Subject: FOR BLOOMBERG---
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>, "Banfill, Ryan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 13:46:00 -0700

Here are bullets to review with DWS for Bloomberg:

*         The suggestion there's anything unusual about our joint victory funds has no basis in the law or reality, as recognized by numerous independent experts that have looked at this.

*         We signed on to similar agreements with both campaigns and encourage both to identify opportunities to support the national and state Democratic parties now so that we can continue to build the infrastructure to help elect Democrats up and down the ballot in November.

*         That's what these funds are about, building the infrastructure for the general election.
If follow up...

*         We've had similar funds with our campaigns in 2004, 2008 and 2012. And the money DOES in fact help state parties. The funds help strengthen, for example, our national voter file and communications, research and digital support for state parties and down ballot candidates, including training. This is helping the Party right NOW to build the infrastructure we need for the general election.

*         And the fact is Politico got it wrong. Their claim that state parties only get to keep 1 percent of all the money being raised is false. Many millions have been raised for state parties that just haven't been distributed to them yet (nor anywhere else including the DNC) because it's money for the general election, and coordinated campaigns are just now starting to be built at state parties.

o   Of course not all of the money intended for state parties has been distributed yet. Again, the coordinated campaigns for the general election are just now starting to be built at the state parties.
If asked...
But the money is being earmarked, or the Clinton campaign is benefitting from state party fundraising, isn't it?

*         No. Let's be clear, neither the DNC nor state parties are subsidizing fundraising through these committees for either campaign. For whatever each campaign raises under the agreement that then goes to their campaign, that campaign pays a directly proportional amount for the cost of that fundraising.

*         And the money we're raising isn't earmarked for either campaign, it's going to build infrastructure, and eventually more and more will be sent to state parties to fund the coordinated campaigns that are now beginning to be built in the states.

[SigDems]<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>