Subject: Re: Happy Holidays
From: Dennis Cheng <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:47:28 -0500

Will track down

On Dec 22, 2015, at 3:46 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:

do we have a transcript of that?

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From: *Gary HIRSHBERG* <[email-masked]>
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Subject: Happy Holidays
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>

John, I finally got word on where the aforementioned comments were made. It
was at a fundraiser in Denver. That is not what she should be saying
anywhere, but Denver is an especially bad spot for that message due to the
number of well-heeled labeling supporters there.  It is clear that she does
not have a consistent message so I hope you can get through to her on this
with my suggestion from earlier today.  Again, I am happy to brief her or
anyone on the behind-the-scenes politics here.

Thanks,

*Gary Hirshberg Chairman, Stonyfield Farm*

*Chairman, Just Label It *

From:        John Podesta <[email-masked]
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To:        Gary Hirshberg <[email-masked]
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Date:        12/22/2015 11:31 AM
Subject:        Fwd: Happy Holidays
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This is what we found that she said most recently. Not exactly what you
want her to say, but  actually pretty good and not what your friend
suggested. This was at a Maryland fundraiser. Is that where he was?

QUESTION: Do you think people have a right to know what's in their food and
that GMO, genetically modified organisms, should be labeled?

 HILLARY CLINTON: I believe in two things. I believe in what the Department
of Agriculture is doing is to start with a voluntary labeling program
because that's all they can get through right now. That's all they can get
through, but they need to start it. And we need to tell food manufacturers,
through consumer and buyer pressure, to put more information on labels. And
people can do that.

 But the other thing, the thing I am worried about most right now is one of
these riders we were talking about, is to preempt states from imposing more
rules on what information people should be able to have. So our first order
is to stop that rider until we can actually try to let states do more and
give states the chance to lead the way. That's what I support. Thank you
all.

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From: *John Podesta* <[email-masked]*>
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Subject: Happy Holidays
To: Gary HIRSHBERG <[email-masked]*>

I hadn't seen your earlier email. I'll ck on this. Don't think it's
accurate, but let me ck.

On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, Gary HIRSHBERG <[email-masked]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[email-masked]');>> wrote:

Thanks and the same to you, John.  We are planning to host a Primary-eve
party in Concord for all of our out-of-town Hillary friends and supporters
so I hope I will see you there. We also have 4 empty bedrooms in the week
leading up to, and during the primary so let me know if you need a "base
camp".

And separately, did you see my email to you from a couple days ago?  If
not, I have appended it below.  With the defeat of the Dark Act in 2015,
this next year is going to be THE crucible year for getting this resolved,
so Hillary's support is very important and I honestly cannot imagine she
wants to take a position that is the opposite of what 90% of America's
mothers support.  Please, lets discuss this asap.

Hi john, I hope the anecdote below from one of the nation's most successful
and awarded advertising execs is not accurate, but if so, it is very
disappointing. We just won a staggering victory in keeping the "Dark Act"
out of the Omnibus and Tom Vilsack, Debbie Stabenow and I are organizing a
meeting with large food companies in January to try to hammer out a final
mandatory labeling solution. Hillary's publicly opposing this is both the
wrong policy position but also a direct breach of what she told me, namely
that she supports average citizens and moms having the right to know. I
have raised nearly $400K for her because I believed what she told me. If
that is not the case, I'd like the chance to speak to her.

Thanks, Gary