Subject: RE: Adrian Carrasquillo
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: "Manriquez, Pablo" <[email-masked]>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>, "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 17:12:59 -0700

All but that there needs to be an adult in the room. I have talked to him plenty.

[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
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From: Manriquez, Pablo
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 8:11 PM
To: Walker, Eric
Cc: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark; Garcia, Walter
Subject: Re: Adrian Carrasquillo

Versus the GOP? Not really…he typically shoots down any oppo we pitch, no matter how legit. Even Holly couldn’t gift him legit Hispanic scoops that diminished Rubio and Jeb and/or built us up. We’ve spoken candidly about this with him before. His beat is Hispanics. On a personal level, he’s convinced we’re full of shit when it comes to his beat. Some reasons why —

He’s got a universe of consultants we always say we’ll hire and never do who see him as their top media POC for venting their version of real talk. These are the core of his sourcing this election cycle.

The GOP establishment has more than double the number of Hispanics we do proportionally and more than that in real numbers. He tends to hang out with Hispanics when he’s made the rounds this cycle. Ergo he hangs out with them and not us. What do they talk about? Us supposedly being full of shit when it comes to Hispanics.

After petitioning us for a 18 months for our diversity numbers, for some genius reason we gave the scoop on Alida’s data request to Darren Sands who, looking out for his boy, let him co-write it into a hit piece.

He finds it amusing that Hispanics never get to talk on the record with him. That we seem to need “an adult in the room” as it were, to talk to Buzzfeed. GOP-side there are over a dozen reliable Latina operatives who pitch, staff, spox, selfie, follow-up quickly and attentively with their every request. He’s a hero over there.

To wit — to him, he has exactly zero reasons to play nice with us. Make sense?

On May 11, 2016, at 6:34 PM, Walker, Eric <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Does he EVER do this sort of shit about the republicans?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/latinos-struggle-to-compete-with-black-businesses-for-democr?utm_term=.lrRbQQoj3#.sr72VVd1x

Eric Walker
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Pablo Manriquez
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