Message-ID: <2727240.1075843906873.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:29:00 -0800 (PST) From: mike.mcconnell@enron.com To: john.ambler@enron.com Subject: Re: Potential visit of Chavez to Houston for Astros opening day Cc: emilio.vicens@enron.com, eric.gonzales@enron.com, guido.caranti@enron.com, habiba.bayi@enron.com, david.tagliarino@enron.com, dennis.vegas@enron.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bcc: emilio.vicens@enron.com, eric.gonzales@enron.com, guido.caranti@enron.com, habiba.bayi@enron.com, david.tagliarino@enron.com, dennis.vegas@enron.com X-From: Mike McConnell X-To: John Ambler X-cc: Emilio Vicens, Eric Gonzales, Guido Caranti, Habiba Bayi, Keith Miceli@Enron@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, David Tagliarino, Dennis Vegas, greg grissom@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT X-bcc: X-Folder: \Mark_McConnell_June2001\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: MCCONNELL-M X-FileName: mmcconn.nsf John and all, Please keep me informed on the progress. Mark Frevert and I would like to meet him. mike John Ambler@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT 03/18/2001 12:26 PM To: Emilio Vicens/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT cc: Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Eric Gonzales@ECT, Guido Caranti/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Habiba Bayi/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Keith Miceli@Enron, David Tagliarino@ECT, Dennis Vegas/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, greg grissom Subject: Re: Potential visit of Chavez to Houston for Astros opening day Emilio, In David's absence, Habiba has been in touch with Greg Grissom of the sports marketing group. Greg has confirmed that the Astros have tentatively planned for President Chavez to throw out the first pitch on May 18. We are exploring the possibility of a reception or other opportunity in cooperation with the Astros. As you suggested, we'll also look into other potential contacts. I will be back in Houston on Thursday and Keith Miceli will be next Monday. Since it will likely take several weeks to flesh out the opportunities, I'd like to suggest that we limit e-mails to a work group of Habiba, Keith, Greg, you and me until we have more details to review with Mike and Eric. If you are going to be in Houston during the next two weeks, I'd recommend that we meet. In the interim, we will keep you apprised of further developments. John Emilio Vicens 03/15/2001 02:30 PM To: John Ambler/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT cc: Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Eric Gonzales@ECT, Guido Caranti/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Habiba Bayi/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Keith Miceli@Enron, David Tagliarino@ECT, Dennis Vegas/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT Subject: Re: Potential visit of Chavez to Houston for Astros opening day John and the rest of the team, Here are some additional data points: 1. In a meeting between Jeff Skilling and President Chavez in late-2000 (I was in the meeting), Jeff invited Chavez to Enron Field as our guess. Obviously, Chavez was only visiting the city for a just hours and I believe the season started just a few days later. In any case, we have already done some previous lobby to get President Chavez to the Stadium. This may help whoever is managing the contant with the Astros (probably David T.). I will probably not get much additional input from Caracas. Nevertheless, I strongly suggest that we position Enron as close as we can to this opportunity (we will later see if President Chavez actually make it to Houston); 2. In addition, in previous trips to Houston and in several ocassions, I believe Chavez has always met with George Bush senior and Mr. Mosbacher. I would not be surprised if he do it again. Probably your team can also target these efforts and keep the action at all fronts; Please keep me informed. I would like to be involved as much as possible to move this ahead. Emilio John Ambler 03/14/2001 01:56 PM To: Emilio Vicens/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT cc: Eric Gonzales@ECT, Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT@ECT, Guido Caranti/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Habiba Bayi/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Keith Miceli@Enron, David Tagliarino@ECT, Dennis Vegas/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT Subject: Re: Potential visit of Chavez to Houston for Astros opening day Emilio, We would be very pleased to pursue this. By copy of this message I am asking David Tagliarino, who heads the sports marketing group to get more information and opportunities through our contacts with the Astros and Enron Field. I am in India and Keith Miceli, who covers South America for international public relations, is in Brazil. While we are out of pocket, I'm asking Habiba Bayi, who directs PR support for EGM, to coordinate our involvement. (Although international PR will manage meetings, functions, and general support/strategy for this, I also am copying Dennis Vegas since sports marketing reports into him. As soon as they have information on the potential opportunities, we will get back to you with that information and a suggested program. If your contacts in Venezuela yield additional details, please let us know. Otherwise we will pursue it from this end and keep you apprised and involved in the decision making process. John Emilio Vicens 03/13/2001 03:58 PM To: Eric Gonzales@ECT, Mike McConnell/HOU/ECT@ECT, John Ambler/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT cc: Guido Caranti/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT Subject: Potential visit of Chavez to Houston for Astros opening day Mike and Eric, It was in the newspaper in Caracas today that Chavez is invited by the Astros (Drayton McLane) to be the guess of honor for the opening night. The Astros played some exhibition games in Venezuela last weekend. This is obviously a wonderful opportunity for us to get closer to Chavez. Can we do something to be part of this activity with the Astros?, I copied John Ambler to see how we can coordinate the efforts from today. We should not miss this opportunity if it really happen!! Emilio