Subject: RE: HVF
From: "Wilson, Graham M. (Perkins Coie)" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Dacey, Amy" <[email-masked]>, "Elias, Marc (Perkins Coie)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 21:33:18 +0000

Perfect - thanks so much. It is ridiculous how they can misconstrue things.

Graham M. Wilson | Perkins Coie LLP
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From: Miranda, Luis [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 5:32 PM
To: Wilson, Graham M. (Perkins Coie)
Cc: Dacey, Amy; Elias, Marc (Perkins Coie)
Subject: RE: HVF

Yup. The point I made on background was that, as the Clinton camp has said, all transfers have happened according to the agreement. He was arguing the money was taken without state parties knowing, I referred him to Clinton camp and said that, he twisted it. I'll ping him.

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Democratic National Committee
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From: Wilson, Graham M. (Perkins Coie) [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 4:37 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Cc: Dacey, Amy; Marc Elias
Subject: HVF

Hi Luis,

Just saw this article: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2016/may/05/george-clooney/george-clooney-decries-big-money-politics-says-mos/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.politifact.com_punditfact_statements_2016_may_05_george-2Dclooney_george-2Dclooney-2Ddecries-2Dbig-2Dmoney-2Dpolitics-2Dsays-2Dmos_&d=CwMFAg&c=XRWvQHnpdBDRh-yzrHjqLpXuHNC_9nanQc6pPG_SpT0&r=ztfeb3sYMwYJc4m6DQzcZ1EDxKmQmE8pe5TrXm4gdCU&m=CcEL2gxwGBg0FHc9uUG2z2PFb1B6OaA2Zl-1mGZf_kU&s=bvFJP_rl8Wjv1ZWuknyYQIW5sG48axBLQEK6kDsnSCo&e=>

I wanted to clarify that the following statement is not correct and it is very important that it not be our story:

The Clinton campaign provided a copy of the agreement with the state parties, but it contains no language requiring such a transfer. Although DNC spokesman Luis Miranda said that the terms of the agreement called for states to send the money to the DNC for election infrastructure, Clinton spokesman Schwerin was emphatic that the state committees were free to keep whatever money they wanted.

I'm sure they just misinterpreted what you were saying while emphasizing the money is used for infrastructure, but there is definitely no agreement requiring the state parties to move any money to the DNC. Our message should be that they are completely free to keep the money, but they are moving it to the DNC to help us pay for the infrastructure that helps the whole party and that they will likely keep much more money to fund the ground game further into the election.

In practice, the state parties will move the money where they, HFA, and the DNC thinks it will be the most useful, and the state parties have made different decisions about who to make singers on their accounts, but there is definitely no formal agreement or obligation that would require them to move money to the DNC.

If there was such an agreement, it would raise serious legal question for the DNC in terms of formally circumventing the contribution limits so it is important that we don't let that idea get out there.

Happy to discuss further if you'd like.

Thanks,

Graham

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