Subject: Fwd: payday lending rules
From: Ryan Banfill <[email-masked]>
To: Luis Miranda <[email-masked]>, Mark Paustenbach <[email-masked]>, Eric Walker <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 15:06:18 -0400

Can you guys please field this? Not one for the chair. 
Thanks,
Ryan

> Kery Murakami
> Washington, D.C. Reporter
> Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
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> Desk: 202-383-6032
> Cell: 202-286-8727

This is the DC reporter for CNHI, a chain of 68 newspapers in 23 states. We don’t have any in Florida, but we have a bunch in the Boston suburbs and Warren is one of the senators I track,

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> From: "Burgan, Geoff" <[email-masked]>
> Date: May 9, 2016 at 2:54:08 PM EDT
> To: Ryan Banfill <[email-masked]>
> Subject: RE: payday lending rules
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> From initial contact:  
> Hey Geoff, I’m the DC reporter for CNHI, a chain of 68 newspapers in 23 states. We don’t have any in Florida, but we have a bunch in the Boston suburbs and Warren is one of the senators I track,
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> Geoff Burgan
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> From: Ryan Banfill [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 2:53 PM
> To: Burgan, Geoff
> Subject: Re: payday lending rules
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> Who is he with?
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On May 9, 2016, at 2:48 PM, Burgan, Geoff <[email-masked]> wrote:
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> From: Kery Murakami [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2016 2:41 PM
> To: Burgan, Geoff
> Subject: Re: payday lending rules
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> Hi Geoff, I’m doing a little story about Sanders’ letter to the congresswoman on  the convention committees. I was wondering if she wanted to say anything about it.
> May 6, 2016
> Contact: Michael Briggs (802) 233-8653
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> BURLINGTON, Vt. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday urged Democratic Party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz not to stack the committees that will draft the rules and lay out the party platform at this summer’s Democratic National Convention.
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> In a letter to the party chairwoman, Sanders said the makeup of the standing committees should reflect the relative level of support that he and Hillary Clinton received in primaries and caucuses. So far, Sanders has won about 45 percent of the pledged delegates. Both campaigns deserve a say at the convention this July in Philadelphia, the senator said.
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> Under party rules, Wasserman Schultz recommends 25 at-large appointments to the party’s executive committee for each of the three standing committees; rules, platform and credentials. Wasserman Schultz has forwarded only three of 40 names the Sanders campaign recommended for the key committees while installing Clinton loyalists in leading roles. Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy was put in charge of the Platform Committee, for example, and former Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts was tapped to head the Rules Committee.
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> Sanders called Malloy and Frank “aggressive attack surrogates” for Clinton. He doubted that either would “conduct committee proceeding in an even-handed manner” and said the appointments of the two Clinton loyalists “suggests the standing committees are being established in an overtly partisan way meant to exclude the input of the voters who have supported my candidacy.”
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> How the party leadership comports itself at the convention will affect Democrats’ chances of winning the general election this November, the Vermont senator said.
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> “If we are to have a unified party in the fall, no matter who wins the nomination, we cannot have a Democratic National Convention in which the views of millions of people who participated in the Democratic nominating process are unrepresented in the committee membership. That sends the very real message that the Democratic Party is not open to the millions of new people that our campaign has brought into the political process, does not want to hear new voices and is unwilling to respect the broader base of people that this party needs to win over in November and beyond,” Sanders wrote to Wasserman Schultz.
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> The letter warned that if committee assignments aren't fairly allotted one result could be floor fights. Under party rules, minority reports may be brought before the full convention at the request of 25 percent of the platform, credentials and rules committees.
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> “If the process is set up to produce an unfair, one-sided result, we are prepared to mobilize our delegates to force as many votes as necessary to amend the platform and rules on the floor of the convention,” Sanders wrote.
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> Kery Murakami
> Washington, D.C. Reporter
> Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
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> Desk: 202-383-6032
> Cell: 202-286-8727
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> CNHI operates 68 daily newspapers with a combined circulation of about 550,000. For a list of our publications:
