From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 5:02 PM
Cc: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: Trump’s message to black America: Ferguson and Oakland are the new Iraq
Ready for research.
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 5:00 PM
To: Jefferson, Deshundra; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: Trump’s message to black America: Ferguson and Oakland are the new Iraq
Change last line to end with clearly lacks the judgment and temperament
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-------- Original message --------
From: "Jefferson, Deshundra"
>
Date: 05/18/2016 16:54 (GMT-05:00)
To: "Paustenbach, Mark"
>, "Miranda, Luis"
>, "Walker, Eric"
>, "Walsh, Tom"
>
Subject: RE: Trump’s message to black America: Ferguson and Oakland are the new Iraq
Huffington Post is interested in doing a story. Can I forward our statement to RR2?
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 3:58 PM
To: Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: Trump’s message to black America: Ferguson and Oakland are the new Iraq
Mark, Luis: Any comments?
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 2:52 PM
To: Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom
Subject: Trump’s message to black America: Ferguson and Oakland are the new Iraq
Donald Trump has put down the dog whistle in favor of a megaphone. In an interview with The New York Times Magazine, Donald Trump equated Ferguson and Oakland to Iraq, claiming both cities are “among the most dangerous in the world.” Equating these two American cities to a war zone is meant to stoke fear of living in black communities, and further highlights his callous disregard for the African-American community.
Trump hasn’t shied away from using race as a wedge issue during his presidential bid. He immediately launched into a verbal tirade against Mexican immigrants, calling them criminals, drug dealers and rapists when he launched his campaign.
He was slow to distance himself David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan who endorsed the campaign, during a Meet the Press interview. Trump also vowed to ban Muslims from entering the United States within his first 100 days in office, and claimed that thousands of Muslims were cheering as the World Trade Center fell during September 11.
Trump’s latest message to black America that Ferguson and Oakland are the new Iraq is yet another example of his dangerous and divisive race-baiting. We’re not sure how much lower Trump can sink, but he clearly lacks the judgment and temperament necessary to lead.
[SigDems]
Deshundra Jefferson, Southern Regional Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
JeffersonD@dnc.org
| (202) 863-8112


Subject Line: Cruz in December: @realDonaldTrump is terrific. #DealWithIt
Body: Ted Cruz is as disingenuous as they come.
Back in December, when Cruz thought he could help his own poll numbers by clinging to Donald Trump like a baby koala, he tweeted this:
Now that Cruz has no path to nomination, he's decided to lash out and throw the oppo book at Trump in a last-ditch effort to save his own grand political ambitions.
But at the end of the day, Cruz still hasn't reneged on his promise to support Trump as the GOP nominee. So there you have it: Ted Cruz's criticisms of Trump have nothing to do with conviction and everything to do with what helps Ted Cruz politically.
Ironically, in a press conference that may prove to be Cruz's last as a candidate, he seems to have perfectly confirmed the moniker used against him in this campaign. He really is Lyin' Ted.


You're invited
Best,
Sean Sorbie
Tracking Coordinator
Democratic National Committee
Office: (202) 488-5004
Cell: (727)458-8583
[SigDems]


Clean version below for Luis or Mark to send out.
Hi team,
The stakes will keep on getting higher and higher us as November approaches. For that reason, I'd like to clarify responsibilities for our weekend rotation so that we send out releases in a timely fashion - and not hours after they've been approved. If you have any questions about how to blast, please let Rachel and Jenna know before your weekend rotation.
Thx.
LEAD
*         Be within an hour of a computer for the entire weekend.
*         Set aside Sunday morning to coordinate with research and immediately send notes around after Sunday shows.
*         Take the lead on writing releases and pitching in a timely fashion.
*         Take the lead on moving all hits along, bumping for approval if need be.
*         Blast all releases and post them to Factivists.
*         If for some reason you have an emergency (for example: you are hit by a bus or your computer is fried) and you cannot be point to write and blast a release, you are in charge of communicating with your backup to ensure they can take your place. Don't just ignore your email-it's your responsibility to communicate with your backup.
*         Plan all social and personal activity accordingly. If you will be away from a computer for more than an hour, make sure your back up is available during that time.
*         Send articles around the slack group and comm_d throughout the weekend.
BACKUP
*         Be within an hour of a computer for the entire weekend.
*         If the lead has an emergency and is unable to fulfil their role, you must take point for writing releases, pitching, and blasting.
*         Stay in communication with your lead throughout the weekend to see how you can be helpful.
*         Send articles around the slack group and comm_d throughout the weekend.
BACKUP #2
*         If both the lead and the backup have an emergency, you are next in line to take point. This role will usually not be needed, but it is an extra precaution in the rare circumstance that the lead and backup are unable to fulfill their duties.
*         Only used a last resort and for legitimate excuses.
From: Paustenbach, Mark
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 2:14 PM
To: Garcia, Walter
Cc: Palermo, Rachel; Miranda, Luis; Price, Jenna
Subject: Re: Draft: Expectations for Weekend Rotation
Second sentence has two references to "out"
Otherwise okay
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
On May 9, 2016, at 1:54 PM, Garcia, Walter
> wrote:
Made some adds below. Thx team. Think this is def something we should do b/c both TJ and Pablo had to be on this weekend, yet they wanted Rachel, Jenna or myself to help with stuff.
From: Palermo, Rachel
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: Garcia, Walter; Price, Jenna; Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: RE: Draft: Expectations for Weekend Rotation
Adding Jenna and Walter since they also had thoughts on this. (And adding Mark for awareness.) Thanks!
--
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org
202-863-8041
From: Palermo, Rachel
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 1:08 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Draft: Expectations for Weekend Rotation
Please make changes as you'd like. I think this is important to go out to our team.
Hi team,
The stakes will keep on getting higher and higher us as November approaches. For that reason, I'd like to clarify responsibilities for our weekend rotation so that we send out releases out in a timely fashion - and not hours after they've been approved. If you have any questions about how to blast, please let Rachel and Jenna know before your weekend rotation.
Thx.
LEAD
*         Be within an hour of a computer for the entire weekend.
*         Set aside Sunday morning to coordinate with research and immediately send notes around after Sunday shows.
*         Take the lead on writing releases and pitching in a timely fashion.
*         Take the lead on moving all hits along, bumping for approval if need be.
*         Blast all releases and post them to Factivists.
*         If for some reason you have an emergency (for example: you are hit by a bus or your computer is fried) and you cannot be point to write and blast a release, you are in charge of communicating with your backup to ensure they can take your place. Don't just ignore your email-it's your responsibility to communicate with your backup.
*         Plan all social and personal activity accordingly. If you will be away from a computer for more than an hour, make sure your back up is available during that time.
*         Send articles around the slack group and comm_d throughout the weekend.
BACKUP
*         Be within an hour of a computer for the entire weekend.
*         If the lead has an emergency and is unable to fulfil their role, you must take point for writing releases, pitching, and blasting.
*         Stay in communication with your lead throughout the weekend to see how you can be helpful.
*         Send articles around the slack group and comm_d throughout the weekend.
BACKUP #2
*         If both the lead and the backup have an emergency, you are next in line to take point. This role will usually not be needed, but it is an extra precaution in the rare circumstance that the lead and backup are unable to fulfill their duties.
*         Only used a last resort and for legitimate excuses.
--
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org
202-863-8041


Madam Chair,
There are reports Kasich may suspend his campaign today at 5pm. Here is a statement for your review.
Thanks,
Mark
For Immediate Release
May 4, 2016
Contact - DNC Press 202-863-8148
DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz's Statement on Governor Kasich's Announcement that he is Suspending his Campaign for President
"With Governor Kasich out of the race, any remaining hope the GOP had of concealing its true colors behind his comparatively friendly-faced candidacy has evaporated. But make no mistake, the extreme policies he has long fought for are virtually indistinguishable from those of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and the rest of the modern Republican Party.
"Under Kasich, Ohio's job growth has trailed the national average for 40 straight months. He promised to fight any federal increase in the minimum wage. And he has one of the most extreme anti-choice records of any governor in the country, having signed legislation that shut down half the abortion clinics in his state.
"For years, Republican leaders have employed a divisive political strategy to compel people to vote out of distrust, suspicion and hate - rewarding those at the top and denigrating women, minorities, the LGBT community and more in the process. The result is the cynical, divided, bickering Republican base we see now. Today, the only energy left in the Republican primary isn't for anything, and their final contest is already shaping up to be a bitter, petty battle with one camp against Trump, and the other against Cruz.
"The contrast couldn't be more stark. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are fighting for the American people - for higher wages, for more opportunity, for a level playing field and for a brighter future. Our voters are energized, enthusiastic, and optimistic because our candidates are committed to moving America forward. And that's why we're going to win on Election Day in November."
###


FYI I don't think Trump himself wasn't on, but he was referring to this
Wow, Rosanne Brewer Lane, the most prominently depicted women in the failing @nytimes story yesterday,is on @foxandfriends saying Times lied

