Subject: POLITICO’s Morning Score, presented by CampaignHQ: Crossroads hits Hagan for missing security hearing -- Democrats bash Gardner on women’s issues
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 08:03:04 -0600

By Kyle Cheney

With Sarah Wheaton

FIRST LOOK - Crossroads GPS ad uses screenshot of ISIL beheader: An ad out today hammering North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan features a screen grab from the terrorist group's video, as a narrator recalls the beheading of American reporters. It's a quick but familiar image of the masked killer, with a sliver of one of his victims' orange jumpsuits visible in the lower-left corner of the screen. The ad, from the Crossroads nonprofit arm, goes on to criticize Hagan, a Democrat, for missing Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that included a discussion of ISIL's threat and then uses direct footage of Hagan explaining that she missed it because of scheduling changes. "Kay Hagan skipped the
 hearing for a fundraiser," a male narrator says as the ad concludes. 
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-- Hagan ad rips Tillis on women's issues: Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan's campaign is releasing an ad today hammering Republican Thom Tillis on his position on equal pay legislation. The ad claims that as speaker of the North Carolina House, he killed an equal pay bill and worked to defund Planned Parenthood. "Not someone our women and families can trust," a female narrator says. 
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EXCLUSIVE: The DSCC is changing traffic in Colorado, releasing a new ad featuring women criticizing Republican Cory Gardner for his position on women's issues - and accusing him of misrepresenting himself to voters. "His name is on the bill to make abortion illegal - and he's denying it," a woman says, a reference to Gardner's sponsorship of federal personhood legislation. It's the latest flashpoint in a contest that's focused heavily on women's issues, from abortion to access to birth control. 
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STRATEGY SESSION - "How one Republican has withstood abortion attacks," by POLITICO's Manu Raju in Greenwood Village, Colo.: "Listen to Cory Gardner these days and you might think he backs abortion rights. Calling himself "a new kind of Republican," the affable Senate hopeful looks earnestly into the camera in his TV ads and tells voters not to believe Democratic Sen. Mark Udall's attacks on his record on women's issues ... If Gardner prevails, he will likely be held up as a model for how conservatives can blunt Democrats' attempts to portray the GOP as anti-women. If he doesn't, it could very well be because enough voters don't forgive easily on a bedrock issue like abortion." 
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AIR WARS - First in Score: NARAL Pro-Choice is going up Sunday with a spot attacking Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. The ad, a five-figure, one-week buy in Madison ,Milwaukee, Green Bay and LaCrosse/Eau Claire media markets. The ad is intended as a response to a recent Walker ad that suggests he's stayed out of women's health care decisions. The ad features a Madison woman accusing Walker of dishonesty and of signing legislation that interferes with women's health options. 
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As Orman gets an assist from wealthy backers and courts stymie voter ID laws, here&#39;s POLITICO&#39;s Morning Score: your daily guide to the 2014 midterms.

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POPPING THIS MORNING - "Billionaires for Orman," by POLITICO's Kenneth P. Vogel and Tarini Parti: "A small group of free-spending wild card donors, including investment tycoons Peter Ackerman and John Burbank, are rallying to support Greg Orman's independent Senate campaign in Kansas. Michael Bloomberg and a Jonathan Soros-backed group are also considering entering the campaign on Orman's behalf, POLITICO has learned. It's a dramatic twist for a candidate who staunchly opposes big money in politics but has been badly outspent on the airwaves after surging to a surprise lead over Republican Sen. Pat Roberts." 
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FIGHT NIGHT -LA-Sen: "Landrieu, Maness slam absent Cassidy," by POLITICO's Burgess Everett from New Orleans: "Sen. Mary Landrieu hammered Rep. Bill Cassidy for his positions on entitlements and the minimum wage. Conservative Col. Rob Maness accused Cassidy of being a 'career politician' no different from Landrieu. But Cassidy couldn't hear them - the Republican wasn't on the stage Thursday night. Just one day after Landrieu shook up her campaign leadership and drew scrutiny from the Louisiana and Washington chattering class, the spotlight in this critical Senate race shifted to Cassidy's decision to ignore the contest's first televised debate. And his absence allowed his rivals to hammer
 him with no resistance." 
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CO-Sen: Democratic Sen. Mark Udall and Republican Cory Gardner debated for the third time this week, but it took on a markedly sharper tone than their previous two meetings, the Associated Press reports. The pair battled over women's issues, immigration and even ebola. 
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IL-Gov: There was little love lost between Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and his Republican rival Bruce Rauner as the pair traded barbs for an hour about who would lead Illinois down a more destructive road, the Chicago Sun-Times reports: 
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CLINTON CAM -- Hillary Clinton will be in Rhode Island on Oct. 24 to stump for Democrat Gina Raimondo, the state treasurer who's in a tight race for Rhode Island governor. POLITICO's Maggie Haberman reports that the visit is part of a fall campaign schedule that includes stops in more than a dozen states. 
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-- "Clinton gives rousing speech in Philadelphia," by Maggie Haberman from Philadelphia: "The all-but-certain 2016 presidential hopeful, battered for much of the past year for lost opportunities to come up with a rationale for a second campaign, gave one of her strongest political speeches since her 2008 campaign ended [at an event for Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Tom Wolf] ... Clinton focused on 'hard-working families' and restoring America's luster and a strong middle class with 'a fresh start,' as well as women's pay equity and her gauzy first days as a new grandmother."

"For the first time in months, Clinton's public talk was neither a dry recitation of public policy nor a self-reflection about her tenure as secretary of state ... the themes in her first open political event in a year seem certain to form the basis of a campaign message if she declares a campaign for president next year." 
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RACE TO NOVEMBER - "Rhode Island&#39;s Fung cancels on Bloomberg," by POLITICO's Dylan Byers: Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate and Cranston mayor Allan Fung canceled a scheduled meeting with the Bloomberg editorial board after learning that the organization&#39;s founder and chief executive, former mayor Michael Bloomberg, intends to support his opponent. 'Mayor Fung was excited to share his vision of government reform and Main Street economic plans with the editorial board,' Fung spokesman Robert Coupe said in a statement. 'However, we were dismayed to learn of Michael Bloomberg&#39;s plans to spend millions of dollars to support candidates including Gina Raimondo.'" 
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TODAY ON POLITICO - Twin decisions reshape voter ID battle, by Josh Gerstein:

--Wisconsin: "In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin from implementing a new voter ID law in next month&#39;s election. The high court released an order late Thursday that revived a permanent injunction a federal court judge imposed in April, barring enforcement of the 2011 law on the grounds that it discriminates against minorities by forcing many of them to get new identification." 
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--Texas: "A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a stricter voter ID law passed by the state Legislature violates the federal Voting Rights Act and is unconstitutional." 
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FACTCHECK.ORG WHOPPER OF THE WEEK: Alison Lundergan Grimes is this week's "winner." Her ad claimed Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, "personally took $600,000 from anti-coal groups." Where did most of this alleged "anti-coal" money come from? Wells Fargo. Yes, the bank. Chao received $684,000 over the last three years as a member of the bank's board of directors. Wells Fargo in 2006 - five years before Chao joined the board - initiated a policy not to extend credit to mountaintop removal projects (MTR) "or to a coal producer that receives a majority of its production from MTR mining." But it still lends billions to coal companies. The Sierra
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