> http://www.cnhi.com/locations/
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> From: "Burgan, Geoff" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thursday, March 31, 2016 at 9:02 AM
> To: Kery Murakami <[email-masked]>
> Subject: RE: payday lending rules
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> Good morning Kery – see below for a quote from me you can use. I’d appreciate if you’re able to include specific parts of my boss’ CFPB voting record in your piece. Thanks again.
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> Quote from Geoff Burgan, Rep. Wasserman Schultz Press Secretary:
> “Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz has repeatedly stood up against attempts to gut or weaken the CFPB. She proudly voted to create the CFPB, and has been proud to defend it against Republican attacks.”
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> Geoff Burgan
> Press Secretary
> Office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23)
> C: 443.801.1915
> BB: 202.999.9001
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> From: Kery Murakami [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 5:25 PM
> To: Burgan, Geoff
> Subject: Re: payday lending rules
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> Hey thanks Geoff. I get that about co-sponsoring and about Scott, and defintely I’ll make that clear.
> Is there any way you can say this on the record as a spokesman? "She does not support attempts to “gut” the CFPB a She was proud to vote for it and has been proud to defend it.
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> Kery Murakami
> Washington, D.C. Reporter
> Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
>  
> Desk: 202-383-6032
> Cell: 202-286-8727
>  
> CNHI operates 68 daily newspapers with a combined circulation of about 550,000. For a list of our publications:
> http://www.cnhi.com/locations/
>  
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> From: "Burgan, Geoff" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 5:20 PM
> To: Kery Murakami <[email-masked]>
> Subject: RE: payday lending rules
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> Hi Kery –
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> I want to be clear that the Congresswoman is only a cosponsor of HR 4018, and the lead sponsor is Rep. Ross (FL). His office will have more information on the bill itself.
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> On background, I want to pass on a sample of my boss’ voting record defending CFPB. She does not support attempts to “gut” the CFPB and I take issue with some stories’ characterization that that is her goal. She was proud to vote for it and has been proud to defend it.
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> Thanks,
> Geoff
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> Geoff Burgan
> Press Secretary
> Office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23)
> C: 443.801.1915
> BB: 202.999.9001
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> From: Kery Murakami [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 12:37 PM
> To: Burgan, Geoff
> Subject: Re: payday lending rules
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> Hey thanks for getting back to me. Sometime tomorrow? I have to file by noon Friday, but I’m at FCC tomorrow covering another issue. So hoping to get as much done today, but will still be working on it tomorrow
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> Kery Murakami
> Washington, D.C. Reporter
> Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
>  
> Desk: 202-383-6032
> Cell: 202-286-8727
>  
> CNHI operates 68 daily newspapers with a combined circulation of about 550,000. For a list of our publications:
> http://www.cnhi.com/locations/
>  
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> From: "Burgan, Geoff" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at 12:32 PM
> To: Kery Murakami <[email-masked]>
> Subject: RE: payday lending rules
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> Hi Kery – what’s your deadline for this story?
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> Geoff Burgan
> Press Secretary
> Office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23)
> C: 443.801.1915
> BB: 202.999.9001
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> From: Kery Murakami [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 11:58 AM
> To: Burgan, Geoff
> Subject: payday lending rules
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> Hey Geoff, I’m the DC reporter for CNHI, a chain of 68 newspapers in 23 states. We don’t have any in Florida, but we have a bunch in the Boston suburbs and Warren is one of the senators I track,
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> I’m working on a story about the pending CFPB payday lending rules, and was hoping to learn more about the congresswoman’s bill, and her concerns about the CFPB’s approach. Was wondering if we could talk on background about it, or if you have anything that lays out her concerns.
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> Thanks a lot. I used to work at Newsday in New York, and I worked with someone over there a few years ago on a little story about the congresswoman when she became head of the party, cause she went to Dix Hills High School in our area. 
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> Kery Murakami
> Washington, D.C. Reporter
> Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc.
>  
> Desk: 202-383-6032
> Cell: 202-286-8727
>  
> CNHI operates 68 daily newspapers with a combined circulation of about 550,000. For a list of our publications:
> http://www.cnhi.com/locations/
>