220302 0807 Fwd_ Ask Fred About Raising $ to pay Jonathan this summerFrom:Frances Marquez
To:Frances Marquez
Subject:Fwd: Ask Fred About Raising $$ to pay Jonathan this summer
Date:Wednesday, March 2, 2022 8:07:27 AM
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From: Michele Magar <tanyaprojectmlp@gmail.com>
Subject: Ask Fred About Raising $$ to pay Jonathan this summer
Date: March 2, 2022 at 3:38:26 AM PST
To: Frances Marquez <fmarquez@cypressca.org>
He needs income this summer. Don’t make him get a crappy job at minimum
wage and then volunteer for you on top of that. He deserves better, and you
deserve a paid intern.
What if you had your wealthy supporters raise money for an intern for the
summer, so you can offer him a salary (hopefully FT, but at least 20 hours/week)?
I have no idea if that’s legit, but common sense says it must be, so I suggest you
email Fred and ask him whether it would violate any laws for you to have
your supporters donate funding for a paid summer intern. You should also
ask if you would be required to offer benefits (I have no clue), or if you could
pay Jonathan as an independent contractor and just add 30% to his hourly
fee to compensate him in cash (which would doubtless be more valuable to
him since I’m sure he’s already covered under his school’s health insurance
program, for example).
You should do this now, because students have summer jobs lined up by
March.
If you hire Jonathan for 10 weeks at 40 hours per week at $20/hour, you’d need to
raise $8K, which is peanuts for wealthy people. You’d get a FT staff person
who’s smart, savvy, and has wheels and can help you right when you’ll be
needing help to endorse two candidates and help them learn how to run for office.
You should definitely have Jonathan attend the zoom training you will offer
women democrats who want to run for office in Cypress, once you get your
consultant to agree on a time and date for it. If he’s going to help, he should
understand what’s needed to run for office.
If we’re lucky, you’ll be planting a seed that will flower in a few years once he’s
had a chance to get bored with lawyering and decides to run for office!
— M