From: Mark Paustenbach <[email-masked]>
To: Eric Walker <[email-masked]>, Luis Miranda <[email-masked]>, Tom Walsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 09:48:49 -0400

Senate Candidates Told They Can Skip the Convention," by Alex Burns: "Ward Baker, the executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said [at a briefing for lobbyists and donors on Thursday that] conventions were a distracting spectacle every four years [and] told Republican lawmakers that they would be better off talking to voters in their home states." http://nyti.ms/1T3TBPr

Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202.863.8148
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