Subject: Re: News Journal article on our fundraising
From: "Alexander S. Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "ted kaufman" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Josh" <[email-masked]>, "Mike" <[email-masked]>, "Joe" <[email-masked]>, "Beau" <[email-masked]>, "Molly" <[email-masked]>, "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:20:31 -0500

Amen. And last paragraph is a great setup for the next year-plus
*Magarik said the cash cushion in Biden's campaign account should allow the
attorney general to focus more on raising money for his political action
committee, Beau PAC. Contributions to the committee are unlimited, and
Biden will use that money to support other Democratic candidates in the
fall, Magarik said.*

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 7:23 AM, <[email-masked]> wrote:

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> This will be in Thursday's News Journal. Molly's quotes are right on
> message.
>
> Beau Biden war chest suggests political aspirations
>
> Attorney General Beau Biden raised more than $1.4 million through his
> campaign and his political action committee in 2013, a significant sum that
> could say less about his re-election effort in November and more about his
> future political ambitions.
>
> Biden, the oldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, raised $1.2 million in
> his attorney general campaign committee, which was helped by a blockbuster
> September fundraiser at his father's Greenville home. The attorney general
> had $902,000 cash on hand in his campaign committee at the end of last
> year, after spending on staff, travel and other campaign expenses.
>
> "It was one of the nicer politcal events I've seen," said Robert Byrd, one
> of Dover's top lobbyists who attended the event and gave the maximum $1,200
> to Biden's campaign. "I've been to a lot of fundraisers. When I say it was
> a nice event, it was a nice event."
>
> The fundraising push came during a difficult time for Biden, who sought
> treatment at a prominent Houston, Texas, cancer hospital in August and has
> talked little about his health since. Biden declined to discuss his
> fundraising this week, but the push also raised questions about his
> political future. Biden is rumored as a possible candidate for governor in
> 2016.
>
> Wilmington lawyer Stuart Grant, a fundraiser for President Obama's
> re-election campaign who is helping coordinate Biden's fundraising efforts,
> said "that would not surprise me," when asked if Biden was looking forward
> to a governor's race.
>
> "I thought it was a very successful year. We were very pleased. Beau has
> always been committed to public service. It would not surprise me if he
> looked forward to higher office," Grant said.
>
> Molly Magarik, who directs Biden's campaign operation, said last year's
> fundraising focused on his re-election campaign to his third term as
> attorney general this November. No one has yet filed to run against him.
>
> "We have to have enough money to run an effective campaign," Magarik said.
> "Regarding what he's going to do in the future, he loves public service. He
> really has enjoyed the opportunity that he's been granted as being elected
> attorney general. This is probably not the last office he will seek. But it
> is too premature at this time to say with any certainty what he's doing
> after this year. He has an open mind about looking at future opportunities."
>
> Biden's fundraising base was broader than is typical for a Delaware
> attorney general, and also could have been helped by the addition early
> last year of Josh Alcorn, who previously worked on Joe Biden's presidential
> campaign in 2008 and most recently as U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry
> Reid's finance director.
>
> Registered Republican Tatiana Copeland, Delaware Symphony Orchestra chair,
> gave $10,000 between the political action committee and Biden's campaign
> account.
>
> Former U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut turned Hollywood
> lobbyist, held a fundraiser for Beau Biden in February at the Beverly Hills
> Hotel while the attorney general was traveling nearby for a meeting of
> Democratic attorneys general.
>
> Tom McGonigle, the former chief of staff to Gov. Jack Markell who now
> heads the Wilmington office of the law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath, gave
> the maximum to Biden's campaign committee and helped raise money from
> others as a member of the host committee for the September fundraiser at
> the vice president's home.
>
> "My sense is he's focused on his re-election," McGonigle said of Biden.
> "In this business you can't take things for granted. The reality is you
> just don't know. I think you've got to take those things seriously. In
> terms of what he's going to do next, I don't know, and I don't think he
> knows."
>
> Magarik said the cash cushion in Biden's campaign account should allow the
> attorney general to focus more on raising money for his political action
> committee, Beau PAC. Contributions to the committee are unlimited, and
> Biden will use that money to support other Democratic candidates in the
> fall, Magarik said.
>
>
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