Sent from my phone.  Please excuse errors or brevity.
-------- Original message --------
From: "Freundlich, Christina"
Date: 5/16/16 7:02 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: Comm_D
Subject: Video request: Trump on Fox and Friends
[    Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump
)
5/16/16, 7:00 AM
That was an amazing interview on @foxandfriends
- I hope the rest of the media picks it up to show how totally dishonest the @nytimes
is!
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SL: Trump vs. Trump on Releasing his Tax Returns
Every major presidential candidate since 1976 has made their returns public and, until recently, Donald Trump agreed with that forty-year precedent.  When he first considered running for President in 1999, he said, "I probably wouldn't have a problem releasing my tax returns if I ran." In 2012 he said if you're running for President, "at a minimum, you probably had to show your tax returns" and they should be released by April 1st of the election year.
But, now Trump won't hold himself to those standards. His refusal to release his own tax returns raises questions about what he's hiding. Below is an abridged timeline of Trump's shifting positions over the years.
When he first considered running for President...
1999
: "I probably wouldn't have a problem releasing my tax returns if I ran."
1999
: When asked about releasing his tax returns for a presidential bid, Trump said he had been an "open book."
During the last Presidential election in 2012...
2012
: Trump claimed the historic precedent was that presidential candidates released their tax returns by April 1
2012: "If you didn't see the tax returns, you would think there is almost like something was wrong. What's wrong?"
2012:  Trump said if you were running for president, "at a minimum, you probably had to show your tax returns."
2012
: Trump said that Mitt Romney's returns were "very honorably done" and were "absolutely beautiful and perfect."
Over the past year while he ran for President...
2015
: "I have no objection to certainly showing tax returns."
2015
: "I want to tell you right now that I have no problem with giving my tax returns but I would tell you upfront a stupid person, a really stupid person is paying a lot of taxes."
2016:
"Over the next three, four months. We're working on them very hard. And they will be very good."
2016
: Trump claimed he could not release his tax returns because he was being audited, despite it being
"very, very unfair."
"Donald Trump saw what happened to Mitt Romney when the American people learned he paid
just 14 percent in taxes on $40 million in earnings, it proved he just didn't understand hardworking Americans.  This isn't primary season anymore, Donald Trump has to be held accountable and the American people should know whether the reality TV mogul pays less in taxes than middle-class families. If Donald Trump can't be trusted now, he can't be trusted to have the judgment and temperament the American people expect of a President." - Luis Miranda, DNC Communications Director


TJ's radio hit last week was solid.
Sent from my iPhone
On Apr 27, 2016, at 4:58 PM, Walker, Eric
> wrote:
Why wouldn’t it be TJ? Regional press in the midwestern region.
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 4:46 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; Manriquez, Pablo; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: RE: Booking request: DWS this Friday for Detroit radio
Walker, you up for it?
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-------- Original message --------
From: "Helmstetter, TJ"
>
Date: 04/27/2016 4:43 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Manriquez, Pablo"
>, "Miranda, Luis"
>, "Walker, Eric"
>, "Paustenbach, Mark"
>
Subject: Booking request: DWS this Friday for Detroit radio
Hey guys – I think they’ll probably take a spokesperson, doesn’t need to be Debbie. But passing along for you to decide.
From: karenmorgan@thewriteeidea.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 4:41 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Hello T.J.
I am sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you when you were in Flint for the debate but maybe we will meet at the Democratic Convention.
I am contacting you because Bankole Thompson Editorial Columnist at The Detroit News and host on Detroit's newest radio station Superstation 910 am ( he is a former host on WDET public radio in Detroit where he interviewed the chair on what was then an overcrowded Republican field of candidates and the difference between that race and the Democratic race) would like to interview Rep. Schultz on his show Friday April 29, 2016. He would like to discuss the recent caucuses as well as Ted Cruz's decision to name Carly Fiorina as his running mate and their attraction to potential voters.
Redline airs every Friday from 12:00m-2:00pm. We would prefer to have her at 1:00pm as that is our most listened to hour but we will take her anytime she is available during the show. If she is not available this week, perhaps she could join us next week.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter,
Karen Morgan
Producer
Redline
(313) 377-0673


For the record, I suggested we draft a statement and everyone said no!
Except for Eric Bennett
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:28 PM -0700, "Helmstetter, TJ"
> wrote:

Sent from my iPhone
On May 3, 2016, at 8:26 PM, Freundlich, Christina
> wrote:
Holy fuck
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:25 PM -0700, "Bennett, Eric"
> wrote:
Just in: @TedCruz is ending his presidential campaign, campaign manager Jeff Roe tells me.
Original Tweet:
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From: Michael Briggs
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 11:20 AM
To: Brinster, Jeremy
Subject: NEWS: Clinton is Not Telling the Truth on Auto Bailout
[Image removed by sender. Bernie 2016]
Clinton is Not Telling the Truth on Auto Bailout
May 16, 2016
Contact: Michael Briggs (802) 233-8653
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign spokesman on Monday said Hillary Clinton should stop trying to distort the truth about Sanders’ support for legislation to help carmakers and auto workers.
Campaigning in Kentucky before Tuesday’s primary election, Clinton repeated her false claim that Sanders did not vote to fund an auto industry aid package in 2008. In fact, Sanders voted for a $14 billion aid package which passed the House of Representatives on Dec. 10, 2008. When that bill ran into a Senate Republican roadblock, the White House turned to a separate Wall Street bailout fund for loans to the auto industry.
“It is absolutely untrue to say that Sen. Sanders voted against helping the automobile industry and auto workers,” said Sanders' spokesman Michael Briggs. “Secretary Clinton first made this false claim before the Michigan primary. She now is recycling the erroneous charge in Kentucky. Once again, Secretary Clinton is simply not telling the truth.”
When Clinton first mischaracterized Sanders’ position before Michigan’s March 8 primary, The Washington Post
said Clinton was trying to deceive voters and that she “glosses over a lot ... including the fact that Sanders is actually on the record as supporting the auto bailout. He even voted for it.” The Post also said of Clinton, “It seems like she’s willing to take the gamble that fact checkers may call her out for her tactic … but that voters won’t.”
Unlike Clinton, Sanders did vote against bailing out big banks after the 2008 economic collapse. “It is true that Sen. Sanders voted against bailing out the crooks on Wall Street whose illegal behavior and greed brought this economy into the worst downturn since the 1930s,” Briggs said.
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Point out what?
(Sorry I'm sending this from two email accounts. I hate the iPhone)
Sent from my iPhone
On May 8, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
Off the record, If you get the list I'll point out.
Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------
From: Daniel Strauss
>
Date: 05/08/2016 1:28 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis"
>
Subject: Re: Deep background question
Sorry message was cut off before I could send:
I get that and will ask but I'm getting very different claims from different people on how this all went down (for instance I'm still trying to verify that the Sanders people submitted ineligible names and weren't told to correct those names). Any way you can help me straighten that out?
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 8, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
>
> Off the record, you should request it from them, we don't divulge private communications from our candidates. However, since they raised it as an issue it would be surprising if they didn't send it to you.
> ________________________________________
> From: Daniel Strauss [dstrauss1987@me.com
]
> Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:25 PM
> To: Miranda, Luis
> Subject: Deep background question
>
> Hey
>
> So we want to see the list of committee appointments the Sanders   Folks submitted just to verify it was mostly staffers and ineligible figures. That possible with no fingerprints attached?
>
> Sent from my iPhone


What: Mark and Jared Halpern
What: One on one interview on Indiana primary.
When: Tomorrow night, 7:35PM EST
Where: At Mark’s convenience (needs to be somewhere quiet)
Lock it in?
Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
web: democrats.org
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC


For Immediate Release
May 2, 2016
Contact - DNC Press 202-863-8148
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Statement on Jewish American Heritage Month
Washington, DC - DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement today in recognition of May as Jewish American Heritage Month. As a Congresswoman, Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz was instrumental in establishing May as Jewish American Heritage Month. President George W. Bush first proclaimed JAHM almost in 2006 and it has been celebrated ever since:
"This month, we celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month by marking the important contributions that Jews have made to American life throughout U.S. history.
"From a young age, my parents taught me that a central tenet of our faith is tikkun olam - repairing the world. As active citizens and as Jews, they helped me understand that we have a responsibility to advocate for others and on behalf of justice and righteousness.
"This year's JAHM theme - Jewish contributions to education - builds upon that legacy of tikkun olam. We know that education can be the key for parents who want to give their children a better life or a chance to escape the cycle of poverty. Education is also our best defense against bigotry and ignorance in society. Jewish Americans have made major contributions to the American education system, most notably Julius Rosenwald's effort to help build more than 5,000 schools in the American South. By fighting for a better education for all Americans, Jewish Americans can do our part to repair our country and the world.
"There's a reason why two-thirds of Jews identify with the Democratic Party: because the Democratic Party's values are in sync with the values of the Jewish community, like tzedakah, or charity, gemilut hasadim, the gift of loving kindness, and the cause of social justice. This Jewish American Heritage Month, I'm proud to call myself a Democrat because I know that we are not only advancing the causes of our party but of the Jewish people."
Eric Walker
walkere@dnc.org
732-991-1489
@ericmwalker


Politico: Sanders campaign withdraws lawsuit against DNC
By DANIEL STRAUSS
04/29/16 04:50 PM EDT
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Bernie Sanders' campaign is withdrawing its lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee that alleged it wrongly revoked the campaign's access to its voter data file.
In its statement on Friday announcing the withdrawal, Sanders' campaign also strongly maintained that it never deliberately stole information.
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"The Sanders campaign never 'stole' any voter file data; the Sanders campaign never 'exported' any unauthorized voter file data; and the Sanders campaign certainly never had access to the Clinton campaign's 'strategic road map,' the Sanders campaign said.
The campaign initially filed the lawsuit in December after a controversy late last year in which Sanders staffers improperly accessed information from Hillary Clinton's data file after a firewall between the campaigns' information was inadvertently dropped.
The DNC quickly punished Sanders by cutting off his campaign's access to its own voter file information. The move incensed Sanders' camp, which accused the DNC of flagrantly favoring Clinton.
Sanders sued for negligence and breach of contract. His campaign sought $75,000 in damages from the DNC for temporarily freezing the data access.
The Sanders campaign statement on Friday went on to say that an independent investigation vindicated the campaign in the matter.
"With the investigation behind us, the campaign has withdrawn its lawsuit against the DNC today but continues to implore the DNC to address the systemic instability that remains in its voter file system," the statement said. "It is imperative that the DNC make it a top priority to prevent future data security failures in the voter file system, failures that only serve as unnecessary distractions to the democratic process."
But in a separate statement, the DNC said that the independent investigation by CrowdStrike agreed upon by the Sanders campaign and the DNC "identified evidence of unauthorized access via four user accounts from the Bernie 2016 campaign. All unauthorized access occurred during a one-hour period from 10:41 to 11:42 EST on December 16, 2015."
"During that time, the four users conducted 25 searches using proprietary Hillary for America score data across 11 states. All of the results of these searches were saved within the VoteBuilder system, with the exception of one instance where a user exported a statistical summary of a search using HFA scoring in New Hampshire," the DNC statement said. "CrowdStrike found no evidence of unauthorized access by the Hillary for America or O'Malley for President campaigns. Today, the Sanders campaign also voluntarily dismissed the breach of contract action pending against the DNC."
Read more: #ixzz47Fe3StwE


