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I find this terribly annoying, and one of the reasons I’m glad to have pulled out of DC. This sort of stuff makes me crazy.

Joshua Alcorn
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josh@beaubiden.com


On Feb 25, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Hunter Biden <hbiden@rosemontseneca.com> wrote:

> I don't understand--- how is it that Messina is allowed to take the entire infrastructure of OFA (does it include email lists etc...) and make it his own and co-locate that with Priorities USA and his for profit lobbying/ advocacy business? And how is it legal that he can then use those organizations infrastructures and lists and contacts and staff (even if its only implicit) to bolster the value of his lobbying/ advocacy shop for groups like the American Gaming Association.
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> Can anyone explain? What right does he have to take Obama For America rename it Organizing For America and utilize it's proprietary targeting tools and personnel to make money representing corporate interests? Isn't this a huge slap in the face of every Obama donor and volunteer who built OFA for the exact purpose of ending this "revolving door" bullshit. How is this story not titled Obama Campaign Manager and former WH assistant to the President sells out on everything this Administration supposedly stood for.
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> THE CONSIGLIERE - "The Democrats' would-be Karl Rove," by Kenneth P. Vogel and Maggie Haberman:"Jim Messina, the former campaign manager to President Obama who spent two decades in politics out of the public eye, is increasingly stepping out from the shadows ... Messina is moving aggressively to capitalize on his newfound fame and status as the maestro who ran a masterful reelection campaign for a president mired in a slumping economy. He's building a political fiefdom through his deep ties to rich Democrats and a nexus of big-money operations including ... Organizing for Action, whose major donors Messina [the group's chair] is hosting in his office Monday and whom the president will address Tuesday, and Priorities USA, the pro-Obama turned pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC. He's grabbing clients around the world[, and] speeches at roughly $50,000 a pop to ... the American Petroleum Institute and foreign groups like the government of the United Arab Emirate of Sharjah ...
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> "It's the first time that Messina, 44 , ... is making serious money. He appears to be following a path paved by George W. Bush's political guru, Karl Rove, who turned his master strategist role into a vaunted brand and created a shadow version of the Republican Party ... 'It's a lot to put on someone's shoulders, but we need a Karl Rove-type figure, and Messina has a large Rolodex. Or iPad,' said Donna Brazile, who chose a more conventional path after running Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign ... Messina - like Rove before him - has gravitated away from the party and campaign system in which he cut his teeth toward the unlimited-money outside infrastructure that reshaped politics after ... Citizens United ...
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> "Recently, Messina began quietly backing away from the inside system, last month ending a $15,000-a-month consulting agreement with the [DNC]. The move came as he assumed [chairmanship] of the pro-Clinton Priorities USA ... [A close source said] Messina was also preparing to end a $7,000-a-month contract with Obama's still-idling presidential campaign because he had mostly finished the work of winding it down. ... His allies ... point to a thorough vetting process involving two top power lawyers he's paying to screen and negotiate his deals - Obama attorney Bob Bauer and leading Washington deal maker Bob Barnett - and also say he clears anything potentially politically problematic with the White House. ...
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> "The Messina Group, a consulting firm he started last year, has been growing to accommodate its founder's expanding corporate, nonprofit and political portfolios, becoming something of a hub between the disparate arms of Messina Inc. The American Gaming Association last month signed the firm to assist in its push to build support for online gambling. ... Priorities and OFA recently moved into the firm's downtown Washington offices, which is set to host a meeting and cocktail reception Monday afternoon for OFA's top staff and donors."http://goo.gl/8AKxE9
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> R. Hunter Biden
> Rosemont Seneca Partners
> Washington D.C.
> 202-333-1880
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