Subject: Re: FEC complain rollout
From: Manny Garcia <[email-masked]>
To: "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Freundlich, Christina" <[email-masked]>, "Crystal, Andy" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, Crystal Perkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 19:21:16 -0500

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
>> ------------------------------
>> *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!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *Crystal Kay Perkins*
>>
>> *Executive Director, Texas Democratic Party*
>>
>> Cell: 210-414-3418 | Email: [email-masked]
>>
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>> Manny Garcia
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>> Deputy Executive Director
>>
>> C: (956) 459-8498
>>
>> T: @MannyGarciaTX
>>
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> --
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> T: @MannyGarciaTX
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T: @MannyGarciaTX
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