Subject: POLITICO Huddle – BACHMANN THE ANTI-HILLARY? – Secret Service chief resigns – Chaffetz’s trial run – IMMIGRATION PUNT HURTING DEMS? – Becerra pitches Perez for AG – RAND: U.S. DOWNPLAYING EBOLA THREAT
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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 07:26:11 -0600

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BACHMANN: I'M NOT GOING AWAY - POLITICO's Lauren French and John Bresnahan get an interview with the conservative firebrand, who is leaving Congress after this year but not retiring from the public spotlight: "The Minnesota Republican is fiercely courting media and speaking opportunities, likely in Washington, New York or Los Angeles, and looking to burnish her credentials as a foreign policy expert ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Her hope is to emerge as the 'anti-Hillary,' a female conservative foil to likely Democratic presidential contender and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton."

--"'I don't know how you'll see me, but I would like to be in a situation where I can offer an opposing viewpoint to Hillary Clinton,' Bachmann said during a recent interview in her Capitol Hill office. ... Foreign policy expertise, however, is not a calling card that many associate with Bachmann, despite her seat on the House Intelligence Committee and penchant for trips to Iraq, Pakistan and Kuwait. And some fellow Republicans privately acknowledge that they would just as soon see Bachmann and her controversial views fade from the scene." 
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SECRET SERVICE CHIEF RESIGNS, WHAT NEXT? POLITICO's Josh Gerstein outlines the challenges that the next director of the Secret Service will face: "President Barack Obama is hanging out the 'Help Wanted' sign again. With the resignation Wednesday of Director Julia Pierson, the Secret Service is the latest beleaguered agency to be deemed in need of a top-to-bottom housecleaning after high-profile management failures - failures that followed numerous red flags and complaints that low-ranking personnel didn't feel comfortable flagging potential problems."

--Gerstein lists five audiences that the new Secret Service director will have to win over: The Obamas, Congress, the Secret Service rank and file, the public and the press, and enemies: 
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--The resignation story, from the New York Times: "Julia Pierson resigned under pressure as director of the Secret Service on Wednesday after failing to quell a bipartisan political furor over repeated breaches of White House security and losing the confidence of the president her agency is charged with protecting. Ms. Pierson's support in the West Wing began crumbling late Tuesday, in large part because she did not tell the White House of a security failure in Atlanta last month when an armed man was allowed to ride in an elevator with President Obama at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite meeting with the president last week, Ms. Pierson informed him about the incident
 only minutes before it was reported in the news media on Tuesday evening, officials said." 
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--Roll Call's Matt Fuller writes how the Secret Service scandal may have given Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) a trial run as House Oversight chair: 
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OBAMA IMMIGRATION PUNT HURTING DEMS - The Washington Post's Ed O'Keefe: "Less than a month after President Obama announced he would delay using his executive authority to reform immigration laws, there is evidence that the decision is doing exactly what he hoped to avoid: hurting Democrats. Activists in key states say it is increasingly difficult to register would-be Latino voters who would vote for Democrats because of unhappiness over the decision. Poll numbers for Obama and Democrats have also dropped farther among Hispanics than the population at large. One group has even launched a campaign against four Democratic senators who backed a GOP proposal to bar Obama from taking any
 executive action on immigration ... 'The president has not helped us,' said activist Leo Murietta, 28, who is working to register Latino voters in Colorado for Mi Familia Vota."

--"On a busy day, Murietta and his team fan out to find would-be voters at grocery stores, elementary schools and bus stops in Denver and Pueblo, Colo. Murietta said the typical number of sign-ups has plummeted from maybe a dozen a day before Obama's decision to as few as three a day now ... There's similar resistance in Arizona, said Raquel Teran, who leads a team of 35 scouring the Phoenix and Tucson areas for new voters." 
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--Reuters' Richard Cowan and Julia Edwards previews Obama's speech tonight before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute gala: "Obama, who for the past two years missed the annual gala held by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, will return to the group and reiterate his ongoing commitment to immigration reform, according to a White House official. The official, who asked not to be identified, said Obama also will say he intends to fix as much of the U.S. immigration system as he can by using his presidential powers." 
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--Obama's speech to the gala is scheduled to begin around 8:25 p.m.

