Subject: Re: Tom Steyer
From: Dennis Cheng <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Cc: Robby Mook <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:44:47 -0400

My suggestion would be that we tell Tom we really need his help with the hard $ during the primary election - perhaps he focuses on us exclusively until end of 2015, then re-evaluate and he could switch over to non-federal side after that.

> On Apr 6, 2015, at 1:14 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> Don't think we need to give him a title now, but if we want him to set up a Chinese wall for Next Gen with him on the campaign side, somebody should tell him why and what we expect him to do. Otherwise he'll concentrate on Next Gen which he thinks is working hard for the result.
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>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 12:54 PM, Dennis Cheng <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>> Do you think he needs to have title to work hard for campaign? Given that we aren't giving titles to anyone else right now
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>>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 12:53 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>>> He was in China with me. Don't think he has made a final call. Depends on whether we would give him something official, like California co-chair. He was prepared to fund NextGen Action and leave it to Ted and Josh to run and stay on the hard $ side. I think if we don't make a move and ask him to do something specific, he'll stay in the NextGen world.
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>>>> On Apr 6, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Dennis Cheng <[email-masked]> wrote:
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>>>> Have you guys heard from him or his team about his plans to be helpful?