This is doable on my end.
On May 19, 2016, at 10:08 AM, Palermo, Rachel
> wrote:
Hi everyone,
Starting today, Luis would like all interviews from DWS, Mark, or Luis, to have YouTube Links tweeted out from @dncpress within 30 minutes of when the interviews air. To speed up this process, we would like YouTube links (on DNC clips) to be sent with the vantage link to comm_d in reply to the video request.
The title of the links can all be in this format:
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on (NETWORK NAME) (SHOW NAME)
DNC National Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach on (NETWORK NAME) (SHOW NAME)
DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda on (NETWORK NAME) (SHOW NAME)
After I receive the links, I will send them around to the twitter approval chain.
Please chat with Luis if you have questions. Thanks! I really appreciate it.
Rachel
--
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org
202-863-8041


Cool, Mark? Are you up for it?
Sent from my iPhone
> On May 10, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Walker, Eric
wrote:
>
> Would rather not do. It's going to be all about how Hillary is in trouble bc Bernie won West Virginia.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manriquez, Pablo
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 3:26 PM
> To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric
> Subject: Request - ERIC//SIRIUS XM//TONIGHT
>
> WHO: Eric (or someone else) and David Webb
>
> WHAT:  Live one on one interview about primary night and the look ahead to next week. Note: Webb's is a right wing show on SIRIUS XM's "Patriot" channel.
>
> WHEN: 10:40 PM ET
>
> DURATION: 7 mins
>
> WHERE: Dial-in or in-studio.
>
> Sent from my iPhone


Sometime later this hour


Wasserman Schultz Statement on First Confirmed U.S. Zika Virus Death
Washington, DC - U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) issued the following statement today after Puerto Rico confirmed the first death from the Zika virus:
"I'm saddened to learn that we have already suffered our first death from the Zika virus and my thoughts are with the victim's family. As I've said for months, this is an unfolding public health crisis in Florida and Puerto Rico and soon, other parts of the nation. We need House Republicans to stop dragging their feet on emergency supplemental funding for Zika and join President Obama and Congressional Democrats by taking immediate action to arrest this burgeoning health crisis."
###
Read the statement online
.
Earlier this week, Rep. Wasserman Schultz, Rep. Nita Lowey (NY-17) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) introduced H.R. 5044, an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to mount a robust response to the Zika virus at home and abroad. The bill reflects the Administration's request of February 22, 2016 for a total of $1.9 billion in emergency spending.  The request is updated to include increased funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for vaccine and diagnostic research and development, and a corresponding reduction in funding for CDC Facilities and a Contingency Fund to respond to emerging needs.
Contact:
Geoff Burgan, Geoff.Burgan@mail.house.gov
, 202.225.7931


Mr. Miranda,
Thank you once again for agreeing to speak to our group on Wednesday May 11.
Below is the detailed agenda, topics we would like discussed, and a map to the room.
I am the best point of contact that day, so if you need anything at all please do not hesitate to contact me at 312-806-6053 or via email
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks so much!
Wednesday May 11
12:00-1:15pm                     Lunch & Political Briefing
Luis Miranda- DNC Communications Director
Sean Spicer- RNC Communications Director
Location: Columbus Room, Union Station
Program
12:15- Introduction by CME Group Executive
12:20-12:30- Remarks DNC-Miranda
12:30-12:40- Remarks RNC-Spicer
12:40-1:00- 20 min Q&A
Topics to be discussed:
-          Outlook on Congressional races House & Senate
-          Outlook on Presidential races and Conventions
From: Moses Mercado
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 1:23 PM
To: MirandaL@dnc.org
Cc: Suarez, Raquel; Gordon Taylor; Edgar Rivas
Subject: Fwd: Speaking opportuntunity
Luis, thanks for agreeing to help on this event. I k ow your are extremely busy so we area ally appreciate your willingness to participate .  See below the outline and adding Raquel, who can answer any other questions.
Sent from my iPhone
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Suarez, Raquel"
>
Date: April 1, 2016 at 1:08:05 PM EDT
To: Gordon Taylor
>
Cc: Moses Mercado
>
Subject: Re: Speaking opportuntunity
Great news! So the event will be closed to the press, we will have our own internal photographer there but that will be just for our own use (PAC newsletter)
No specific topics just general state of the races followed by 5-10 minutes of Q&A
Just so Mr. Miranda knows our plan is to both let him and Sean Spicer from the RNC speak respectively about what they see happening in the state of the race at the presidential and congressional levels. Also we have confirmed and the event will be held in the Columbus Room at Union Station
Please let me know if he has any additional questions
Thanks for all your help
Raquel,
Moses has come through again, but Luis has a few additional questions below that I am hoping you can answer so that he can lock it
down. Copying Moses on this, too. Thx
Gordon
Begin forwarded message:
From: Moses Mercado
>
Date: April 1, 2016 at 11:55:11 AM EDT
To: "Miranda, Luis"
>
Cc: "Palermo, Rachel"
>, Gordon Taylor
>, Edgar Rivas
>
Subject: Re: Speaking opportuntunity
Thank you sir , let me check in the details. My colleague Gordon is working with them. Will get you all Infromation ASAP
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Just saw her out of the corner of my eye, not sure if she was just on or is coming up


Please make changes as you'd like. I think this is important to go out to our team.
Hi team,  we'd like to clarify responsibilities for our weekend rotation. We need to make sure we are pushing hits along and getting our releases out in a timely fashion. Please see me with questions.
LEAD
*         Be within an hour of a computer for the entire weekend.
*         Set aside Sunday morning to coordinate with research and immediately send notes around after Sunday shows.
*         Take the lead on writing releases and pitching in a timely fashion.
*         Take the lead on moving all hits along, bumping for approval if need be.
*         Blast all releases and post them to Factivists.
*         If for some reason you have an emergency (for example: you are hit by a bus or your computer is fried) and you cannot be point to write and blast a release, you are in charge of communicating with your backup to ensure they can take your place. Don't just ignore your email-it's your responsibility to communicate with your backup.
*         Plan all social and personal activity accordingly. If you will be away from a computer for more than an hour, make sure your back up is available during that time.
*         Send articles around the slack group and comm_d throughout the weekend.
BACKUP
*         Be within an hour of a computer for the entire weekend.
*         If the lead has an emergency and is unable to fulfil their role, you must take point for writing releases, pitching, and blasting.
*         Stay in communication with your lead throughout the weekend to see how you can be helpful.
*         Send articles around the slack group and comm_d throughout the weekend.
BACKUP #2
*         If both the lead and the backup have an emergency, you are next in line to take point. This role will usually not be needed, but it is an extra precaution in the rare circumstance that the lead and backup are unable to fulfill their duties.
*         Only used a last resort and for legitimate excuses.
--
[DNC]
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org
202-863-8041


Per Pablo we're locked in for 6:50am tomorrow for DWS on CNN.
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
On Apr 26, 2016, at 10:02 PM, Miranda, Luis
> wrote:
It’s good. Did you lock it in?
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 7:03 PM
To: Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric
Subject: FLAG: Trump on before DWS tomorrow
We’re getting pushed to 6:50 because Trump is calling in at 6:15AM. I’m going to go ahead and lock it in. Let me know if that’s not okay.
Pablo Manriquez
Democratic National Committee
Phone: 202.572.5488
Email: pablo@dnc.org
web: democrats.org
Twitter: @Pablo_DNC


