Subject: Re: DRAFT Platform Drafting Release
From: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 19:46:32 -0700

Why include the PLEO stuff at the bottom?

Otherwise good.

Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

On May 3, 2016, at 10:44 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Below is the draft of a release to send tomorrow morning that the Chair asked us to prepare. Is there anyone else we need to loop in at this stage? And what do we need to change or add?

For Immediate Release
May 4, 2016

Contact: DNC Press – 202-863-8148

DNC Announces Platform Drafting Committee Process

WASHINGTON – DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda issued the following statement today on the process for appointing members to the Platform Drafting subcommittee:

“In preparation for the Democratic Convention to be held in Philadelphia in July, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair will appoint the fifteen members of the Platform Drafting subcommittee, including the subcommittee’s Chair, by May 13th. Because of the proximity of the July convention, now less than 90 days away, the DNC Chair has offered both of our candidates the opportunity to submit names by May 9th, from which she will select and appoint four (4) representatives from each campaign to the subcommittee.

“Because the Party’s platform is a statement of our values, the DNC is committed to an open, inclusive and representative process, one in which both of our campaigns are represented on the Platform Drafting subcommittee. As the Party did in 2008 and 2012, we will also ensure that the general public has opportunities to participate. Democrats know that we’re stronger when more voices are heard, and when we stand together to move our country forward, and we’ve made that a priority for our convention.

“In addition to the Platform Drafting subcommittee, in January the DNC Executive Committee ratified the Chair’s 2016 Party Leader and Elected Official Member appointments to the Convention Standing Committees: Credentials, Platform, and Rules. DNC rules provide for the Chair to appoint 75 Party Leader and Elected Official Members to the three Convention Standing Committees.  These Party Leader Members serve in addition to, and together with, the over 160 members that are elected from each and every state and territory to those same committees. The bulk of the Standing Committee members are delegates elected from the states and territories during the delegate selection process, which will continue through June 15th.”

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<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 – [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC>