Subject: RE: For Your Review: Weekly Update
From: "Greene, Julie" <[email-masked]>
To: "Shestopal, Olivia" <[email-masked]>, "Price, Jenna" <[email-masked]>, "Palermo, Rachel" <[email-masked]>, "Garcia, Walter" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 05:50:58 -0700

LOT'S of Trump.  For this week I think its ok, I don't want to touch what's happening on our side because its engendering negative feedback from Members, but we should be aware for future updates.

Julie
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From: Shestopal, Olivia
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 8:24 AM
To: Price, Jenna; Palermo, Rachel; Garcia, Walter
Cc: Greene, Julie; Miranda, Luis
Subject: For Your Review: Weekly Update

Hi all,

Below please find our draft of the weekly update. Let us know your feedback.

Thanks,

Olivia

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Dear DNC member,

Tuesday night marked the close of two more Democratic primary contests in Kentucky and Oregon. “It’s once again clear that our voters are excited and enthusiastic about the future of our party,” DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a statement<http://www.democrats.org/Post/dnc-chair-statement-on-may-17-2016-primaries>, “…[they are] ready to hold Donald Trump accountable for the damage he’s done as a candidate and the damage he’s promising he would do as president.”

However, Trump’s refusal to be held accountable to any of his actions took an ironic twist this week, when NBC reported<http://factivists.democrats.org/the-irony-trumps-vp-hopeful-will-have-to-submit-tax-returns/> that Donald Trump’s vice presidential hopefuls WILL have to turn their tax returns over to the Trump campaign to be vetted. Donald Trump continues to refuse to release his tax returns, and while he has released his Personal Financial Disclosures, they don’t really tell us anything<http://factivists.democrats.org/pfds-dont-tell-us-anything-about-trump/> about Trump or how much he is actually worth. “While it is not clear why Donald Trump refuses to release his tax returns, it is clear the only thing Trump cares about is himself,” said DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda<http://factivists.democrats.org/trumps-plan-to-profit-off-of-voters/>, “The American people would lose under a Trump Administration that would drag America back to the same old tax cuts for the wealthy, like those in place when our country was losing 800,000 jobs a month under the last Republican president.”

Also this week, Donald Trump’s Republican Party has already started punishing women with the Oklahoma legislature passing a bill that would make an abortion a felony<http://factivists.democrats.org/trumps-republican-party-has-already-started-punishing-women-in-oklahoma/> and prevent any doctors who have performed an abortion from practicing in the state. This is just the latest example of the spread of Donald Trump’s misogyny into the Republican Party. Trump also took to Twitter last Sunday to deny he has mistreated women. While he may be denying his mistreatment of women, our Factivists put together a page of some of Trump’s most offensive tweets. Check it out here<http://factivists.democrats.org/when-trump-takes-to-it-twitter-to-talk-about-women/>.

Finally, in an interview with The New York Times Magazine, Donald Trump equated Ferguson and Oakland to Iraq,<http://factivists.democrats.org/trumps-message-to-black-america-ferguson-and-oakland-are-the-new-iraq-2/> claiming both cities are “among the most dangerous in the world.” He continues to use race as a wedge issue. He refused to disavow David Duke four times in one interview and claimed that thousands of Muslims were cheering as the World Trade Center fell during September 11th. “We’re not sure how much lower Trump can sink,” said Chair of the Democratic National Committee Black Caucus Virgie M. Rollins, “but he clearly lacks the judgment and temperament necessary to lead.”

Have a safe and happy weekend.
Best,
Stephanie
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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Secretary
Democratic National Committee