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Hunter,

As you know I was in Beijing last week. I was there because the State
Legislative Leaders Foundation (SLLF) <http://www.sllf.org/> was sending an
advance team in preparation for a large program they will be putting on in
October that will hopefully include over 50 legislative leaders from over
25 different US States as well as their provincial counterparts in China.
Additionally, US and Chinese businesses will also be in attendance.

Henry is spearheading this initiative with SLLF in China so I spent the
last week with him. Henry is a big supporter of SLLF and he sees this
initiative as being of a major diplomatic significance to both the US and
China. He has spent a lot of the past year helping SLLF get an office set
up in China which, considering how busy Henry is with all his other
business, shows how important he views this SLLF initiative.

Henry and Steve Lakis (President of SLLF) asked me if I could help Steve
set up a meeting with you when Steve is in DC next. Steve wanted to ask
your advice on how to proceed on one aspect of setting up an SLLF office in
China.

Specifically, the US and Chinese government through their respective
foreign ministries laid a broad framework that allowed for the creation of
the US-China Governors Forum. The U.S.-China Governors Forum was set up by
the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Chinese People’s
Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. It serves as a platform
to promote peer-to-peer exchanges between U.S. state governors and Chinese
provincial party secretaries and governors on topics of mutual interest
such as trade, investment, energy and the environment. A Chinese province
or a U.S. state takes turns hosting the meeting with the first one convened
in Salt Lake City, Utah and the second one in Tianjin and Beijing. The
third one was scheduled to be held in California in November this year.

SLLF would like to set up a similar sort of arrangement but instead focus
on exchange between the state-level legislative branch of each country
rather than the executive branch. It is on this point specifically that
Steve Lakis (President of the SLLF) was wondering if he could just meet at
your DC office and discuss paths forward.

Just so you know the SLLF is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization
dedicated to professional development for current and future state
legislative leaders. Their constituency includes Speakers of the House,
Senate Presidents, Majority Leaders, Minority Leaders, and Pro Tempores.

So is there a chance you could sit down with Steve and give him some advice
on some of the issues that he and Henry are contending with? For your
reference I've attached an internal memo that SLLF created on this matter.

Let's you and I have a quick phone call so I can explain further. What is a
good time for me to give you a call?

Thanks,
Jimmy

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James J. Bulger
Chairman
Thornton Group LLC
14 Beacon Street, Suite 804A
Boston, MA 02108
Office tel: 617.248.9440


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James J. Bulger
Chairman
Thornton Group LLC
14 Beacon Street, Suite 804A
Boston, MA 02108
Office tel: 617.248.944