Subject: Re: Do we have TPs on standing committee appointments
From: "Helmstetter, TJ" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 11:16:06 -0700

Thanks. Tate is a good person to use if we want to inject something more pointed in defense of DWS/DNC from a well respected former chair. So let me know if you want to give him anything else to say.

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On May 9, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Because the Party’s platform is a statement of our values, the DNC is committed to an open, inclusive and representative process. Both of our campaigns will be represented on the Drafting committee, and just as we did in 2008 and 2012, the public will have opportunities to participate.

FOR BACKGROUND

The rules governing our process for appointments to convention standing committees were established in 2014 long before any candidates declared and follow the same process that have governed these appointments for many cycles.  The co-chairs of all of the committees and the At-Large members were elected by the DNC Executive Committee members in January 2016. That meeting was open to the public and all of the campaigns were participants in that process.

The overwhelming remainder (87%) of the Standing Committee membership is elected by each state’s National Convention Delegates after being nominating by the presidential campaigns, proportional to each campaign’s percentage of the state wide vote.

The Platform drafting committee is a subcommittee of the larger platform committee. Those members have not yet been named but the appointments will be made in consultation with both campaigns, as has been the case in past cycles.  Both campaigns are fully aware of our process.

<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>

From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 2:08 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Walker, Eric
Subject: Do we have TPs on standing committee appointments

Mike Tate, the former Wisconsin Party Chair, and a Rules Committee appointee, is being approached by Daniel Strauss for a story following up on the letter.

Thanks

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