Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Guinta fight rips apart N.H. Republicans — Club pulls ads hitting Utah Republicans
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Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 08:01:59 -0600

By Kyle Cheney

With Elena Schneider and Steven Shepard

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GRANITE STATE- "Guinta scandal splits New Hampshire Republicans," by Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer, with Jake Sherman: "Sen. Kelly Ayotte has gone out on a political limb in urging her New Hampshire Republican colleague, Rep. Frank Guinta, to resign his House seat for lying about $355,000 in illegal campaign contributions from his parents. The sudden split between the two Republicans in the congressional delegation has riled the state party and upended the race among GOP presidential contenders for support from local officials in the first-in-the-nation primary ... While several state party leaders have joined her call for Guinta's resignation, Ayotte isn't getting as much backup from
 other Republicans as she might have liked. The state party's executive committee, for instance, declined to ask Guinta to step down when it met earlier this week. 'Is there daylight between the party and her? Clearly,' said one Republican familiar with Ayotte's thinking, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 'Is that ideal? No.'" 
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As Bennet and Coffman show a little camaraderie and Santorum gets angry about "arbitrary" debate rules, here&#39;s Campaign Pro&#39;s Morning Score: daily news, notes and essential information for the 2015 and 2016 election cycles.

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A POLITICAL HEADACHE IN THE WORLD'S FIRST DOMED STADIUM: A 50-year-old condemned Astrodome has many taxpayers fuming. "Didn't we already vote on this?" Read about the one man who is desperately trying to find investors to keep the building standing in the latest installment ofPOLITICO Magazine's 'What Works.' 
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TEAM OF RIVALS - Bennet and Coffman praise VA deal: Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and GOP Rep. Mike Coffman both praised Congress today for a three-week funding extension for a troubled Veterans Affairs hospital in Aurora, Colo., which could be a campaign issue for both Coloradans. House leaders agreed to raise the cap for the project to $900 million before construction ended on Sunday without more funds. "I am greatly relieved that we will have more time to negotiate a longer term deal for the Aurora VA hospital," Coffman, chairman of the House Veterans Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said in a statement. "The VA ignored my warnings for two years that the Aurora hospital was
 out-of-control, and their refusal to heed my warnings has made a bad situation much worse." Earlier this week, House Speaker John Boehner criticized the VA and the White House for its mismanagement of the project, stoking fears that no deal would be reached. But the stop-gap deal came in just under the wire before lawmakers leave the capital for Memorial Day weekend.

AIR WAR - Club goes after Ex-Im Bank backers: The Club for Growth is airing television ads attacking embattled Pennsylvania Rep. Bill Shuster and three other Republican members in safe GOP districts for supporting renewal of the Export-Import Bank. 'There&#39;s a scandal around Congressman Bill Shuster,' the 
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ad  airing in the Johnstown, Pa. market says while showing a headline about Shuster&#39;s romance with an airline lobbyist. 'No, not that scandal. It&#39;s called the Export-Import Bank and it scandalously wastes billions of tax dollars.' Another 
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ad , airing in the Clarksburg and Wheeling markets in West Virginia, hits Rep. David McKinley, who is considering a run for governor. It notes both President Barack Obama and likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton support extending the bank&#39;s charter. The ads are part of a $1 million campaign supporting elimination of the bank that began last month by criticizing Reps. Bill Flores of Texas, Renee Ellmers of North Carolina, Stephen Fincher of Tennessee and Buddy Carter of Georgia.

- The Club is cancelling a Salt Lake City market ad buy pressuring GOP Reps. Rob Bishop and Chris Stewart after the duo announced their opposition to reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank. 'Utah can be proud of their bold representation,' Club for Growth President David McIntosh said in a statement. The ads were set to run this weekend.

PROGRAMMING NOTE - Morning Score will be off on Monday for the Memorial Day holiday. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled publication on Tuesday a.m.

2016 SPEED READ:

- "Bush vs. Bush," by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt: "Jeb Bush is trying to put out the fire over his bobbled answers on whether the United States was right to invade Iraq, but there's a group of people fanning the flames: His brother's top advisers. In TV appearances, magazine articles, and interviews, the aides and confidants who helped steer the George W. Bush White House have criticized, tweaked, and prodded Jeb Bush - some more harshly than others - over his bungled remarks, which have presented the former Florida governor with the first major PR crisis of his soon-to-be announced presidential campaign. While Jeb Bush's team tried to calm the furor, the critiques from George W. Bush's team
 helped keep the firestorm alive." 
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- "POLITICO Magazine: Jeb Bush's Mexican Revolution," by POLITICO's Michael Kruse: "He was born in Midland, Texas; and he spent a good bit of his boyhood in Houston; and he went to high school in Andover, Massachusetts, and college in Austin, Texas; and he has lived for the past three and a half decades in a suburb of Miami - but at the top of the list of the most important places in the world in the life of Jeb Bush is the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, and its old, conservative, heavily religious city of Leon. Leon is why he proposed marriage in Spanish. Leon is why his children are Mexican-American. Leon is why his favorite foods are enchiladas and chilaquiles. Leon is a big part
 of why he's Catholic." 
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- Clinton to hold first rally: POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti reports that Hillary Clinton will hold her campaign's first major event, a formal announcement rally, on June 13, her official Twitter account said Thursday afternoon. The Democratic front-runner had initially intended to host a large rally sometime in May after announcing her candidacy in April, but the event was delayed while Clinton raised campaign funds and held small events in the early-voting states. It is unclear where the event will take place, but the campaign has recently been teasing it as a speech in front of "thousands of people." It will be the candidate's first large address, as each of her campaign appearances so
 far has been a small round-table composed of pre-selected locals.

- Clintons made $12 million for speeches: POLITICO's Josh Gerstein reports that Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton brought in more than $12 million for their foundation since 2001 by delivering a total of 97 speeches across the U.S. and around the world, according to data disclosed for the first time Thursday night. The priciest speeches were addresses Bill Clinton made that were paid for by an Irish scholarship fund, a Korean conglomerate and a Nigerian newspaper company, each of which paid more than half a million dollars.

- "Rick Santorum Rips Fox News Over 'Arbitrary' Debate Rules," by National Journal's Tim Alberta in Oklahoma City: "Rick Santorum on Thursday ripped Fox News&#39; newly-announced criteria for qualifying in the network&#39;s Aug. 6 Republican presidential debate, calling the guidelines 'arbitrary' and 'not legitimate.' ... If the first debate were held right now, under those rules, Santorum would be left out - a reality that was not lost on him when asked by National Journal about the situation after his speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference here. 'I&#39;m probably the best person to comment on this. In January of 2012 I was at 4 percent in the national polls, and I won the
 Iowa caucuses. I don&#39;t know if I was last in the polls, but I was pretty close to last,' Santorum said." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "The Patriots can band together. Frank Guinta is standing by himself right now." - Former New Hampshire Gov. Steve Merrill, comparing Guinta to the New England Patriots football team, which has been sanctioned by the NFL for cheating.

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