The Voter-ID Fight in Missouri
After a decade of battles, Republicans hope to call a referendum to amend the state constitution to require photo identification to cast a ballot.
*    DAVID A. GRAHAM
10:29 AM ET
There is a variety of origin stories
for why Missouri is known as "the Show-Me State." But if Republicans in the state legislature get their way, it could take on new meaning for voters headed to the polls-as in, "Show me your photo ID."
The state senate, which is overwhelmingly Republican, is considering a double-barreled proposal. One part
is a joint resolution that would place a ballot measure before voters to create a constitutional amendment requiring voters to show photo identification to vote. The other part
governs how the requirement would be enforced if approved; in particular, it would require the legislature to fund
programs to help get voters who don't have some form of ID a card. If there's no money, the requirement wouldn't go into effect. The House already passed both halves in January
. Senate Republicans brought the issue up Wednesday, but Democrats filibustered until 2 a.m., and the issue was temporarily set aside.
Democrats have repeatedly obstructed
attempts to pass the measures. Republicans are expected to bring it up again before the end of the session on May 13, and may use procedural measures
to try to end the Democratic filibuster. If they succeed, Governor Jay Nixon, a Democrat, could veto the the bill, but his veto would likely be overridden. He can't veto the joint resolution.
Missouri is one of several states to bring up tighter voting-related laws over the last few years. The bill under consideration is one of the stricter laws to come up since North Carolina passed a passel of rules to tighten voting regulations in 2013
, including shortening early voting, eliminating same-day registration, and a photo-ID requirement. That law, in turn, has been described as the nation's strictest since the Supreme Court's 2013 decision inShelby County v. Holder eliminated a requirement that jurisdictions with a history of discrimination pre-clear new voting laws with the Department of Justice, which had effectively blocked most stricter laws. The North Carolina law is subject to a court challenge. A federal judge on Monday ruled against plaintiffs challenging the law, but the decision has already been appealed, and the Fourth Circuit said Thursday it would expedite the case
. Many experts expect the Supreme Court to have the final say.
The arguments in Missouri are familiar from North Carolina and elsewhere: Republicans argue that voter-ID laws are essential to preserve the sanctity of elections, lest fraudulent votes be cast. Besides, they say, state-issued photo ID is required for a range of normal activities, like driving a car. Is it really so much to ask people to produce one before they vote?
Democrats and other advocates respond that such laws are simply tools of voter suppression. They point out that there are next to no documented cases of voter fraud, and describe bills like this as a solution in search of a problem. They also note that driving a car, unlike voting, is not a fundamental right, and point to the fact that studies have shown that such laws are most likely to affect poor, young, and minority voters. (For example, Missouri's changes would exclude photo ID from state universities
.) It's no coincidence, they say, that those are blocs that overwhelmingly vote Democratic.
In some states, Republican lawmakers have slipped up and said just that. "Now we have photo ID, and I think photo ID is going to make a little bit of a difference as well," U.S. Representative Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin said earlier this month
. In 2012, the Republican leader of the Pennsylvania state house said
voter ID was "gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania." (Instead, a judge blocked the law and Obama won the state.)
"Missouri is one of those swing-ish states where you've got Republican control and the thinking is that this could make a difference, like North Carolina," said Rick Hasen, a professor of law of the University of California, Irvine, and election-law expert. Barack Obama narrowly lost the state in 2008, and while it might not be on the map in 2016, there is a Senate race, too.
Missouri voters already have to show some form of ID to vote, but the requirement is liberal-accepted documents include an expired license, an out-of-state license, a student ID, utility bills, paychecks, and more.
"This is a piece of discrimination," state Representative Joe Adams, a black Democrat from St. Louis, said in January
. "It is Jim Crow in its worst form. And I would be embarrassed if I voted for this piece of legislation. I would be embarrassed to look at my children."
In 2014, Secretary of State Jason Kander, a Democrat, released a report
on the effect such a law would have and estimated that 220,000 voters could be disenfranchised under the law, though it's not entirely clear how Kander calculated that number:
Among the hundreds of thousands of eligible Missouri voters that could be kept from voting by HB 1073 are students with current school-issued photo ID's, senior citizens who no longer drive, Missourians who rely on public transportation, and women who have changed their last names due to marriage or divorce.
State Senator Will Kraus, one of the leading backers of the bill-and a Republican candidate to succeed Kander, who is running for U.S. Senate-has pointed to a few cases. "There's over 16 people in the state of Missouri who have been convicted of some type of voter fraud. That shows people in the state of Missouri are trying to cheat elections," Kraus said in January. But as PolitiFact noted
, the cases that Kraus pointed to are all cases of fraud in registration-not cases of voter impersonation, which is ostensibly what voter-ID laws combat. Kander's 2014 report stated, "There has not been a single case of voter impersonation fraud reported to the Secretary of State's office."
In Missouri, not only are the arguments familiar-the fight is, too. Republicans have been trying unsuccessfully to tighten the state's laws for a decade now. A 2006 attempt was passed and signed into law, but the state supreme court struck it down
as an unconstitutional infringement on the right to vote, in part because itforced citizens to assume
the cost of obtaining ID.
In 2011, Governor Nixon vetoed another attempt
. There were not enough votes to override him. The following year, state Republicans tried again, this time using a constitutional amendment to sidestep the supreme court ruling. But a judge ruled that attempt unconstitutional
, too, and it was excluded from the ballot.
Voter-ID laws tend to do well on the ballot. One notable exception is in Minnesota, where Democrats mobilized and blocked a constitutional amendment in 2012
. Doing that might be harder in Missouri, a redder state.
As conservative-leaning states work to impose stricter voting laws, liberal ones are working to make it easier to vote. On Thursday, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed a law
that automatically registers citizens to vote-when they sign up for a driver's license or state ID, Missouri Republicans might archly note. Vermont is the latest in a string of states
to adopt automatic voter registration. It's a sign of how polarized the U.S. has become that in a nation founded on the premise of democracy that red and blue states increasingly are so divided even on that fundamental right.


SL: ICYMI: Buzzfeed: Trump Ally Roger Stone Admits That Trump Posed As His Own PR Man
On Friday, Donald Trump flatly denied that his voice was the one found
on tapes of conversations with a publicist named "John Miller." Trump said was not pretending to be his own publicist on multiple occasions during dealings with reporters over the past three decades.
Now, his longtime political advisor, Roger Stone, has said that Trump did, in fact, impersonate publicists on a routine basis.
See the full article
below.
Trump Ally Roger Stone Admits That Trump Posed As His Own PR Man
By Nathan McDermott // Buzzfeed News
Roger Stone, a longtime political ally and former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, admitted on Saturday that Trump posed as his own publicist in the early 1990s, likening Trump's actions to the Founding Fathers.
On Friday, The Washington Post published
audio of a 1991 interview between a People magazine reporter and a man who identified as John Miller. The Post and other outlets identified Miller as actually being Trump, but in an interview
on Today, Trump denied the accusation.
Stone, who was on Breitbart
radio on Saturday, dismissed the story, but admitted Trump posed as his own PR man.
"They focus on whether or not Donald Trump may or may not have posed as a public relations man in order to get his spin and his side of the story," Stone said of theWashington Post story, "This is ridiculous. James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton - they all wrote under pseudonyms, they all had things they wanted to say, and they wrote under pseudonyms."
"Trump wanted to get his spin and his side of the story, so he handled the press call himself, probably because he didn't want to pay a public relations expert. What difference does it make?"
Stone added that there are more important stories for the media to cover, such as Hillary Clinton's role in the death of four Americans in Benghazi or her ongoing email scandal.


Patrice/Courtney?
Can we confirm these numbers?
From: Cole, Todd (NBCUniversal)
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 2:28 PM
To: DNC Press
Subject: Open primary inquiry
Afternoon,
Just spoke with a member of your team who suggested I send over the following numbers for confirmation.
Out of the open primary contests (caucuses and primaries) Hillary Clinton has won 10/14. And Bernie Sanders has won 4/14
If at all possible, would love confirmation by 4pm. Thanks so much
Todd Cole
Producer, All In w/Chris Hayes
Office: 212-664-5969
Cell: 213-327-7337


Hi Savannah, it was great seeing you Saturday. l Just wanted to follow to see if you guys were interested in having DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz on tomorrow morning on Today.
Thanks, and hope you got some rest after this crazy weekend, - Luis.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 12:52 PM
To: 'Savannah.Guthrie@nbcuni.com'
Subject: DNC Chair next Tuesday?
Hi Savannah, hope you're well. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be in New York next Tuesday and I wanted to see if you guys would be interested in having her on for Today. Let me know what you think.
Best regards, - Luis.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


Thanks!


