File this under always double-check before hitting send. As reporters fell over themselves Wednesday morning to confirm the breaking news that President Obama had plans to announce his immigration executive order Thursday and expand upon it Friday, some received an e-mail confirmation by mistake.
AFL-CIO spokesman Jeff Hauser inadvertently forwarded an e-mail intended for immigration activists to a long list of national reporters, including several at The Washington Post.
The original e-mail from Dawn Le at the Alliance for Citizenship was sent to a Google groups list “Ready4Fight.” The subject line was: UNCONFIRMED.
“We hear there will be a prime time Thursday evening announcement (to preview) and full unveiling in Vegas on Friday. Can folks begin to work and plan watch parties for Thursday and/or Friday? Unclear whether Thursday night content will be what is “celebratory”, but Friday will be where we need a lot of energy guaranteed. Need to get a FULL list of locations, key spokespeople you want to lift up (please specify English/Spanish capacity) ASAP. And again, let’s get your booking memos finalized and out. Please send my way,” Le wrote.
Hauser then forwarded it to his media list. He tried to walk it back, asking them to ignore, but you can’t put that genie back in the bottle.
