Subject: RE: REVISED DRAFT: Breaking every barrier speech
From: "Craig T. Smith" <[email-masked]>
To: "'LaDavia Drane'" <[email-masked]>, "'Megan Rooney'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Speech Drafts'" <[email-masked]>, "'Brynne Craig'" <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:48:53 -0500
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Had Jake meet with a group of Caribbean leaders today for an hour and planning to do a Caribbean fundraiser with WJC later in the month so need to make sure whatever we got he has.  Still a ways off.

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From: LaDavia Drane [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 1:36 AM
To: Megan Rooney <[email-masked]>
Cc: Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>; Brynne Craig <[email-masked]>; Craig Smith <[email-masked]>; [email-masked]
Subject: Re: REVISED DRAFT: Breaking every barrier speech

Just thought of one more thing, please take the opp in the speech to address the African and Carribean community, especially since she will be in NYC. This will go such a long way. Policy just completed a one pager for the community. Haitians need to hear from us especially.

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> On Feb 16, 2016, at 12:43 AM, Megan Rooney <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> Thank you so much for your comments today.  We had a productive conversation with the Secretary this evening who wanted to see more in here about solutions that will actually impact people's lives.  I think we've delivered that while slimming down the policy section overall.
>
> We changed the top so this doesn't start with criminal justice.  She suggested we start with Flint... but first we put in Harlem so it's not negative right off the bat.
>
> She also asked that we say positive things about all that was accomplished in the 90s.  So we did that, while also adding a short paragraph (3 sentences) about mistakes in the 90s too.  Please be sure to take a look at that.
>
> The speech is at 3pm tomorrow so please get edits to us asap.
>
> Thank you!
> Megan + Dan
> <2016-02-16 DRAFT remarks on breaking down barriers 1230am.docx>