Subject: FW: Story on cost of political swag
From: "Price, Jenna" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 08:55:12 -0700

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From: Sher Spooner [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 11:53 AM
To: DNC Press
Subject: Story on cost of political swag

I am a contributing editor for Daily Kos, a leading liberal political website with 17 million unique monthly viewers, and am doing a story on political swag. Specifically, I am writing about the huge amount of stuff that is mailed to donors and potential donors. I would like to interview someone in the fundraising area who could answer some of these questions:

How much is spent producing this material? The letters, the photos, the posters, the stickers, the “honorary badge” to the Democratic Convention that I received recently and must have been expensive to produce.

How much material is mailed to donors throughout the country?

Does the DNC feel the money spent is worth the return?

What materials have been the most successful in drawing contributions?

Is there a way for people to opt out of mail solicitations? (I know you can “unsubscribe” to emails.) Many are concerned with the waste of paper, material, and postage costs.

An aside: I am also a Democratic donor, having given to the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, and many candidates and campaigns. (Personally, if I never got anything in the mail again, that would be fine with me.)

I understand if you can’t share proprietary information on spending, but given the fact that you’re funded by donations, and many Daily Kos readers make those donations, the amount spent on mailings is worrisome.

I would appreciate if someone could get back to me at their earliest convenience. You can contact me at the email address or the phone number below. My deadline is Thursday noon, so a call or email sometime early this afternoon (I’ll be out after 3:30 p.m. Eastern) or any time tomorrow would be wonderful. I will be publishing this story on Sunday with or without comment from you.

Even written answers to these questions would be great. Thanks.

Sher Watts Spooner
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@SherSpooner