Subject: RE: connectivity
From: "Chris Lu" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:42:19 -0500

Sure thing.  I'll put everything in a longer email to you by COB today.
 
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Chris Lu
Obama for America
312-505-4864 (cell)

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From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Wed 7/23/2008 6:40 AM
To: Chris Lu
Subject: Re: connectivity

Chris,
We blew an engine on take off from Kigali. I now don't arrive back in
to the states until Thursday afternoon. I'll try to call from the
road, but I'm travelling thru Ethiopia so the chances of connecting
seem remote. Will you think about what we need to accomplish on Friday
on the call and what paper we'll need and I'll ck in when I hit the
ground Thursday.
John

On 7/21/08, Chris Lu <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Hope you're having a good trip.  Just wanted to give you an update on a few things:
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> 1) We had a good conference call on Friday.  All of the board members are instructed to turn in mission statements for their working group, as well as proposed working group leaders, by Wednesday.  I'll compile them and discuss with you other names of working group leaders that we want to throw into the mix.
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> 2) I told the board about the fundraising goal of $25,000 each.  So far, I've only heard back from Valerie, and she has a commitments for $30,000.
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> 3) Everyone is fine with meeting in Chicago on August 1.  The preference was the afternoon, so I've asked Adam to look for a place to hold the meeting.
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> 4) The August 11 date was problematic for some people, so some people suggested August 8.  Adam is checking to see whether that's a better day for more people.  Don't know if that works for you or not.
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> 5) Obama isn't available either August 1 or August 11 even just to call in (so says our scheduler).  If you think it's critical that he participate for some amount of time, I can press harder or we can consider other dates for the meetings.  My initial instinct was not to press it, since it's more important that we get time later in the summer/fall.
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> 6) I will check with Bob Bauer to make sure we're on target for starting the trust on August 1.  We're also trying to nail down the office space situation with Jim Messina.
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From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Sun 7/20/2008 11:25 PM
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: Chris Lu
> Subject: connectivity
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> You may have gotten this message before, but i think it did ot go thru, I can't pull down my CAP email here. Gmail works. if you need to get me anything, send it to [email-masked]
> Pete, can you ask Anna to send any phone messages there as well.