operations update
From: "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:40:42 -0500

Neera and I spoke about him this week, and he's on my list of people to call before the week is out. 

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From: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
To: Chris Lu
Sent: Thu Aug 07 20:36:19 2008
Subject: Re: hiring moves/operations update

Did you ever talk to jake sullivan?

On 8/7/08, Chris Lu <[email-masked]> wrote:
> John - Just wanted to give you a heads-up on some of the hiring that
> I've done this week.
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> Cassandra, Melody, and I are all on payroll now.  I've also hired two
> research assistants:  Blake Roberts and Mike Mongan.  Blake is a Harvard
> Law School graduate, 4th Circuit clerk, and has been volunteering for
> the campaign policy staff.  Mike just finished clerking for Justice
> Souter.  Both of them are going to start cataloguing policy promises,
> first the big four (energy, health care, economy, and national security)
> and then work their way through the other ones.  I also am looking at a
> woman, Desiree Pipkins, who is the research director at the NAACP Legal
> Defense Fund.  Cassandra recommended her.
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> I've talked to Ryan Cunningham, who was Jim Johnson's assistant in 2004,
> to come on in a mid- level role.  Don and Melody could use him on the
> agency team, and Ryan handles energy issues for Glover Park, so he could
> staff that policy group, as well as pitch in on economy and national
> security (if necessary).  There are also a couple of projects that cut
> across different working groups like the personnel database and website
> that could use some coordination.  And he could help me manage things in
> general.
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> I've run the budget numbers, and we're well within our $300K budget
> (we're actually at about $275K), even with a lot of padding on the
> travel budget.  The campaign is picking up our lease costs which has
> freed up a good amount of money.
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> On the operations front, we've convened the working group with Betsy
> Myers, Brad Kiley, and Katy Kale (Sherrod Brown's office manager).  Brad
> and Katy are coming with me tomorrow to meet with GSA.
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