Subject: Re: RESENDING: Fwd: Movement 2.0 incorporation and fundraising
From: "Christopher Edley" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:35:49 -0600

Misunderstanding I suspect.

Can you and I please discuss before board discusses. If at all possible.

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On 8/24/08, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Let's discuss Monday. Obviously, some heartburn with the political crowd.
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> From: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:01:29 -0400
> Subject: Fw: FW: RESENDING: Fwd: Movement 2.0 incorporation andfundraising
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pete Rouse <[email-masked]>
> To: John Podesta
> Sent: Fri Aug 22 16:18:33 2008
> Subject: FW: FW: RESENDING: Fwd: Movement 2.0 incorporation andfundraising
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Tewes [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 2:18 PM
> To: Pete Rouse; [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: FW: RESENDING: Fwd: Movement 2.0 incorporation
> andfundraising
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> As both of you know, I have many concerns about this..... as a lover of
> "Party" I really don't like this.
>
> I think the decision needs to be made and discussed on "this vs. party"
> or "this and party".  The discussion should focus on - What is best for
> Barack Obama, his politics, his agenda and his future.
>
> If the first step is to move outside the party with your organization,
> the political ramifications and "future" ramifications need to be
> thought through.  Further, a discussion should be had of party over this
> - why and why not?
>
> Marching into this seems premature and secondly creating something
> before hand (before e-day) has appearance problems in my opinion.
>
> I would ask that we postpone any of this till after the convention and
> do a little gathering where we can discuss.  Please.
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>>>> "Pete Rouse" <[email-masked]> 8/22/2008 11:00 AM >>>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:48 AM
> To: Pete Rouse
> Subject: Fwd: RESENDING: Fwd: Movement 2.0 incorporation and fundraising
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> Can you forward to Hilldie and Tewes and see if they care whether this
> goes forward to a planning stage. Thx.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christopher Edley <[email-masked]>
> Date: Aug 21, 2008 5:02 PM
> Subject: RESENDING: Fwd: Movement 2.0 incorporation and fundraising
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: Chris Lu <[email-masked]>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Christopher Edley <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:34 PM
> Subject: Movement 2.0 incorporation and fundraising
> To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Chris Lu <[email-masked]>, Pete Rouse
> <[email-masked]>, Valerie Jarrett <[email-masked]>
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> John --
>
> After several conversations with counsel and with the campaign nerds,
> Mitch Kapor and Mark Alexander want to go ahead with creating the
> organization and using the attached as a "pitch" piece to raise funds.
>
> 1.  Note that what is contemplated here is separate from government,
> including the official transition. Per the Board's earlier discussion.
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> 2.  Are you willing to serve on the board?  Other board members can be
> added when it is appropriate for Barack to take time to focus on it.
> THERE WILL ALSO BE AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE of some sort.  Maybe Julius
> could co-chair that?  Note that folks from Bluie State Digital are not
> on the board because of conflict issues.
>
> 3.  Seems to me that this should get the Senator's sign off through
> your good offices.  I don't see any particular hurry about it, because
> if you are OK then we should go forward with raising some seed money
> and doing the incorporation right away. Meanwhile, the technical
> discussions about the software platform, etc., are moving forward
> quite well.  Campaign folks are joined at the hip with this effort.
> (Rospars, Slaby, others).
>
> GOOD TO GO?
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