(T1:20; T7:842, 845; R86:11,311-12.) Republican operatives who participated, either in person or by telephone, were: (1) Heffley, a Republican consultant who worked with Gaetz; (2) Marc Reichelderfer, a Republican consultant who worked with Cannon; (3) Patrick Bainter, a Republican consultant and the owner of consulting and polling firm Data Targeting, Inc.; (4) Frank Terraferma, a Republican consultant who worked with Speaker of the House Will Weatherford, who was then Chair of the House Redistricting Committee; (5) Benjamin Ginsberg, a Washington, D.C. attorney who represented the Republican National Committee in redistricting matters; (6) Joel Springer, director of Senate campaigns for the RPOF; and (7) Andrew Palmer, director of House campaigns for the RPOF. (T1:20; T7:842, 845; R86:11,311-12.) Reichelderfer described the December 2010 meeting as a gathering of “people that were traditionally involved in the redistricting process” to discuss how to proceed under the FairDistricts Amendments. (T1:27-28.) Although the meeting’s attendees generally claimed that they could not recall what was discussed, one topic of particular interest was whether legislators’ redistricting-related communications with political operatives could be protected as privileged. (T1:30-32; R86:11,312.) Reichelderfer prepared a memorandum after the meeting that included the following topics, among others: “What is our best operational theory of the language in [the Amendments] related to retrogression of minority districts?”; 9