Subject: Re: WSJ question...
From: April Mellody <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Patrice Taylor <[email-masked]>, "Federico, Courtney" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 22:38:23 +0000

Great. Thanks. Will see what I can find out and report back if I learn anything.

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On May 12, 2016, at 6:10 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Yes, it is. I gave her basic background along same lines of the call we did with Politico.

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Democratic National Committee
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From: April Mellody [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 6:08 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: Patrice Taylor; Federico, Courtney; Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: Re: WSJ question...

Hey Luis - Is this Laura Meckler? If so, I have heard some feedback about her calling around. I can reach out to give her a call. April

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On May 12, 2016, at 6:03 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
And remind me what "the Call" is?

<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC>

From: Patrice Taylor
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 6:02 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: April Mellody; Federico, Courtney; Paustenbach, Mark
Subject: Re: WSJ question...

Per the Call, The Convention Rules Committee has jurisdiction to propose the Convention agenda, permanent Rules of the Convention, proposed amendments to party rules and any other matters not covered by the other standing committees.

They do not draft the Delegate Selection Rules. That's done by the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.
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On May 12, 2016, at 5:52 PM, Miranda, Luis <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Hey, the Wall Street Journal is asking if the Rules committee has any jurisdiction over the items Bernie wants, like changing rules to encourage open primaries, recommend bonus delegates for states that do that - for example --

Is it accurate to say that the Convention Rules Committee only deals with rules specific to the functioning of the 2016 convention? What should we say?

Similarly, if they did want to make such changes, there would have to be some kind of commission like the one that took Supers from 20% to 15%, right?

<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC>