Subject: RE: DRAFT launch statement for progressive media
From: "Debbie Fine" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:10:48 -0500

got it.  thx.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Wed 2/20/2008 10:08 PM
To: Debbie Fine
Subject: Re: DRAFT launch statement for progressive media
 
No you're right to matzzie

On 2/20/08, Debbie Fine <[email-masked]> wrote:
> i think you meant to send this to mattzie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Podesta [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Wed 2/20/2008 8:45 PM
> To: Debbie Fine
> Subject: Re: DRAFT launch statement for progressive media
>
> who is on the current list?
>
>
> On 2/20/08, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> 	views?
> 	---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 	From: Tom Matzzie <[email-masked]>
> 	Date: Feb 20, 2008 8:42 PM
> 	Subject: Re: DRAFT launch statement for progressive media
> 	
> 	To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
> 	
> 	
> 		I haven't moved on it yet. Legal approved it. Here is the latest.
> 	
> 	DRAFT launch statement
> 	
> 	PROGRESSIVE MEDIA
> 	
> 	Progressive Media will serve as a "one stop communications shop" for
> 	the progressive movement.  Progressive Media will coordinate and
> 	broadcast the work of America's leading progressive thinkers,
> 	organizers, partisans and institutions.  The goal of this effort is to
> 	make sure progressive voices are heard from Alaska to Arkansas in
> 	broadcast and cable TV, radio, print and on the Internet by providing
> 	new research, surrogates and experts on key issues: the economy,
> 	health care, war and foreign policy, energy, and accountability in
> 	government.  From economic reports, to analysis on the latest Right
> 	wing myths or polling data, Progressive Media will fact-check,
> 	amplify, house and coordinate the best work of progressives around the
> 	country and make this available to the media and the public.
> 	
> 	Through Progressive Media, during the 2008 election campaign we will
> 	focus on showing the public where John McCain stands on key issues
> 	facing America and the world. After the election, we will operate as a
> 	part of the permanent progressive infrastructure.
> 	
> 	
> 	
> 	On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 8:37 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
> 	> where does this stand?
> 	>
> 	>
> 	>
> 	>
> 	> On 2/19/08, Tom Matzzie <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 	> > EPI and Gene Sperling. I don't want to get into the inter-Party
> 	> > warfare on some issues like trade. Most important thing is we need
> 	> > people who are already committed to doing work like this. We'll move
> 	> > any really hard stuff through another vehicle. This is just to give
> 	> > the day-to-day pushback some legitimacy.
> 	> >
> 	> > On Feb 19, 2008 5:57 PM, Susan McCue <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > > I hear u.  btw, would def have rand beers with nat'l security/iraq
> being
> 	> a
> 	> > > key focus.  who's the economic expert?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  ________________________________
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > > From: Begala, Paul [mailto:[email-masked]]
> 	> > >  Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:37 PM
> 	> > >  To: [email-masked]; [email-masked]; [email-masked]
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Cc: [email-masked]; [email-masked];
> 	> > > [email-masked]
> 	> > >  Subject: Re: DRAFT launch statement for progressive media
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > > President of DLC. Unlikely to be helpful. Very likely to undercut us
> if
> 	> > > things get hairy. I love Harold, but let's not put him in a position
> in
> 	> > > which he might be taking heat.
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  ----- Original Message -----
> 	> > >  From: Susan McCue <[email-masked]>
> 	> > >  To: Begala, Paul; [email-masked] <[email-masked]>;
> 	> [email-masked]
> 	> > > <[email-masked]>
> 	> > >  Cc: [email-masked] <[email-masked]>; [email-masked]
> 	> > > <[email-masked]>; [email-masked]
> 	> > > <[email-masked]>
> 	> > >  Sent: Tue Feb 19 17:31:30 2008
> 	> > >  Subject: RE: DRAFT launch statement for progressive media
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Tom - can u run the statement by Mark Elias in addition to sandler?
> 	> How
> 	> > > about Harold Ford Jr?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  ________________________________
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  From: Begala, Paul [mailto:[email-masked]]
> 	> > >  Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 3:09 PM
> 	> > >  To: [email-masked]; [email-masked]; [email-masked]
> 	> > >  Cc: [email-masked]; [email-masked];
> 	> > > [email-masked]
> 	> > >  Subject: Re: DRAFT launch statement for progressive media
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Statement looks good - so long as the lawyers approve.
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  I would reach out to Obama supporters. Let me nominate Jamal
> Simmons.
> 	> He's
> 	> > > young (to me) Af-Am and way smart. He worked in the Clinton White
> House
> 	> and
> 	> > > now does commentary with me on CNN.
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Other prominent African-Americans should be courted, like Donna
> 	> Brazile.
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  How 'bout Dee Dee Myers?  Not African-American, but rumored to be a
> 	> woman.
> 	> > > Knows the media as well as anyone.
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Hispanics, anyone?  Can we ask Maria Echaveste but not Chris Edley?
> 	> (I'm
> 	> > > kinda pissed at Chris for telling the NY Times that the Clinton Admin
> 	> had a
> 	> > > mixed record on civil rights. Funny, he didn't say that when he was
> in
> 	> the
> 	> > > Clinton Admin).
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  I will keep thinking.
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  ----- Original Message -----
> 	> > >  From: [email-masked] <[email-masked]>
> 	> > >  To: [email-masked] <[email-masked]>; susan
> 	> > > <[email-masked]>; Begala, Paul
> 	> > >  Cc: Stan Greenberg <[email-masked]>; Anna Greenberg
> 	> > > <[email-masked]>; Tara McGuinness
> 	> <[email-masked]>
> 	> > >  Sent: Tue Feb 19 12:36:51 2008
> 	> > >  Subject: DRAFT launch statement for progressive media
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  could go with a short or long list of founders. it might be better
> to
> 	> > >  do it with 10-12 people instead of 50. feedback needed.
> 	> > >
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  DRAFT launch statement
> 	> > >  PROGRESSIVE MEDIA
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Progressive Media will serve as a communications and messaging nerve
> 	> > >  center for the progressive movement. We will create a robust echo
> 	> > >  chamber with messaging that spans from independent groups, to
> 	> > >  progressive partisans, to grassroots organizers, to the netroots. We
> 	> > >  will align messaging across broadcast and cable TV, radio, print,
> 	> > >  Internet, single-issue and advocacy organizations, progressive
> media,
> 	> > >  surrogates and new media.  Through Progressive Media, during the
> 2008
> 	> > >  election campaign we will focus on showing the public where John
> 	> > >  McCain stands on key issues facing America and the world. We seek to
> 	> > >  become a part of the permanent progressive infrastructure to last
> 	> > >  beyond the 2008 election. Breaking through the clutter of the modern
> 	> > >  media environment with a progressive message requires repetition of
> 	> > >  common themes from different sources organized by a central
> 	> > >  apparatus--that is the organizing task of Progressive Media.
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Founders List (sample--need people outside the campaigns)
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Tom Matzzie
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Paul Begala
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Susan McCue
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Stan Greenberg
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  John Podesta
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Anna Greenberg
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Wes Boyd
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Brad Woodhouse
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Eli Pariser
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  David Brock
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Jon Soltz
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Rand Beers?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Arianna Huffington?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Will Robinson?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  David Bennehaum?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Rand Beers?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Larry Mishel?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Robert Borosage?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  Union folks?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  enviro folks?
> 	> > >
> 	> > >  who else? bloggers?
> 	> >
> 	>
> 	>
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