Subject: RE: report from Cincy event
From: "Helmstetter, TJ" <[email-masked]>
To: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, Regional Press <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 09:22:17 -0700

I’m working on 7 of em!

From: Walker, Eric
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:21 PM
To: Helmstetter, TJ; Regional Press
Subject: RE: report from Cincy event

We need 50 Kirstens.

From: Helmstetter, TJ
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:20 PM
To: Regional Press
Subject: report from Cincy event

From: Kirstin Alvanitakis [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:19 PM
To: David Pepper; Denise Driehaus; Aftab Pureval; Aftab Pureval
Cc: Greg Beswick; Ernie Davis; Danny Porter; Helmstetter, TJ
Subject: Re: Materials for tomorrow

Thank you again to everyone for participating in today's news conference! I will send around clips later today.

But in the meantime, here are a few photos:

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And here are a few Tweets to RT and/or share:

https://twitter.com/OHDems/status/728225130464354304
https://twitter.com/OHDems/status/728226525171073024
https://twitter.com/OHDems/status/728227782854103042
https://twitter.com/local12jeff/status/728236266114842625
https://twitter.com/JohnLondonWLWT/status/728237283879596032

Thanks again!

Kirstin

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Kirstin Alvanitakis <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Good evening!

Please find below and attached materials for tomorrow's news conference. I plan to be on site by 9:30 a.m. If you can, please try to arrive about 10-15 minutes early. I did pitch calls this evening, and I believe we will have at least WCPO and WKRC, as well as the Enquirer, in attendance. I will do a second round of pitch calls in the morning.

Please do not hesitate to give me a call on my cell at 919.923.4055<tel:919.923.4055> or shoot me an email if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you in advance for your time and assistance!

Kirstin

TRUMP IS PRESUMPTIVE GOP NOMINEE PRESSER

5.5.16

DATE/TIME:

THURSDAY, MAY 5 -- 10 A.M.

PLEASE ARRIVE BY 9:45 A.M.

LOCATION:

WASHINGTON PARK

1230 ELM ST.

CINCINNATI

ON-SITE CONTACT:

KIRSTIN ALVANITAKIS

[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

919.923.4055<tel:919.923.4055> (c)

PARTICIPANTS:

OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRMAN DAVID PEPPER -- [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

STATE REP. DENISE DRIEHAUS -- [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

AFTAB PUREVAL, CANDIDATE, HAMILTON COUNTY CLERK OF COURTS --

[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> / [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

RUN OF SHOW:

10 A.M. -- PEPPER WELCOME, OPENING REMARKS

10:05 A.M. -- DRIEHAUS REMARKS

10:10 A.M. -- PUREVAL REMARKS

10:15 A.M. -- Q-AND-A, MODERATED BY KIRSTIN

KEY MESSAGES:

·         Donald Trump’s recklessness would hurt our economy, diminish our standing in the world and make our communities less safe. Trump is dangerous, and he lacks the judgment or temperament to be president.

·         There are only two sides here. Ohio Republicans are either with Trump, and they support his dangerous, divisive rhetoric -- or they stand against him. The time is now for Ohio Republicans to make their choice.

OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIRMAN DAVID PEPPER

·         We’re here today to talk about the disastrous week that Ohio Republicans have been having.

·         This week started out with Governor John Kasich finding out that Ohioans wanted him to stop running for president and come back home and address the challenges that our state is facing.

·         Well yesterday, John Kasich finally acceded to the will of the people and dropped out of the presidential race.

·         That means that Donald Trump is now the presumptive Republican nominee for president. And that’s no laughing matter.

·         Donald Trump’s recklessness would hurt our economy, diminish our standing in the world and make our communities less safe. Trump is dangerous, and he lacks the judgment or temperament to be president.

·         Let’s talk for a minute about how a Trump presidency would affect our national security. Even as a candidate, Dangerous Donald has damaged America’s relationships across the globe. In the White House, he would undeniably make America less safe.

·         Donald Trump has no foreign policy experience and rather than seeking the advice of well-respected experts, Trump relies on his own misinformed ideas and in his own words, on his “good brain.”

·         Trump has falsely claimed that he knows “more about ISIS than the generals” and recommended that the U.S. military commit international war crimes.

·         Trump’s threat to pull back from our most important military alliances like NATO, pull aid from our allies like Israel and his gushing praise for dictators would put our country on a dangerous path.

·         Trump has refused to rule out using nuclear weapons on European territory, and he wants to allow countries that don’t currently have nuclear weapons to get them, reversing long-held goals of international nuclear disarmament.

·         So when the Ohio Republican Party says that they are supporting the Republican nominee -- when Rob Portman says he is supporting Trump -- he’s saying that he thinks Donald Trump should be in charge of our national security. That’s frightening.

·         There are only two sides here. Ohio Republicans are either with Trump, and they support his dangerous, divisive rhetoric -- or they stand against him. The time is now for Ohio Republicans to make their choice.

STATE REP. DENISE DRIEHAUS

·         I’d like to talk for just a few minutes about Donald Trump’s record of denigrating women, which has only gotten worse throughout this campaign, and his divisive rhetoric, which is making our communities less safe.

