Subject: Re: FEC complain rollout
From: Tariq Thowfeek <[email-masked]>
To: Manny Garcia <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>, "Freundlich, Christina" <[email-masked]>, "Crystal, Andy" <[email-masked]>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, Crystal Perkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:32:24 +0000

Morning all!
I've updated the media advisory document with the press call number: Dial Information : (563) 999-2090 / Access Code : 488122
Thanks! -T

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 7:21 PM, Manny Garcia [email-masked] wrote:
Thanks Walter!
Tariq has been traveling today, he'll shoot over conference call number when he
gets back this evening.
Will always take you up on remarks support. Working on first draft of remarks
will share you very late this evening, so you can take a glance first thing in
morn.
-EG

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Garcia, Walter < [email-masked] > wrote:
Texas Dems,
Let me know if you need any help setting up a press call number, with remarks,
etc. Happy to help!
From: "Freundlich, Christina" < [email-masked] >
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 8:20 PM
To: Manny Garcia < [email-masked] >, "Crystal, Andy" < [email-masked] >
Cc: " [email-masked] " < [email-masked] >, "Walker, Eric" < [email-masked] >, Crystal Perkins < [email-masked] >, Walter Garcia < [email-masked] >
Subject: Re: FEC complain rollout

I don't think so, will keep you posted.

Thanks everyone!

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:34 PM -0700, "Manny Garcia" < [email-masked] > wrote:

Okay great!
Christina, this is our final quote so that you can make it available to
Politico.
Attached is the complaint (just in case).
-Do you need anything else from us?
-EG
Texas Democratic Party Executive Director Crystal K. Perkins issued the
following statement:

“There's no other way to put it: Tea Party Republican Ted Cruz’s campaign broke
federal election campaign laws. Soliciting donations that exceed federal limits
is illegal and that is exactly what Senator Cruz’s campaign and his campaign’s
National Co-Chair reportedly did at a recent campaign event.

“Senator Cruz’s campaign disregarded the law and brazenly asked supporters to
give both unlimited contributions and contributions from corporations to a Stand
for Truth PAC supporting Senator Cruz’s campaign.

“The Texas Democratic Party is calling on the FEC to immediately investigate the
full scope of Cruz’s violations, seek the maximum financial penalties, and
enjoin future violations of the law.”

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Crystal, Andy < [email-masked] > wrote:
Looks good on my end

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From: Freundlich, Christina
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 2:43 PM
To: Garcia, Walter; Manny Garcia; Crystal, Andy
Cc: Crystal Perkins; [email-masked] ; Walker, Eric
Subject: RE: FEC complain rollout

I like it. Adding Andy from our research team here – helpful for him to take a
look as well.

Andy, this is for the FEC complaint for politico. If you could take a look, we
would appreciate it. Thanks!

From: Garcia, Walter
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 8:03 PM
To: Manny Garcia
Cc: Crystal Perkins; Freundlich, Christina; [email-masked] ; Walker, Eric
Subject: Re: FEC complain rollout

Small edits in first graf. Got rid of "knowingly" since we don't know that for
sure.

Good on my end.

On Apr 22, 2016, at 7:14 PM, Manny Garcia < [email-masked] > wrote:

Hey DNC folks,

Please review the following quote from Crystal to make available to Politico on
Sunday.

-Manny

Texas Democratic Party Executive Director Crystal K. Perkins issued the
following statement:

“There's no other way to put it: Tea Party Republican Ted Cruz’s campaign broke
federal election campaign laws. Soliciting donations that exceed federal limits
is illegal and that is exactly what Senator Cruz’s campaign and his campaign’s
National Co-Chair reportedly did at a recent campaign event.

“Senator Cruz’s campaign disregarded the law and brazenly asked supporters to
give both unlimited contributions and contributions from corporations to a Stand
for Truth PAC supporting Senator Cruz’s campaign.

“The Texas Democratic Party is calling on the FEC to immediately investigate the
full scope of Cruz’s violations, seek the maximum financial penalties, and
enjoin future violations of the law.”

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 4:41 PM, Crystal Perkins [email-masked] wrote:

​ Monday- Chair is available for a call, we think it would be better to do at
1:00pm.

DNC: Alert TDP when story is up

TDP: will advise press call as soon as we get word that the story is up (and
include the complaint in the advisory)

Tuesday:

DNC: Sending additional research to identify donors who were present at the
fundraiser and subsequently gave to super PAC.

TDP: Will work with TX reporter (Rosenthal) to get another story with the
additional information on donors.

​

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Freundlich, Christina < [email-masked] > wrote:

Hi Team Texas – I just wanted to further our conversation about the FEC
complaint rollout next week. I want to maximize as much coverage as I can on
this, and I think we have a great opportunity to do so.

- Sunday – we give Isaac the exclusive on the complaint, per our earlier
conversation. This story will run Monday morning.

- Monday morning – we do a press call with the TX dems chair, and maybe another
surrogate of sorts (is there some good FEC person Democrat in Texas who would be
good for this)? We should advise to national and Texas press. I have done many
FEC complaint roll outs before, and I think doing a press call is a must. Could
we aim for Monday morning at 10am CST?

- Tuesday – we have pulled some info from the latest FEC reports filed last week
on people who were at the event that have since given to the Super PAC. I think
we should give this to someone in Texas --- someone like Brian Rosenthal – as a
good day two follow up story. He is a good friend of mine, so I am happy to help
there, but also defer to you on who in Texas you think might be interested in
this.

Something else to think about is posting the official complaint on your website
to blast in the post-call release on Monday. We did this with our Arizona
complaint since every reporter was asking for a copy of it. However, it wasn’t
“searchable,” just an easy link for reporters to link to.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.democrats.org/News/arizona_case.pdf

One last thing – our research director said there might be a local angle with
the Attorney General or someone whom you might want to include in all of this?
Does this ring a bell?

let me know what you think about all of this!

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Crystal Kay Perkins

Executive Director, Texas Democratic Party

Cell: 210-414-3418 | Email: [email-masked]

Manny Garcia

Deputy Executive Director

C: (956) 459-8498

T: @MannyGarciaTX

www.txdemocrats.org

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Manny Garcia Deputy Executive Director C: (956) 459-8498 T: @MannyGarciaTX www.txdemocrats.org

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Manny Garcia Deputy Executive Director C: (956) 459-8498 T: @MannyGarciaTX www.txdemocrats.org