Sarge slacked but a couple flags below for if/when a new super PAC is created because they would probably be breaking the law
Trump aides' rivalries plague super PACs
The power struggle inside Donald Trump's presidential campaign is spilling over into the world of his super PAC allies, freezing wealthy supporters who want to write big checks to boost the presumptive GOP nominee over likely Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.
Top Trump adviser Paul Manafort has privately expressed support for a yet-to-be-launched super PAC that would be affiliated with a close friend of the billionaire. Multiple sources familiar with the matter said Manafort's allies hope the PAC will become the favored vehicle for huge checks from mega-donors like Las Vegas casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who is believed to be considering spending as much as $100 million boosting Trump.
But the sources said that Manafort's chief internal rival, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who is close to Adelson's advisers, is not on board with the plan for the new PAC. And they suggest that if Lewandowski doesn't like the set-up, he may signal his support for a totally different outside spending vehicle - possibly one that hasn't even been created yet.
An adviser to Adelson, whose donations are being closely watched as a bellwether to other donors, told POLITICO "we are not anywhere near a decision on who will receive money or how much we will give." Adelson will make his own decision independent of Trump campaign aides' signals, the adviser said.
Neither Manafort, Lewandowski, nor the Trump campaign responded to requests for comment about the lack of clear signals from the campaign about a preferred super PAC.
Trump allies fear that continued confusion could cripple their slow-starting big-money fundraising effort, which has been plagued by infighting. It's an especially acute problem for Trump, since he eschewed fundraising and openly antagonized the GOP donor class during his mostly self-funded primary campaign, allowing Clinton and her allies to build a massive cash advantage using a quartet of super PACs working closely together to fill well-defined roles.
The four main super PACs devoted to Clinton have combined to raise $89 million from the beginning of last year through the end of March, the period covered by the most recent FEC filings. And the leading pro-Clinton super PAC, Priorities USA Action, has already reserved $90 million in television ad time in key swing states for tough general election ads against Trump.
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Trump wins Oregon Republican primary
By KATIE GLUECK
By contrast, more than two dozen mostly unauthorized outside groups that claim to support Trump have raised a total of $3.7 million this cycle, but only six of the groups have actually bought ads supporting Trump. And because Trump had disavowed all super PACs until recently, his advisers haven't given donors much indication about which, if any, outside groups they prefer.
One of the few pro-Trump super PACs to gain any momentum, Great America PAC, was seen within GOP finance circles as having a tacit blessing from Lewandowski. While the group had struggled to raise cash and was $690,000 in the red at the end of March, it had begun establishing itself in recent weeks as the leading vehicle in a growing field of pro-Trump super PACs that features many entrants using the candidate's name to raise money while spending little in support of his campaign.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is scheduled to participate in a donor conference call for Great America PAC on Wednesday, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO, and the group announced a donor retreat at the ranch of billionaire Texas energy investor T. Boone Pickens.
But as Great America PAC has gained credibility and started winning support from key donors, Manafort's allies have stepped up their attacks on it as a scam, and some have expressed support for competing groups, including one launched last week called the Committee to Restore American Sovereignty.
The PACs that legitimately want to help Trump need to figure out a way to work together, or they will end up squandering cash on competing efforts, warned the influential GOP mega-donor Stanley S. Hubbard. The Minnesota broadcasting billionaire this month joined the advisory committee of Great America PAC, and on Tuesday he told POLITICO that he had written a six-figure check to the group. He added that he was open to giving more, but said he would not give to other pro-Trump super PACs.
"If they call me, they're wasting their time, because one is enough. Too many cooks in the kitchen ruin the stew," he said, suggesting that the super PAC competition is less about tactics and more about personality. "What you have to do is keep ego out of it. I think ego creeps into too many things."
Any attempts to create clarity in the super PAC derby - and to shut down scammers who are raising money off of Trump - are complicated by federal election rules barring super PACs and other big-money groups from coordinating with candidates and their campaigns or party committees.
A Trump campaign official said uncertainty about the universe of pro-Trump PACs and the "dark figures involved" is deterring major donors who previously supported Trump's vanquished GOP presidential rivals including Chris Christie, Jeb Bush and John Kasich. "They're all waiting for the right vehicle," said the official. "The fact of the matter is that we just have a hodgepodge. Nobody's eager to throw their money down a rat hole."
The official suggested that this problem could be solved by the entrance of a super PAC blessed by Manafort and affiliated with California real estate billionaire named Thomas Barrack. A close ally of Trump's, Barrack has had discussions with Manafort and others about becoming involved in a new super PAC, according to sources in and around the campaign.
Barrack, who has praised the presumptive GOP nominee's "charm and emotional intelligence" and is set to host a fundraiser for Trump this month in Los Angeles, was traveling internationally Tuesday and could not be reached for comment.
The Trump campaign official added: "Tom Barrack is one of Trump's friends and there's a lot of concerns about fingers that are in these pies . . . Nobody trusts anybody in these non-affiliated groups and Trump trusts Barrack implicitly."
But even if Barrack - who has not previously been a major donor, scattering $67,000 among Democratic and Republican campaigns over the years - puts his full weight into an outside spending effort that has Manafort's blessing, some Trump allies fear that may not quash the rivalries between the super PACs, which reflect deep personal tensions. Beyond the Manafort-Leandowski rift, Manafort and his allies have a tricky decades-long history with the leaders of Great America PAC and the Committee to Restore American Sovereignty.
During Ronald Reagan's 1984 reelection campaign, Manafort and his close ally Roger Stone worked together, sometimes uneasily, with Ed Rollins, the co-chairman of Great America PAC, and Doug Watts, the national executive director of the Committee to Restore American Sovereignty.
Stone's ex-wife Ann Stone also has discussed launching a super PAC that will work to win over women to vote for Trump, a source familiar with the effort told POLITICO. The source said Stone is working with Amy Kremer, who formerly was associated with Great America, and Kathryn Serkes, and that they have suggested their effort has an unofficial blessing from Trump's campaign.
Ann Stone, Kremer and Serkes did not respond to requests for comment, nor did a Trump campaign spokesperson.
After Watts announced the creation of his super PAC, Rollins pushed back, releasing a statement this week predicting that his Great America PAC will be "the best-funded, most effective independent committee supporting Trump's candidacy."
Roger Stone lashed back, calling Great America a "scam PAC," and pointing out that one of its advisers was convicted of a campaign finance violation this month, while Rollins had worked as an adviser to a firm started by a former Bill Clinton aide.
But Eric Beach, Great America's co-chairman, pointed to Trump's praise of Rollins as "tremendous" earlier this month as a sign that the businessman views the group favorably, while the mega-donor Hubbard said having Rollins on board is a selling point. "He's certainly had a lot of experience."
A Rollins ally suggested that Stone helped create the Committee to Restore American Sovereignty as a way to undermine Great America PAC. And Rollins himself suggested that Stone is obsessed with him, asserting "I don't spend my life tracking Roger Stone. He may spend his life tracking me but I don't spend my life tracking him."
Stone did not directly respond to questions about his role in the Committee to Restore American Sovereignty, but he did say he planned to contribute $1,000 to the group, and he questioned the depth of Rollins' commitment to Trump. Rollins will "end up attacking Trump," Stone predicted.
Watts laughed off the suggestion that Stone had put him up to creating the PAC as a means of undermining Rollins. "Ed and I are friends of 40 years and were business partners for a few year so I wouldn't do something that was predicated on that basis," Watts said. "Both Ed and Roger have had an obsession with one another over the years. I'm not sure what the genesis is but it has a life of its own."
Watts countered that his PAC's fundraising approach was superior to Great America's. "They're already in debt and I have no idea what their designs are," he said.
But he also said there was room for multiple pro-Trump outside groups and that Barrack's group could be a positive addition to the crowded space. "Three to five super PACs in support of the same candidacy is not a bad thing. It means you have a wider net that you're casting for contributions," Watts said. "So I welcome it, sure."


Calling Ivonne.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 16, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Paustenbach, Mark
> wrote:
Thanks.
Adding Pablo.
Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
paustenbachm@dnc.org
On May 16, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Price, Jenna
> wrote:
Flagging this for everyone.
From: Ivonne Gonzalez Vela
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 9:22 AM
To: DNC Press
Subject: Interview Request at W radio - DNC speaker
Dear Press Team,
My name is Ivonne Vela and I am producer for W Radio News Station (the biggest radio station for the Hispanic audience in the U.S. (Florida, NY and Washington) and the leader among this group globally: Europe and Latin america).
We would like to invite a speaker from the Democratic Party from Oregon or Kentucky to speak about the primary that will take place tomorrow in these states.
We would love to schedule a short, 5 to 10 minute phone interview for our morning show which airs Monday to Friday from 6am-12pm EST.
You may find more about W Radio at the end of this email, as well as some of the interviews that we have done to renowned personalities such as President Barak Obama, presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, former presidents Nelson Mandela, and Bill Clinton, actress Cate Blanchett, Oscar nominee director Lenny Abrahamson, Grammy winner Megan Trainor, music legend Gloria Gaynor, innovator John McAfee, Virgin mobile creator Richard Branson.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Thank you,
Ivonne Vela
US Producer
W RADIO COLOMBIA
2100 CORAL WAY SUITE 200 MIAMI, FL
Office/Oficina: : + 1 (305) 285 1260 - Mobile/Celular: + 1 (786) 503 5704
Twitter: @IvonneVela
www.wradio.com.co
ABOUT W RADIO
W Radio News Station, part of Prisa Group (owner of Spain's most important newspaper El Pais and co owner of France's Le Monde; television stations such as Canal+; and present in different countries such as the U.S. with three stations: W Radio 690 am in the Los Angeles area, Caracol 1260 in the tri state area and WPTA in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area; Panamá, through Radio Panamá;  Argentina with Radio Continental; Chile with ADN Radio Chile; Costa Rica, with ADN Costa Rica; Mexico through W Radio México; Spain through number 1 radio station Cadena SER; and Colombia through our two systems Caracol Radio and W Radio. Combined, our Spanish speaking listener base extends to more than 20 million people worldwide.
ABOUT JULIO SÁNCHEZ CRISTO
Our host and director, Julio Sanchez Cristo has won the King Award in Spain twice for
his successful and prestigious career in the Spanish speaking radio market:

In total, he has won more than 50 journalism awards for his achievements, exclusive
interviews and special coverage’s.
SOME OF OUR INTERVIEWS:
Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
Julian Assange
Nelson Mandela
Francois Hollande
Nick Clegg
John Kirby, Pentagon spokesperson
Hillary Clinton
--
Ivonne Vela
Journalist | Producer | Radio & TV host | Actress
WRadio.com.co
| MiamiDiario.com
Miami, EEUU
Mobile +1 786 503 5704
Office + 305 858 1608
Tw & IG: @IvonneVela
ivonnevela@icloud.com
"Nous savons, du reste, que toutes choses concourent au bien de ceux qui aiment Dieu". Romains 8:28


All calls are scheduled btwn 1 - 3 tmrw except one of DWS' appointments.
- TP
On May 21, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Patrice Taylor
> wrote:
All,
Please review and makes sure I incorporated everything we discussed. Leah is briefing the Chair and will circle back and let us know any changes.
Thanks,
Patrice
Saturday May 21
LDD- Update DWS on updated call plan; once confirmed, LDD and PT will divide calls once plan is approved by DWS
-Staff to begin notification calls
Finalize Public Affairs Guidance – AP/DS
*   Talking Points
*   Q&A
Finalize Press Release -get quotes from DWS, Cummings  etc.- AP/DS
Connect with Cummings staff to update and get time to connect with Cummings –PT/DS
Identify and Secure Validators
-Tom McMahon
-Elaine Kamarck
-Don Fowler
-Paul Kirk
Sunday May 22
Drafting Committee Member Notification calls-LDD & Staff
Prep Cummings- DS
Lock In Preview/Launch Story Reporter – AP/DS
*   Recommendation: Anne Geran- Washington Post
Monday May 23
Finalize Drafting Member notification calls-LDD & Staff
Campaigns, Leadership and  DNC Notification calls (REID, NP, JEC, officers, etc)-LDD & Staff
Preview / Launch story runs in print in Washington Post
Press Release announcing Drafting Committee Members goes out - DNCC
Cummings on TV in afternoon
Tuesday May 24
Announce public participation component of process- DNCC