·         Dangerous Donald has a decades-long record of denigrating women and promoting misogyny. Trump has spent decades calling women names -- “fat pig,” “slob” or “bimbo” – and insulting any woman who dares to challenge him.

·         But it’s not just the insults -- it’s the policies he promotes. Trump thinks ensuring equal pay for women should just be left up to “the marketplace” and once suggested family leave policies should actually be scaled back and noted pregnancy was “an inconvenience for a business.” Trump complained that when he employed mothers, they were not giving him “100 percent.”

·         Women aren’t the only ones that Donald Trump has targeted. Dangerous Donald has exploited racial anxieties and cultural fears in the pursuit of getting elected -- to the point where his rallies have sparked violence against people of color, protestors and members of the news media.

·         Trump spouts hateful and dangerous lies about Muslims and called to surveil mosques, to ban Muslims from entering the country and to create a database of all Muslims in America -- including U.S. citizens -- and could not answer when pressed on how this would be any different from Nazi Germany.

·         Trump called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and criminals and said they brought disease into the country. We’re a nation of immigrants. Hatred and intolerance -- that’s not what we’re about as Americans.

·         Trump has been endorsed by former KKK leader David Duke, and his candidacy has been used as a recruiting tool for the white supremacist movement, which is no surprise since Trump refused to disavow David Duke and the KKK four times in one interview.

·         Trump has fostered violence against protestors at his rallies, suggesting that a Black Lives Matter protester maybe “should have been roughed up,” promising to pay the legal fees if someone would “knock the hell” out of a protester and reminiscing about the old days when a protester would be “carried off on a stretcher.”

·         And if that’s not enough to make you concerned, think about this. Trump repeatedly threatened the First Amendment by calling to “open up” libel laws so he could sue reporters whenever they printed a story he did not like, made it a practice of banning media outlets he did not like from covering his rallies, and thought “closing” parts of the Internet was a rational strategy to combat ISIS.

·         So Ohio Republicans really have a choice. Are they going to stand with Trump and support this hate-filled, divisive rhetoric? Or are they going to denounce Trump and the hateful things he says? I have to tell you, our children are listening, and they are watching.

AFTAB PUREVAL

·         Though he plays the part of a wealthy and successful businessman, Dangerous Donald’s real life record is riddled with embarrassing failures and cheap schemes designed to turn a quick buck at the expense of everyday Americans.

·         Despite his tough talk on trade deals and the loss of American jobs, Donald Trump manufactured his clothing line in countries he rails against, like China and Mexico.

·         Dangerous Donald owes everything to the tens of millions of dollars in loans and bailouts he received from his family.

·         This is who Rob Portman and the Ohio GOP are supporting.

·         At the end of the day, Rob Portman and the Ohio GOP think that Donald Trump should be deciding our economic and trade policy.

·         Rob Portman and the Ohio GOP think that Donald Trump should be deciding who should be our next Supreme Court Justice.

·         As David said earlier, Rob Portman and the Ohio GOP think that Donald Trump should be setting our foreign policy. They think Donald Trump should have the nuclear launch codes.

·         That’s unacceptable. And principled Republicans here in Ohio should have the courage to stand up to Trump. We’ve already seen Republicans like Auditor Dave Yost and state Senator Shannon Jones have said they will never support Trump. We need more Ohioans like that, who will put the welfare of our country before their party.

RESOURCES:

Our statement on Kasich dropping out:

https://ohiodems.org/ohio-democratic-party-statement-gov-john-kasich-suspending-presidential-run/

Our memo on Ohio Republicans in disarray: https://ohiodems.org/memo-ohio-republicans-disarray-ohio-democrats-build-november/

Our HuffPo blog on Kasich as a lame-duck governor: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-pepper/if-it-walks-and-quacks-li_b_9772296.html

FAQS:

Q: What do I say if I’m asked about Democrats voting for Trump?

A: For every vote that Trump may or may not pick up, he loses 10 more. A recent poll found that Trump would be the least-popular candidate to represent either party in modern times<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-would-be-least-popular-major-party-nominee-in-modern-times/2016/03/30/b4b077e0-f5e7-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html>. He’s widely unpopular with young people, women, Latinos, African Americans. There are even many Ohio Republicans like Dave Yost and state Sen. Shannon Jones who have said they won’t back Trump if he’s the nominee.

Q: What do I say if I’m asked about the tone of the Democratic primary?

A: We believe that a spirited primary is good for the Democratic Party. The vast majority of Democrats have been energized by the primary process, while the majority of Republicans have been turned off by the divisive, petty rhetoric on their side. In 2008, we had a hard-fought primary, but at the end of the day, the party came together and elected President Obama. That’s what we’re going to do this year, and we’re already organizing here on the ground in Ohio to do just that.

--
Kirstin Alvanitakis
Communications Director
Ohio Democratic Party
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
c: 919.923.4055<tel:919.923.4055>

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Kirstin Alvanitakis
Communications Director
Ohio Democratic Party
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
c: 919.923.4055<tel:919.923.4055>