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Hunter:


I hope this finds you doing well and greetings from London—I’m on a long
layover here with my fiancée on the way back from an extraordinary Truman
Project delegation to Turkey.


I wanted to connect with you about an upcoming event in D.C. I’ve been
getting increasingly alarmed about the sluggish and scattered nature of our
infrastructure policy—to the extent we even have one—and the likelihood that
the President’s calls for an infrastructure bank are going to be ignored.
In the ongoing discussion about how Truman should leverage our platform to
influence policy in certain areas—the “national security AND” question—I’ve
been talking with Rachel Kleinfeld recently about whether we could do
something on infrastructure and we’re going to discuss in coming months.


There’s a particularly bold and assertive infrastructure guy in D.C. who’s
become both a friend and a client of mine over the last couple of years,
named Norm Anderson—he runs an outfit called CG/LA Infrastructure in D.C.
and works with companies and governments around the world on projects like
bridges, roads, high-speed rail, and water projects. He has been trying to
sound the alarm on how haphazard our infrastructure strategy is in op-eds
and TV appearances, but it’s hard to get the message through, though we are
trying hard.


Every year, CG/LA does a conference on infrastructure in D.C. called the
North American Leadership Forum that’s attended by several hundred
companies, finance types, and experts. Last year, Tom Friedman and Mark
Warner were involved, among others. This year, the conference is on October
11-13 at the Marriott Wardman Hotel on Capitol Hill. I’m attaching an
agenda for your reference.


Especially on the heels of the president’s jobs plan and focus on
infrastructure, the event could do a lot to push infrastructure into
policymakers’ minds. The most significant person who could help, short of
the President, would be your father, especially given how eloquently and
emotionally he speaks about these issues. I’m loath to contact you for that
purpose (and am sure it must become tiring when everyone you know does the
same thing), but in this case I wanted to make a rare exception.


I’m not even sure whether he will be in the country or DC in that timeframe,
but if you had any ability to suggest to him or his staff that he consider
attending this, they would craft a keynote and work whatever else out to
make it easy and powerful. (I also reached out to Tony Blinken, and he has
forwarded the agenda to the economic policy folks, but I thought it couldn’t
hurt to ask you as well).


And if you’re interested in attending the Forum, please let me know and I’ll
make arrangements.


And, of course, no sweat if this won’t work, or if this request is untimely,
inappropriate, redundant, or anything else. Thanks much and I look forward
to seeing you at the next Board meeting.


All best,


Mike

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Michael Signer, Esq., Ph.D.

Managing Principal

Madison Law & Strategy Group, P.L.L.C.

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