Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Arizona redistricting case holds up campaigns — Female N.H. Dems say Hillary doesn’t need to run woman-centric campaign — Big-picture look at Senate fundraising
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 08:01:59 -0600

By Kevin Robillard

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO -- ARIZONA REDISTRICTING CASE HOLDS UP RACES: Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer looks at how a pending Supreme Court case putting Arizona's GOP-dominated legislature against the state's independent redistricting commission is holding up potentially competitive House races: 
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-- Our full 2016 Senate first-quarter fundraising chart is available for Campaign Pro subscribers: 
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SESTAK FUNDRAISING STRUGGLES- Former Rep. Joe Sestak took his sweet time revealing his Pennsylvania Senate fundraising numbers, and now we know why. Pro's Kyle Cheney: "Sestak raised just over $312,000 for the quarter, less than a sixth of the $2 million haul that incumbent GOP Sen. Pat Toomey brought in. Sestak ended the quarter with $1.7 million on hand, a slight uptick from the $1.5 million he had at the start of 2015. The numbers also reveal a major fundraising dropoff; Sestak raised a strong $510,000 in the last three months of 2014. The news is likely to intensify efforts by top national and state Democrats to find an alternative to Sestak in The marquee Senate race. Party leaders
 have reportedly been seeking another standard-bearer to challenge Sestak, including Montgomery County Commissioner Josh Shapiro."

FEMALE DEMS: CLINTON DOESN'T NEED WOMEN-CENTRIC CASE IN N.H. - New Hampshire has a long history of electing women, and Gov. Maggie Hassan and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen want to keep that tradition alive next winter. But they don't plan on making a female-centric case for their favored candidate. POLITICO's Gabriel DeBenedetti: "Clinton's advisers and allies ... think she doesn't need to make any allusions to her potentially groundbreaking candidacy - at least for now. 'I'm not sure she has to talk about it that much," said Shaheen, a former governor as well as two-term senator. 'I think it's pretty evident.' Clinton's local backers, including a huge roster of women who've won elections in New
 Hampshire, argue that the state has already proven it's very open to electing female leaders - including Clinton when she last ran for president, in 2008 - so there's no need for her to carry a gender-specific message for now." 
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-- "The Clinton campaign circulated a memo to its surrogates and allies on Tuesday night that details talking points and responses to the soon-to-be-published book 'Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich,' by conservative author Peter Schweizer. 'The book was backed by a Koch Brothers-linked organization and a billionaire family that is bankrolling Ted Cruz's presidential campaign,' writes national press secretary Brian Fallon in the memo, which was forwarded to POLITICO by one of its recipients. In the three-page note Fallon also writes that Schweizer has coordinated with Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, another
 presidential candidate and frequent Clinton critic." 
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As the Kochs choose their starting five and Darin hits D.C., here&#39;s POLITICO&#39;s Morning Score: daily news, notes and essential information for the 2015 and 2016 election cycles.

Days until the 2015 election: 194; Days until the 2016 election: 565

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ILLINOIS SPECIAL - LaHood hits up D.C. donors: GOP state Sen. Darin LaHood, the strong frontrunner in the race to succeed Rep. Aaron Schock in Illinois' 18th district, was scheduled to attend a fundraiser on Tuesday evening at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington. Tickets to the event, hosted by the state's Republican delegation, cost $500 to $1,000 a head, The Associated Press reports. It's not LaHood's first time raising money at the Capitol Hill Club, either. Bernie Robinson, a transportation lobbyist, hosted a fundraiser there for LaHood back in 2011 to raise money for his reelection to the state senate. LaHood's father, Ray LaHood, was President Barack Obama's transportation secretary
 at the time. Reached on Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the younger LaHood would not comment. 
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INVISIBLE PRIMARY: KOCHS PICK FIVE - The Koch Brothers' massive GOP fundraising network could back as many as five presidential candidates in the Republican primary: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida. "Those are the ones we have talked to the most and who seem to be the possible leaders,' Charles Koch told USA Today's Fredreka Schouten. Koch also wants to discourage negative campaigning, it seems. "We expect them to do is to compete on who has a more positive message for America, rather than what&#39;s wrong with some other candidate and did he smoke pot when he was 15 or whatever," he
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-- Koch also told the paper the fundraising group plans to spend $300 million of its two-year, $900 million budget on electoral politics.

-- Charles' comments came a day after his brother David praised Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at a fundraiser in New York, prompting reports Walker was the brothers' choice in 2016. But Koch-affiliated operatives quickly worked to walk back the statement.

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS TED CRUZ? NOT ATTENDING HEARINGS - Pro Defense ace Austin Wright had already exposed Sen. Ted Cruz's shoddy attendance at Senate Armed Services Committee hearings. But Cruz's other committee assignments haven't received much attention from the 2016 presidential candidate either. "The Texas Republican seriously lags most of his colleagues in attending hearings and casting votes in what has been a Senate career long on rhetoric and short on Senate business. He's skipped the vast majority of Armed Services Committee hearings, is below-average in attendance on his other major committees and ranks 97th during the first three months of this year in showing up for roll call
 votes on the Senate floor." Wright also found attendance problems for Sen. Marco Rubio, another presidential candidate. Rubio is one of only two senators to miss more votes than Cruz this year. 
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GETTING SCIENTIFIC - In POLITICO Magazine, Doug Sosnik argues Democrats are poised to retake the Senate in 2016: 
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=950d0246ccec4c21adbc15e64a084b48894e66246720a75bc766401b0da0bb6f  And Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics argues Hillary Clinton's relatively advanced age is unlikely to matter in the presidential contest: 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: 'You guys either never pay attention or listen. I&#39;ve said this for years: Governor was the only job I was ever running for. I wasn&#39;t on the make for anything else. Not for the Senate, president and all the rest of that. Sooner or later, you&#39;ll figure that out that when I say these things, I mean them.' - Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says he's really, really not running next year. 
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