Well to that I say "lolz!"
Sent via the Samsung GALAXY S®4, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone
-------- Original message --------
From: hrtsleeve@gmail.com
Date: 05/18/2016 20:38 (GMT-05:00)
To: "Paustenbach, Mark"
Cc: "Miranda, Luis"
Subject: Re: NY Times - Bernie Sanders’s Defiance Strains Ties With Top Democrats
Btw, Nancy Cordes had the most puzzled look on her face when she asked me to respond to Weaver saying I had been throwing shade at Sanders. I said, well, my response to that is #SMH. She paused for a second and looked very confused. 😂😂
DWS
On May 18, 2016, at 8:15 PM, Paustenbach, Mark
> wrote:
Bernie Sanders’s Defiance Strains Ties With Top Democrats
New York Times
By JEREMY W. PETERS and ALAN RAPPEPORT
MAY 18, 2016
WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders
’s relationship with the leadership of the Democratic Party and his colleagues on Capitol Hill was strained further on Wednesday as he and his campaign remained defiant over the way they say his success is being belittled and undermined by people in the party who are loyal toHillary Clinton
.
Whatever tolerance Democrats have for Mr. Sanders’s continuing his increasingly long-shot presidential bid was quickly evaporating, with some of his closest allies in the party suggesting his efforts to rein in his most unruly supporters was half-hearted.
“Bernie and I have known each other for a long time,” said Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the minority leader and one of Mr. Sanders’ best friends in the Senate. “And I believe he is better than this.”
Vice President Joe Biden also weighed in, saying that while Mr. Sanders is “a good guy,” he needed “to be more aggressive in speaking out.”
The dispute centered around the Democratic state convention in Nevada over the weekend in which Mr. Sanders was denied the delegates he thought he had earned, a development that infuriated his supporters there and led some to throw chairs and later threaten the state party chairwoman.
The Democratic Party of Nevada pushed back against the Sanders campaign’s criticism that the process wrongly deprived him of delegates, saying that “simple math” dictated the outcome and that Mr. Sanders was simply outnumbered. “Bernie Sanders’s campaign was not organized,” the party said in a statement, noting that nearly 500 of his seats at the convention were vacant because his supporters had failed to show up.
National party leaders, such as the Democratic National Committee
chairwoman,Debbie Wasserman Schultz
, have also criticized how Mr. Sanders has handled the unrest in Nevada, adding to the frustration within his campaign.
Mr. Sanders’s campaign manager took to cable news on Wednesday to assail the party and Ms. Schultz.
“The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, it is clear almost from the get-go she has been working against Bernie Sanders — there’s no doubt about it, for personal reasons,” Jeff Weaver, Mr. Sanders’s campaign manager, said of Ms. Wasserman Schultz on MSNBC. “She has been the divider and not really provided leadership that the Democratic Party needs,” Mr. Weaver added.
Nowhere has the strain in the Democratic Party been more evident lately than in Mr. Sanders’s relationship with Mr. Reid. Few members of the Senate are closer to Mr. Sanders than Mr. Reid, who had tried to head off any confrontation by speaking personally with Mr. Sanders on Friday to stress the importance of not letting the state convention devolve into a messy fight over a handful of delegates.
“If you want the two damn delegates, you can have them,” Mr. Reid told Mr. Sanders, according to someone with firsthand knowledge of the discussions between the two senators. Though Mr. Reid has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, he has said that he believes Mr. Sanders has earned a right to remain in the race.
After the convention went awry, Mr. Reid and Mr. Sanders spoke again on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Reid expressed dismay that Mr. Sanders’s supporters had acted so belligerently. A member of his own staff was at the convention and feared for her own safety, Mr. Reid said. He also said that the way Sanders supporters had been harassing Roberta Lange, the state party chairwoman — filling her voice mail with threatening, obscene messages and showing up at her Las Vegas restaurant in protest — was over the line.
Mr. Sanders said he agreed and believed that the violence should be condemned. But when he released his statement on Tuesday night, which made only a passing reference to the violence at the convention, a perplexed Mr. Reid told his staff that he thought the gesture was “silly” and beneath Mr. Sanders, according to the person who spoke with Mr. Reid.
The two senators have not spoken since.
Mr. Sanders appeared to be taken somewhat by surprise at the way the Nevada melee was being portrayed, and how negatively it was reflecting on his campaign.
Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, Mr. Sanders’s lone endorser in the Senate, said in an interview that he had spoken with Mr. Sanders on Wednesday and that Mr. Sanders was forceful in his condemnation of the violence.
“He wants to make sure that everyone who asks the question knows the answer: that he 100 percent rejects that type of conduct,” Mr. Merkley said. “We have to step forward and say, totally unacceptable,” he added. “That is the exact opposite of what Trump did. Trump basically embraced violence, encouraged violence. That is a different story. That is the Republican story.”
Mr. Merkley said Mr. Sanders remained committed to staying in the race. Turning the pleas of party unity that some Democrats are making around, Mr. Merkley said that the rift in the party would only deepen if Mr. Sanders was driven from the race now.
“One of the reasons it is so important for him to stay in this race is that when we go to the convention and we’re building the bridge that brings everyone together, people have to feel like they were heard, that they were respected,” Mr. Merkley said.
“You can’t say to them, ‘Hey, we don’t want to hear your views,’ and shut the door on them, and then a month later open the door and say, ‘Hey, can you come in and help us out?’” he added. “He fully intends to go forward.”


Attached is the letter from the state
Party


Hi team-
Tracie and Matt Butler are hosting a meeting for the House Democratic Chiefs of Staff to discuss the upcoming convention. Tracie needs Ryan and either Luis or Mark to attend this meeting on Monday, May 9th from 11:30am - 1:30pm.
Rachel- please let me know if either Luis or Mark can attend.
Ryan- please let me know if this works with your travel schedule.
Thanks,
Liana
Liana A. Guerra
Special Projects Manager | Special Assistant to the Chair's Chief of Staff
Democratic National Committee
430 S. Capitol Street, SE | Washington , DC 20003
202-863-8093 (office) | GuerraL@dnc.org
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Outgoing call to +1 (202) 863-8053 (Other)
+1 (202) 863-8053
Other:  +1 (202) 863-8053
Microsoft Lync


perfect
-----Original Message-----
From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 11:00 AM
To: Schultz, Eric H. EOP/WHO; Friedman, Jennifer B. EOP/WHO
Subject: FW: Hi Luis -- CNN Q
Hi gang, want us to be assertive on this one? In the past I've said something like:
"We're not going to get into specifics beyond telling you that the President's voice will be particularly powerful in light of the progress we've made over the last seven years. He's an effective messenger to remind voters of how far we've come, of where we were when George W. Bush left office losing 800,000 jobs a month, with too many Americans losing their homes and savings."
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Liptak, Kevin
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 9:47 AM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Re: Hi Luis -- CNN Q
Hey Luis -- hope you're well. Wanted to touch base again to see what more you can say on President Obama's role going forward in the presidential race -- even though the nomination process is still ongoing, are there places/areas you guys see him playing a major role? How eager are Democrats to get him out on the trail?
Thanks
Kevin
--
Kevin Liptak
CNN White House Producer
202-695-0963 (c)
202-898-7666 (o)


Trump on Fox Biz:
Paul Ryan meeting?
-          Meeting Thursday
-          HRC will be a disaster
-          Others didn’t honor the pledge
Tax plan and minimum wage?
-          Misrepresented on NBC
-          Tax plan was not a policy, it was a proposal
-          Massive tax decrease
-          May have to raise taxes on wealthy in negotiation above what’s in the plan
Bonds and debt:
-          Comments were misinterpreted
-          We print money, so we don’t have to worry about that
-          Buy back at discount
Social security
-          Waste, fraud, and abuse
Minimum wage?
-          “On the minimum wage I would like to leave it to the state because frankly every state is different. Every state has a different cost of living and I would like to leave it to the states. $7.25 is pretty tough. As far as I'm concerned, I could see something happening there.”
-          States have to compete
NY $15 minimum wage?
-          NY has higher cost of living
No answer on VP
From: Bhatnagar, Akshai
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 8:05 AM
To: Kauffman, Nathan; Comm_D
Subject: RE: Video request: Donald J. Trump on fox business at 7:30
Watch here
From: Kauffman, Nathan
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 7:34 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Video request: Donald J. Trump on fox business at 7:30
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Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump
)
5/9/16, 1:33 PM
Will be interviewed by @MariaBartiromo
on @FoxBizAlert
at 7:30 A.M. Enjoy!
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May 10, 2016
Contact: Drew Hammill/Evangeline George
202-226-7616
*** Media Advisory ***
House Democrats to Hold Steering & Policy Committee Hearing:
'The Zika Public Health Crisis: the Urgent Need for the President’s Emergency Funding Request'
Washington, D.C. – The House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, May 12 at 1:00 p.m. entitled “The Zika Public Health Crisis: the Urgent Need for the President’s Emergency Funding Request.”  Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats will hear testimony from public health experts and community leaders about the urgent need for Republicans in Congress to take action on a Zika emergency supplemental to fully meet the President’s funding request.  A list of witnesses and their biographies is attached.
WHO:
Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Co-Chair, Democratic Steering & Policy Committee
Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD), Co-Chair, Democratic Steering & Policy Committee
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Member, House Appropriations Committee
WITNESSES:
The Honorable Mitch Landrieu, Mayor, City of New Orleans, Louisiana
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control
WHAT:
Steering & Policy Committee Hearing: 'The Zika Public Health Crisis: the Urgent Need for the President’s Emergency Funding Request'
WHEN:
Thursday, May 12 at 1:00 p.m.
WHERE:
NOTE:
NOTE:
HVC-210
Capitol Visitor Center
The Capitol
Washington, D.C
Camera crews must RSVP to Taylor Griffin at taylor.griffin@mail.house.gov
.
The hearing will be live-streamed here
.
###
________________________________