MUST-CLICK - Jim McDermott. As Bruce Lee. Enough said: 
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MCCONNELL'S AG DEMANDS - The Senate's top Republican - and perhaps future majority leader - tells Breitbart News that he wants Attorney General Eric Holder's successor to oppose executive overreach on immigration and other issues. The statement: "As attorney general, Eric Holder too often put political and ideological commitments ahead of the rule of law. That's not something the American people expect in the nation's highest law-enforcement official, and it's something Mr. Holder's replacement should commit to avoiding at all costs as a condition of his or her confirmation - whether it relates to the President's acting unilaterally on immigration or anything else." 
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--A short list for Holder's replacement, via POLITICO's Edward-Isaac Dovere and Josh Gerstein, include former White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli as front-runners: 
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--Put House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) in the Perez camp. The highest-ranking Latino in Congress introduced the Labor secretary to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Public Policy Conference on Wednesday by saying: "We have a great name of someone who could be nominated to replace Attorney General Holder ... I, for one, would place my vote with Tom Perez."

@edatpost: After his speech, asked by reporters about the AG buzz, Tom Perez insists 'My focus is on the Department of Labor.'

HONDA CHIEF OF STAFF APOLOGIZES - Josh Richman of the San Jose Mercury News: "Rep. Mike Honda&#39;s chief of staff has apologized for blurring the line between her official duties and her work on his re-election campaign ....[Emails] showed that Honda&#39;s top aide, Jennifer Van der Heide, consulted with Lamar Heystek, then political director of Honda&#39;s campaign, about whom to invite to a State Department round-table that Honda was co-hosting that month at Santa Clara University .... 'The congressman expects that official staff who want to volunteer on his campaign do so on their own time, and without utilizing the resources of the office,' she said. 'In this instance, while I was on
 my own time and not using official resources, I fell short of the congressman&#39;s expectations and the example I try to set for the office. I have apologized to the congressman for my oversight.'" 
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HUDDLE SNEAK PEEK - Speaker John Boehner's office will go live with this later today bracketing President Barack Obama's economic speech in Chicago: "For the umpteenth time, President Obama is attempting to 'refocus attention on the economy' - this time with a speech on 'economic greatness.' The trouble is, the Obama economy is anything but 'great' for the vast majority of Americans who are paying the price for the president's failed policies with higher costs, stagnant wages, and too few opportunities to get ahead." Then it lists five economic indicators under the Obama administration: 
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GOOD THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 2, 2014 and welcome to The Huddle, your play-by-play preview of all the action on Capitol Hill. Please keep those tips, suggestions, comments, complaints, and corrections coming to 
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PELOSI: BRING BACK CONGRESS FOR ISIL VOTE - Michael McAuliff of the Huffington Post writes that the House minority leader is splitting with Speaker John Boehner's contention that the White House should propose an authorization measure against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant targets: " 'If you want to define an authorization, which defines, to use the word again, the authority that you&#39;re giving the president, you don&#39;t wait for the president to write it,' Pelosi told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference. 'Congress writes it, because we are asserting our willingness to vote for a plan of action.'"
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--Also from that press conference, WaPo's Paul Kane writes up Pelosi's most definitive statement yet that she'll stick around a couple of years: " 'I am staying on for two more years. I'm running for re-election,' she said. Pelosi did not specifically say whether she would stay on as minority leader, but it&#39;s impossible to think she would leave her leadership post and return to the rank-and-file after eight years as minority leader and four more as speaker." 
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TOM DELAY EXONERATED - The Houston Chronicle: "Texas&#39; highest criminal appellate court on Wednesday refused to reinstate charges against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, clearing him of wrongdoing in a now nearly decade old money laundering and conspiracy case. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals handed down the 8-1 ruling Wednesday. In it, the majority agreed with an earlier ruling from the 3rd Court of Appeals throwing out DeLay&#39;s conviction for money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering by illegally funneling corporate money to state candidates." 
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MANCHIN: ELECT LANDRIEU, AVOID CANTWELL -- The centrist West Virginia senator, campaigning for Mary Landrieu in Louisiana, had this to say on a conference call with reporters: "'Without Mary, we - those of us that come from energy states, such as West Virginia and Louisiana - we&#39;re dead. We&#39;re absolutely dead,' .... If Landrieu loses and Democrats retained control of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., would likely ascend to replace her. Manchin called Cantwell 'a very good person, a very good friend of all of ours, but very, very leaning in a different left mode,' regarding environmental policies." 
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RAND PAUL: U.S. DOWNPLAYING EBOLA FEARS - CNN: "Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that experts and government officials are downplaying the Ebola threat, and he speculated whether the U.S. may end up with a 'whole ship full' of American soldiers infected with the virus ... Speaking to conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham, Paul questioned whether the Obama administration should carry out its plan to send 3,000 troops to Ebola hot zones in Africa." 
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