EFTA02651141.pdf

From: LeRoy Daughter Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 3:15 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Stacey Plaskett Subject: Follow up to our call Thanks so much for talking with me about the current state of politics at ho=e and in DC. Locally, I'm very concerned with our financial state and the unwillingness o= our elected officials to seek real counsel and take the mature "grown up" s=eps necessary to put us on the right path to some economic viability. While=Puerto Rico has a debt problem, the Virgin Islands aside from the debt has a= even greater problem of economic stagnation (no plans for the new paradigm=of financial growth). The individual in the position of governor and the co=position of senators which make up the majority are critical to recovery. A=governor with an obstructionist senate majority get no plans done (Delonghs=last term) or a governor with a rubber stamps senate can take the territory=barreling over a cliff (Mapps first term►. I have spoken at length with McGee and 2 older advisors to DeJongh who playe= critical roles in his first and second win about the need to create a new v=ter file. Delongh's file was never updated after the first win and is now s=ale. This would be an almost one year project of developing the list of Vir=in Islanders who have voted in several prior elections (segregating primary=and general), current phone, email and physical addresses. This is the most=important group to poll for messaging and later phone banking for support a=d get to the polls. (Others poll by phone book or on the street. Not accura=e). I, along with the 2-3 individuals who assist in financing this project, will=then use the information to make rational data driven decisions about local=election (who for what positions, along with messaging and campaign work). M=Gee will also advice the candidates chosen from the group. I'd like to launch by the next month and would appreciate your partnership t= make this happen. This project would allow us to completely outperform any=ne in any race. On the DC front, I will be meeting Schumer the week of May 16. That same we=k I'm having a strategy dinner with 3 DC operatives with 70+ yrs combined e=perience representing convergent sectors of Dems (1 Blue Dog/Tues Rep lobby=st, an old Tip ONeilI,Gephardt Rostenkowski guy and a progressive Clinton w=man) to discuss path forward. Also in my discussion with McGee we discussed the impression you had that th= USVI was in the PROMESA bill. We are absolutely not in the bill. I was abl= to negotiate with Treasury, gain the support of a block of Dems who held v=te until the USVI and smaller territories were satisfied with the bill, and=got a Moderate Rep to offer the amendment to remove the small territories f=om the bill. The original VI strategy was to have us removed and immediatel= the Gov and his team would quietly inform Jeffries and others of our staun=h conservatism and unwillingness to request the same provisions. Because th= Gov and his team "didn't believe Plaskett could get it done" (the lobbyist=direct quote to me) they never activated their portion of the plan and so t=e street never knew we were excluded. Jeffrey, would really appreciate your support in the project and thoughts on=our home and national scene. Look forward to hearing back. Stacey EFTA_R1_01892359 EFTA02651141 Stacey Plaskett, Esq.=?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Propertylist-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-idgkey> <integer>44978</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1493997294</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195717</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>710944</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01892360 EFTA02651142