Subject: RE: joint victory fund
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: "Kumar, Anita" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 15:16:58 -0700

On the record, 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. Their claims are wrong. Period.

The fact is both campaigns signed on to similar agreements. While only one campaign is currently using their joint victory fund we encourage both of our campaigns 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.

On background,
take a look at what the Election Law Blog posted: “it is hard to see what provision of the law” is at issue. As the blog points out, “legally” the criticism of the fund “seems weak.”   http://electionlawblog.org/?p=81996<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__electionlawblog.org_-3Fp-3D81996&d=CwMFAg&c=XRWvQHnpdBDRh-yzrHjqLpXuHNC_9nanQc6pPG_SpT0&r=ztfeb3sYMwYJc4m6DQzcZ1EDxKmQmE8pe5TrXm4gdCU&m=xosCmCfJlZ5AfIscnIGFPlKd_WqB4JHLY4vSLilK-IE&s=IDZd2_ULQhvZFm33gwH-mCSwcJMtMpjuFI5_FJQQvqk&e=>

Also on background, their math is wrong. While money has obviously been spent for fundraising costs (which is absolutely necessary in order to raise the 60 million dollars they keep referencing) there are millions of dollars still sitting in HVF that are allocated to the DNC and the state parties, and that will therefore be transferred to the DNC and the state parties. They have not yet been distributed because the point of the party portion of HVF is to raise money to fund the general election.
The math is also wrong on the Politico story for the same reason. Their claim that state parties only get to keep 1 percent of all the money being raised is incorrect and comparing apples and oranges. They reference the total amount of money that has been raised, but of that, many millions have been raised for state parties and just haven’t been distributed to them yet (nor has it gone to the DNC or anywhere else). Because this is money for the general election, and coordinated campaigns are just now starting to be built at state parties, it is perfectly understandable that not all of that money that will eventually go to state parties would have been distributed yet.
Happy to discuss at greater length.

[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
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From: Kumar, Anita [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 6:02 PM
To: Paustenbach, Mark
Cc: Miranda, Luis
Subject: Re: joint victory fund

It's been out since 7 am. Sanders is asking for a correction.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article75438497.html

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Paustenbach, Mark <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Thanks, Anita, for reaching out. When are you writing for?

Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
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From: Kumar, Anita [mailto:[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>]
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 5:36 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: joint victory fund

Sanders campaigns says:

"In fact we can see from her FEC-tracked disbursements exactly where the remaining money has gone. It has gone straight to advertisements and direct mail campaigns for Hillary. The money can't eventually go to the DNC and state parties because it has already been spent."
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