For Immediate Release
May 20, 2016
Contact: DNC Press - 202-863-8148
Excerpts from DNC Press Call with Reps. Elizabeth Esty, Pete Aguilar, Brady Campaign President Dan Gross, and Gun Violence Prevention Advocates discussing Donald Trump at the NRA Leadership Forum
This morning, Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty, Congressman Pete Aguilar, Brady Campaign President Dan Gross, and gun violence prevention advocates held a conference call to discuss Donald Trump's appearance at the National Rifle Association Leadership Forum.
Below find excerpts as prepared for delivery.
Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty (CT-5)
Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut is in my district. I am sickened and horrified that in the three-and-a-half years since those shootings, nothing has been done to combat gun violence. I lay the blame on the NRA and the Members of Congress who are beholden to them.
Despite the fact that 90 percent of Americans supported action on gun reform after the Newtown tragedy, the NRA and their allies worked to defeat the bill by spreading rumors and falsehoods. Meanwhile, news of shootings across the country still dominate the headlines.
Both of our Democratic presidential candidates have proposed solutions to address this crisis, and President Obama's executive actions earlier this year addresses this crisis by expanding background checks,  effectively enforcing the laws already on the books, increasing mental health treatment, and funding research for gun safety technology.
Congressman Pete Aguilar (CA-31)
...
We have held so many moments of silence for those lost to gun violence. We have prayed for their families, and we have vowed to take steps so that this would never happen again. Our words are empty if our actions don't back them up.
No single reform could have stopped the tragedy that unfolded in San Bernardino, but that's not an excuse to ignore the need for a national discussion around gun safety.
...
I don't know how officials at the NRA or the Republican Party sleep at night, knowing that we can and should do more to protect our communities. There's an emptiness to our unanswered prayers for change when we don't take steps to work for the type of change that we want. I don't want to hold another moment of silence - I want Congress to work towards a sensible solution and I want the Republican Party to realize that they answer to the American public, not the NRA.
Dan Gross, President of the Brady Campaign
...As the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump has made gun violence in America a campaign trail punchline. In January, the front runner speculated that he could "stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody" without hurting his popularity.
...
Make no mistake: this presidential election represents a critical crossroads for this issue and for our collective safety. Lives are literally at stake. The choice between Democrats and Donald Trump will be a referendum on gun violence in America - and the result will make a big difference either helping to fight or fuel the problem.
...
As he prepares to address the National Rifle Association as today's keynote speaker, I challenge Donald Trump to stand by the 74% of NRA members who want expanded Brady background checks and I call on him to support Senator Schumer's recently introduced Brady Bill 2.0 that expands background checks to all gun sales.
Po Murray, Chair of the Newtown Action Alliance
I have lived in Sandy Hook for 17 years. I am a mother of 4 children, all graduates of Sandy Hook Elementary School. The shooter lived in my neighborhood. I lost my neighbors and our children's teachers. The entire community was and continues to be heartbroken. We made a promise to take action to end gun violence.
...
Donald Trump appeals to the worst elements in our country. If he were elected president, we should be afraid of the toxic combustion that could result from his hateful rhetoric plus his reckless views on guns.
...
It's crystal clear that Donald Trump stands with the NRA and the gun industry---not the families of Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Columbine or others impacted by gun violence. America will not be great without meaningful common sense gun measures. More and more American families are touched by gun violence every single day. We need the voters to elect a President who will prioritize and lead on the issue of gun violence prevention to make America safe again.
Tom Mauser, father of Columbine victim Daniel Mauser and spokesman for Colorado Ceasefire
What's most disturbing to me about Donald Trump is his view on background checks. At Columbine, where my son was killed, background checks were an important issue.
...
What are we going to do about the 33,000 plus gun deaths and 70,000 plus gun injuries that we suffer every year?
...
I'm looking forward to an election where we really put the question to him: why do you not support the 90 percent of Americans, Mr. Trump, that support stronger background checks?


Kasich is spending the day attending fundraisers in Maryland and Virginia, and will hold a press conference at 10:45 a.m. ET
at Dulles Airport in northern Virginia
On May 4, 2016, at 7:54 AM, Sorbie, Sean
> wrote:
According to NYT
What We’re Watching Today
•       Mr. Kasich, who is now the only other Republican in the race, even if he has limited campaign funds and fewer delegates than two former candidates, will hold a news conference in Washington.
Sean Sorbie
Tracking Coordinator
Democratic National Committee
(727) 458-8583


Part 1
Part 2
From: Hancock, Kayla
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 10:36 AM
To: Comm_D
Subject: Video request: Kasich on CNN
Now. H/t Lindsey


From: Dave Miranda
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 5:30 PM
To: Dave Miranda
Subject: Statement from NCDP Executive Director Kimberly Reynolds on DoJ's HB2 ruling
"Pat McCrory's discrimination law is now on the verge of costing North Carolina hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education funding, in addition to the thousands of jobs and tens of millions of dollars our state has already lost. It is time for McCrory to repeal HB2." - Kimberly Reynolds, Executive Director of the North Carolina Democratic Party
Dave Miranda
Communications Director
North Carolina Democratic Party
Email: dave@ncdp.org
Phone: 919.821.2777
Visit www.ncdp.org
to make a secure online contribution or mail contributions to PO Box 1926 Raleigh, NC 27602


Lindsey Reynolds | Chief Operating Officer
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direct: 202.863.7166| cell: 202.215.9864


Hi Ken, what's you deadline?
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC
From: Thomas, Kenneth
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 10:50 AM
To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: Sanders letter
Sanders campaign is releasing this letter; says the standing committees at the convention should reflect Clinton and Sanders' support in the primaries and caucuses. Says if the process is unfair or one-sided they'll mobilize for floor fights on the platform and rules.
Any comment/reaction to this?

Ken Thomas
National Political Reporter
The Associated Press
202-641-9543 (d)
202-365-2881 (m)
kthomas@ap.org
@KThomasDC
Gchat: kthomaswdc@gmail.com


I'm good
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:40 PM
To: Jefferson, Deshundra; Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Cc: Pratt Wiley; RR2
Subject: RE: Please read: My Vote, My Voice
All three member offices signed off on this so I have no substantive edits - just one add before Ted Cruz's name.
Research -anything wrong from a facty perspective?
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:21 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Cc: Pratt Wiley
Subject: RE: Please read: My Vote, My Voice
This is the final version of North Carolina op-ed:
Before H.B. 589 was signed into law, North Carolina had one of the strongest rates of voter participation in the nation. The regressive law rolled back the early voting period, eliminated same-day registration, and imposed restrictive photo ID requirements.
While we are disappointed the U.S. District Court upheld H.B. 589, we are hopeful the courts and the American people will ultimately see these laws for what they truly are - a cynical political ploy to make it harder for women, people of color, students, the elderly and working families to exercise their fundamental right to vote.
When regressive state legislatures like the one in North Carolina limit the ability of people to vote, we are hurting the low-wage workers with two jobs, the single mother who goes to work early each morning and picks up her children late at night, and the elderly widower without a car who relies on his adult children to get to the polls.
This purely partisan law was passed without any support from Democrats because its intent was clear from the very beginning - to systematically limit access to the polls in order to sway elections. Tellingly, the N.C. General Assembly waited until the U.S. Supreme Court had eliminated the pre-clearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act before advancing these discriminatory voter-suppression measures.
At the time this bill was passed, the North Carolina State Board of Elections identified only two instances of potential voter impersonation in a 14-year period. Senator Thom Tillis, then-North Carolina House Speaker, even acknowledged in an interview that fighting so-called voter fraud was not the primary reason for passing the bill.
Sadly, several other states have joined North Carolina in limiting individual's ability to vote.
In April, students at a Marquette University polling station in Wisconsin faced two-hour wait times just to cast a ballot. After the polls officially closed, a Wisconsin Republican Congressman bragged to a TV reporter that the state's restrictive photo ID law would help the GOP defeat Democrats in the fall.
In Texas, Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz recently filed an amicus brief in support of the state's restrictive photo ID law. He also led the fight as Texas Solicitor General to limit voter registration efforts in communities of color by vigorously defending a discriminatory law against a civil rights lawsuit.
While Democrats have gone to court in Arizona to reverse this culture of discrimination and disenfranchisement, Republicans are going to court to defend laws designed to decrease voter turnout because they believe that when fewer people vote, they have a better chance of winning. Make no mistake, this is part of a consistent and concerted effort by Republicans to silence voters who do not agree with their agenda.
We expect that these laws, like the one passed here in North Carolina, will ultimately be declared unconstitutional, and will continue the fight at the Congressional level to restore the critical protections of the Voting Rights Act.
-- CBC Chairman Representative G.K. Butterfield
-- Representative David Price
-- Representative Alma Adams
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:14 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: Please read: My Vote, My Voice
Please hold off. They have more edits coming.
From: Jefferson, Deshundra
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 4:55 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Walsh, Tom
Subject: Please read: My Vote, My Voice
Below is a LTE that I am submitting to The News & Observer on behalf of North Carolina's Democratic Congressional delegation. We are limited to 500 words.
North Carolina had one of the strongest rates of voter participation in the nation before H.B. 589 was signed into law. The law rolled back the early voting period, eliminated same-day registration, and imposed restrictive photo ID requirements.
While we are disappointed the U.S. District Court upheld H.B. 589, we are hopeful the courts and the American people will ultimately see these laws for what they truly are - a cynical political ploy to make it harder for women, people of color, students, the elderly and working families to cast a ballot. These groups of voters are the majority of Americans and represent the Democrat's core constituency.
When we limit the ways that people can vote, we are hurting the low-wage workers with two jobs, the single mother who goes to work early each morning and picks up her children late at night, and the elderly widower without a car who relies on his adult children to get to the polls.
This purely partisan law was passed without any support from Democrats because its intent was clear from the very beginning - to systematically limit access to the polls in order to sway elections. Tellingly, the General Assembly waited until the U.S. Supreme Court had eliminated the pre-clearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act before advancing these discriminatory voter-suppression measures.
At the time this bill was passed, the North Carolina State Board of Elections identified only two instances of potential voter impersonation in a 14-year period. Senator Thom Tillis, then-North Carolina House Speaker, even acknowledged in an interview that fighting so-called voter fraud was not the primary reason for passing the bill.
Sadly, several other states have joined North Carolina in making it harder to cast a vote.
In April, students at a Marquette University polling station in Wisconsin faced two-hour wait times just to cast a ballot. After the polls officially closed, a Wisconsin Republican Congressman bragged to a TV reporter that the state's restrictive photo ID law would help the GOP defeat Democrats in the fall.
In Texas, Senator Ted Cruz recently filed an amicus brief in support of the state's restrictive photo ID law. He also led the fight as Texas Solicitor General to limit voter registration efforts in communities of color, vigorously defending a discriminatory law against a civil rights lawsuit.
While Democrats have gone to court in Arizona to reverse this culture of discrimination and disenfranchisement, Republicans are going to court to defend laws designed to decrease voter turnout because they believe that when fewer people vote, they have a better chance of winning. Make no mistake, this is part of a consistent and concerted effort by Republicans to silence voters who do not agree with their agenda.
We expect that these laws, like the one passed here in North Carolina, will ultimately be declared unconstitutional, and will continue the fight at the Congressional level to restore the critical protections of the Voting Rights Act.
-- CBC Chairman Representative G.K. Butterfield
-- Representative David Price
-- Representative Alma Adams
[SigDems]
Deshundra Jefferson, Southern Regional Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
JeffersonD@dnc.org
| (202) 863-8112


Nah send it as-is. The stuff at the bottom from Ralston is good and if we have to put up w some empty loserspeak from Ruth, so be it.
On Apr 28, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Lykins, Tyler
> wrote:
Great – just fixed a couple spacing issues.
Eric, were you still taking out some of the stuff at the bottom?
From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 9:48 AM
To: Palermo, Rachel; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Freundlich, Christina; Walsh, Tom
Cc: RR2
Subject: RE: ICYMI- The Hill: Hispanic voter registration spikes
Plus RR2. Highlighted pushback from Ruth Guerra but I like the stuff at the end so I say we just blast the whole thing.
From: Palermo, Rachel
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 9:42 AM
To: Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Freundlich, Christina; Walsh, Tom; Walker, Eric
Subject: ICYMI- The Hill: Hispanic voter registration spikes
Key points:
Registration among Hispanic voters is skyrocketing in a presidential election cycle dominated by Donald Trump
and loud GOP cries to close the border.
...
Still, rising registration rates among Hispanics in Colorado, Florida and Nevada could make it easier for the Democratic candidate to retain those swing states. Even Arizona could be in play, say some poll watchers.
Registration is a game-changer with Hispanic voters.
Only about 48 percent of eligible Hispanics vote, but nearly 80 percent of registered Hispanics go to the ballot box.
Hispanic voter registration spikes
THE HILL // RAFAEL BERNAL
Registration among Hispanic voters is skyrocketing in a presidential election cycle dominated by Donald Trump
and loud GOP cries to close the border.
Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Elected and Appointed Officials, projects 13.1 million Hispanics will vote nationwide in 2016, compared to 11.2 million in 2012 and 9.7 million in 2008.
Many of those new Hispanic voters are also expected to vote against Trump if he is the Republican nominee, something that appears much more likely after the front-runner’s sweeping primary victories Tuesday in five East Coast states.
A whopping 80 percent of respondents in a poll of registered Hispanic voters in Colorado and Nevada said Trump's views on immigration made them less likely to vote for Republicans in November. In Florida, that number was 68 percent.
The figures are sparking confident tones from Democrats, who think their party’s nominee will benefit from a huge advantage in the fall not only in the presidential race but also in battles for the House and Senate.
Because of the contrast between the GOP and Democratic fields, “we feel absolutely confident about our chances of electing Democrats up and down the ballot in November,” said Walter Garcia, western regional communication director for the Democratic National Committee.
Many of the newly registered Hispanic voters are in California and Texas, relatively safe states for Democrats and Republicans, respectively.
In fact, because so many Hispanic voters live in those states, the effect of the rising registration numbers will be somewhat undercut, according to Vargas.
Still, rising registration rates among Hispanics in Colorado, Florida and Nevada could make it easier for the Democratic candidate to retain those swing states. Even Arizona could be in play, say some poll watchers.
Registration is a game-changer with Hispanic voters.
Only about 48 percent of eligible Hispanics vote, but nearly 80 percent of registered Hispanics go to the ballot box.
Democrats have already targeted Colorado, Florida and Nevada with at least $15 million for Hispanic outreach, according to Vargas.
In Colorado, where 15 percent of eligible voters are Hispanic, the demographic has already shown its ability to flip elections.
The 2016 Colorado Democratic caucuses were one of the first big tests for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders
against rival Hillary Clinton
. With nearly 30,000 newly registered voters and strong support from Hispanic millennials, Sanders beat Clinton by more than 20,000 votes.
President Obama won 51.5 percent of the vote in Colorado in 2012, compared to 46 percent for GOP nominee Mitt Romney. In Nevada, Obama won 52 percent of the vote to Romney’s 46 percent.
Arizona has been a relatively safe state for Republicans in recent presidential elections, but Democrats have long wondered if they could make it competitive.
Romney won 53.5 percent of the vote there in 2012, Obama 44.5 percent.
David Lublin, professor of government at American University, describes Arizona as “the sort of state that if Clinton starts moving into landslide or big-win territory, she could win.”
Yet the real danger for Republicans could be down the ballot — particularly in the battle for the Senate, where longtime Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) could be a target.
Obama won 74 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012, according to exit polls by NBC.
A Democrat in 2016 would likely depend on larger Hispanic turnout and a larger share of the white vote to win the state.
Romney hurt himself with Hispanic voters in 2012 by suggesting that undocumented workers self-deport. He moved to the right on immigration and border security in the primary and was relatively quiet on the issue in the general election.
Both parties think Trump’s rhetoric, which has included insults directed at Mexicans and a plan to build a wall on the border and make Mexico pay for it, could be more difficult to overcome in a general election.
Trump has "motivated Latino voters," said Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.)
Immigration was shown by an America's Voice/Latino Decisions poll to be the primary issue driving Hispanics away from Republican candidates in 2016.
However, Hispanic voters nationally said the most important issue facing the country is the economy.
Ruth Guerra, Republican National Committee director of Hispanic media, gives little credence to the polls: “Not only is Latino Decisions on Hillary Clinton’s payroll, they have proven to be inaccurate time and again, so we will take their results in context.”
She also criticized Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, on immigration issues, accusing her of thinking Hispanics would have “amnesia.”
She noted that Clinton was opposed to giving drivers licenses to undocumented workers as a senator from New York but has now reversed her position.
“Clinton’s flip flops and hypocrisy on immigration are a mile long because she will tell voters anything to win an election,” Guerra said.
A win by a Democrat presidential candidate in Florida, Colorado and Nevada would make it very difficult for a GOP candidate to reach 270 electoral votes and win the White House.
In fact, Democrats could actually lose the swing state of Ohio but win Pennsylvania or Wisconsin and get to 270 — simply by holding other states that have voted for the Democratic nominee in presidential elections for the last six cycles.
Jon Ralston, a veteran Nevada political journalist who is not surprised by the numbers, said, “The real problem is that Trump, and, to a lesser degree, Cruz, will drive up Hispanic turnout against Republicans."
He said the only path for the GOP nominee to the White House in such a situation would be to win more white votes.
Ralston described this as “a path we have never seen before. Huge increase in white vote.”
If the numbers hold true, the electoral map becomes daunting for Republicans with the three states in question turned solid blue. Based on 270towin's 2016 toss-up map, Democrats would only have to win one of either Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia or North Carolina (or a more unlikely combination of only New Hampshire and Iowa) if the Hispanic vote does indeed deliver Colorado, Florida and Nevada.
"It’s not a favorable situation among Latinos and it doesn’t seem like Republicans will be able to make it up among white voters," said Lublin.


Hi Tom, Sam MCabe is going to speak at a Microsoft panel next week that is open press. He has his core tech/data file talking points, but we need to give him some of the general points on the following. Can you please flesh it out for him with our stock language? Thanks.
*         DVTF --- national voter file
*         Investing in states and infrastructure
*         Confident we'll be united, and both of our candidates have been using our list... every door, every call
*         Trump won't rely on data, just earned media and large rallies:
o   Republicans have already buried their post-2012 autopsy report's calls for inclusiveness, so it's not surprising that Donald Trump is also dumping their efforts at data and analytics. Democrats are happy to maintain the substantial digital edge we've had in the last two presidential elections, and we're going to continue to build on our ability to engage and understand voters. Remember that Hillary Clinton has earned 2 million more votes than Trump, and Bernie Sanders earned more votes than Ted Cruz and John Kasich through last week's primaries, so we won't argue with Mr. Trump's strategy.
And Q&A for what NOT to talk about:
*         Primary on Dem side --- other than to say we're working with both of our campaigns and have always been neutral.
*         Lawsuit: It has been dismissed, there's nothing to add beyond the official statements our senior staff made.
*         Data integrity post December incident:
o   We've moved past it and working well with both of our campaigns. AND campaigns up and down the ballot. All of that is feeding into our modeling heading into the general election, which gives us a big advantage over the GOP, who have not been using the same list, don't have agreements with all the states, and have had a fragmented approach to the interfaces their campaigns have used.
*         But what about the separate October incident the Sanders camp had flagged?
o   We're confident in the integrity of our system. Our data edge gave us....pivot.
Being taken over by presumptive nominee
*         We're working with both campaigns. Above my pay grade on the how and when, but because we're well integrated with both already, it should be seamless.
[SigDems]
Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org
- @MiraLuisDC


Please clip Gloria B. saying it's unprecedented for Trump to not have the support of former GOP nominees. Just happened @ 10:25.
> On May 3, 2016, at 10:23 PM, Bennett, Eric
wrote:
>
> Interview with Trump's son just aired.
>
>


Hi everyone,
Starting today, Luis would like all interviews from DWS, Mark, or Luis, to have YouTube Links tweeted out from @dncpress within 30 minutes of when the interviews air. To speed up this process, we would like YouTube links (on DNC clips) to be sent with the vantage link to comm_d in reply to the video request.
The title of the links can all be in this format:
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz on (NETWORK NAME) (SHOW NAME)
DNC National Press Secretary Mark Paustenbach on (NETWORK NAME) (SHOW NAME)
DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda on (NETWORK NAME) (SHOW NAME)
After I receive the links, I will send them around to the twitter approval chain.
Please chat with Luis if you have questions. Thanks! I really appreciate it.
Rachel
--
[DNC]
Rachel Palermo
Democratic National Committee
PalermoR@dnc.org
202-863-8041