Subject: Fwd: anti-LGBT house measure
From: "Banfill, Ryan" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 10:33:40 -0700

I like it. Can we get a statement worked up?

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From: "Helmstetter, TJ" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: May 19, 2016 at 12:42:42 PM EDT
To: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, "Banfill, Ryan" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>, "Walsh, Tom" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Subject: RE: anti-LGBT house measure

Here is Pelosi statement. Can we work up something from chair?

Pelosi Statement on Republicans' Abuse of Regular Order to

Ensure Anti-LGBT Discrimination

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on the improper conduct of House Republicans holding a vote open in order to force Republican Members to change their votes and defeat an amendment to uphold President Obama’s historic executive order banning anti-LGBT discrimination by federal contractors:

“House Republicans are so committed to discriminating against LGBT Americans, that they broke regular order to force their Members to reverse their votes and support Republicans’ bigotry.

“Evidently Speaker Ryan’s promises of regular order mean nothing, when regular order means a majority of the House standing up to protect LGBT Americans from bigotry.

“House Republicans’ outrageous and cowardly actions today utterly expose the reality of their hateful agenda.  The American people will not forget how hard Republicans worked to target LGBT Americans for discrimination.”

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From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 12:42 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; Garcia, Walter; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Banfill, Ryan; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: anti-LGBT house measure

Agree we can do something from this building

From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 12:41 PM
To: Garcia, Walter; Walker, Eric; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Banfill, Ryan; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: anti-LGBT house measure

K but I still think we need to do something from this building
Fellas?

From: Garcia, Walter
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 12:40 PM
To: Walker, Eric; Helmstetter, TJ; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Banfill, Ryan; Walsh, Tom
Subject: RE: anti-LGBT house measure

Got it.

From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 12:33 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; Paustenbach, Mark; Miranda, Luis; Banfill, Ryan; Walsh, Tom; Garcia, Walter
Subject: RE: anti-LGBT house measure

Amen. Adding Walter since there were a lot of cali members – Issa, Denham, Walters, Valadao. Walter please work with Mike at CA Dems on this.

@Drew_Hammill<https://twitter.com/Drew_Hammill>
Here's a list of the Republicans we believe changed their vote on the Maloney amdt: Issa Denham Walden Walters Young (IA) Poliquin Valadao

From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 12:29 PM
To: Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric; Miranda, Luis; Banfill, Ryan; Walsh, Tom
Subject: anti-LGBT house measure

Something anti-LGBT just happened in the House moments ago, reporters are tweeting it. Republicans defeated an amendment offered by Sean Maloney that would have stripped anti-LGBT language out of the NDAA. It was going to pass and then a few Republicans actually switched their vote to make it lose. Apparently Democrats hissed “Shame on you” on the House floor.

I think we need to put out a short statement chiding them. Copying Ryan because I would imagine that DWS congressional side knows more about this and may already be working on something. Can we make this a chair statement?

TJ Helmstetter
Deputy Director of Regional and Specialty Media
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8022 – desk
973.464.9224 – cell
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