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2 Michigan Women Were on Clinton's V.P. Long List, WikiLeaks Documents Show

October 18, 2016, 1:30 PM

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Mary Barra

Before settling on Tim Kaine as her vice president, Hillary Clinton looked at a long list of folks, top GM executive Mary Barra and U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a newly released WikiLeaks email shows.

Barra's and Stabenow's  name was among 39 in a March 17 email from John Podesta, chairman of the Clinton presidential campaign, advising the former secretary of state on vetting possible vice presidential candidates, writes Melissa Burden of The Detroit News. Bernie Sanders also made that list.

Stabenow was also on a list of female Democratic lawmakers that included U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri (whose name was misspelled on the email) and U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, the first openly gay member of Congress, Burden reports. 

Below is the email:

From: john.podesta@gmail.com 
To: hdr29@hrcoffice.com 
Date: 2016-03-17 17:21
Subject: 

Ok, I can breathe again! Congrats on a fabulous night. I am feeling like it's possible to get back to the longer term again.  Cheryl and I met with Jim Hamilton on Friday to discuss lawyers who can  help do the research and vetting that I outlined in the VP vet memo we  discussed. We also met with Marc Elias to get his input on firms that have  already provided substantial volunteer lawyer assistance and to get  prepared to execute non-disclosure agreements with anyone we involve in the  process.   We put together the attached notional teams of “report writers” (confidential  profiles/public record vet) and “vettors” (deep-dive/oppo-book), and want  to run it by you before we execute on the list. Let me know if there are  people you would like to see added or removed before we begin the process.  

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Debbie Stabenow

Cheryl, Robby, Jake, Huma, Jennifer and I also did a first cut of people to  consider for VP. I have organized names in rough food groups. 

  1. Javier Becerra
  2. Julian Castro
  3. Eric Garcetti
  4. Tom Perez
  5. Ken Salazar
  6. Tammy Baldwin
  7. Kirsten Gillibrand
  8. Amy Klobuchar
  9. Claire McKaskill
  10. Jeanne Shaheen
  11. Debbie Stabenow
  12. Elizabeth Warren 
  13. Michael Bennet
  14. Sherrod Brown
  15. Martin Heinreich
  16. Tim Kaine
  17. Terry McAuliffe
  18. Chris Murphy
  19. Tom Vilsack
  20. Steve Benjamin
  21. Corey Booker
  22. Andrew Gillum
  23. Eric Holder
  24. Deval Patrick
  25. Kasim Reed
  26. Anthony Foxx
  27. John Allen
  28. Bill McCraven
  29. Mike Mullen
  30.  Mary Barra
  31. Michael Bloomberg
  32. Ursula Burns
  33. Tim Cook
  34. Bill Gates
  35. Melinda Gates
  36. Muhtar Kent
  37. Judith Rodin
  38. Howard Schultz
  39. Bernie Sanders


Read more:  The Detroit News


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