Neena Tanden and Podesta discussing how people aren’t showing enthusiasm for HRC on the stump:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/27099
From:ntanden@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2015-05-28 12:04
Subject: Re:
Reporters definitely buzzing. But nothing that an event or two cant fix
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On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Neera Tanden ntanden@gmail.com wrote:
Lol
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On Thursday, May 28, 2015, John Podesta john.podesta@gmail.com wrote:
Closed but for Glenn Thrush.
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On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Neera Tanden ntanden@gmail.com wrote:
Stories on South Carolina Including empty seats at event and closed office
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On Thursday, May 28, 2015, John Podesta john.podesta@gmail.com wrote:
Is that in response to something specific? Or just general observation.
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On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Neera Tanden ntanden@gmail.com wrote:
That excitement thing you were worried about does seem to be a problem. She does need to rev it up.
(this thread just got taken off of Breaking News so I don’t know if adding pertinent new emails from today here will be seen - but...)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/28660
From: Bansal, Preeta D (NYC) Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 11:01 PM
To: Froman, Michael B Cc: ‘Onek, Matthew’
Subject: Asian American Candidates, Muslim American Candidates
Here are the compiled lists of Asian American and Muslim American candidates for top Administration jobs, sub-cabinet jobs, and outside boards/agencies/policy committees. A couple things to note about the list of Muslim American candidates:
1) In the candidates for top jobs, I excluded those with some Arab American background but who are not Muslim (e.g., George Mitchell). Many Lebanese Americans, for example, are Christian. In the last list (of outside boards/commissions), most who are listed appear to be Muslim American, except that a handful (where noted) may be Arab American but of uncertain religion (esp. Christian).
2) There is only one candidate I thought was a viable one for a Secretary-level job among the Muslim Americans. That said, on both lists, there are some very senior people listed in the last category (for outside boards/commissions) who conceivably could be considered for top jobs. The very senior people I put on the last list tended not to be terribly involved in politics or policy, or in the case of some Asian Americans, had already served in the Clinton and even Carter Administrations and so I thought we should seek new talent. But there’s no magic to some of the placements. I think the lists are fairly exhaustive, but some of the people may be moved to other categories.
3) High-profile Muslim Americans tend to be the subject of a fair amount of blogger criticism, and so the individuals on this list would need to be ESPECIALLY carefully vetted. I suspect some of the people I list would not survive such a vet — but I do personally know, at least in part, virtually all of the candidates in the 1st two categories (but I know very few of those listed for outside boards/commissions).
4) I listed the elected Muslim American democratic officials at the end of the second category, but for various reasons, I didn’t think any of them would necessarily be suitable for an Administration appointment. Nevertheless, I wanted to flag them for you in case you wanted to evaluate them further.
DOJ list will be coming in the next two days. Judges and USAttorneys will still take about 10 days.
Let me know if the latter are needed sooner.
Preeta D. Bansal Partner Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP