Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Senators slam Rand Paul — Labor goes after California Democrat — Bush still isn’t running
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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 08:05:12 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

With Kyle Cheney and Steven Shepard

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Khanna ready for Honda rematch," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: 
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RAND'S STAND - "GOP senators tear into Paul," by POLITICO's Manu Raju and Burgess Everett: Republican senators attacked Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in a closed-door party meeting on Sunday, hours before the presidential candidate succeeded in preventing the Senate from reauthorizing key provisions of the PATRIOT Act. "Indiana Sen. Dan Coats' criticism was perhaps the most biting: He accused the senator of "lying" about the matter in order to raise money for his presidential campaign, according to three people who attended the meeting." "He obviously has a higher priority for his fundraising and political ambitions than for the security of the nation," Arizona Sen. John McCain added. 
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LABOR HITS BERA - "Labor has found a Democrat to punish on trade," by POLITICO's Edward-Isaac Dovere: "The AFL-CIO has been threatening for weeks to make an example of a Democrat who dares support giving the president fast-track trade authority - a warning shot to others leaning that way. And now they've picked their man: Sacramento's Ami Bera, a two-term congressman who barely held on to his seat in one of last year's most expensive House races. The union leaders are going after Bera hard. They're getting personal and vicious. And they say they don't care if it means that a Republican wins the seat instead." But Bera says he won't be bullied. "If they want to come after me, then come after
 me," he told POLITICO. 
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- Campaign Pro reported Friday that the AFL-CIO's ad buy against Bera amounted to just under $85,000: 
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As Congress rushes to reauthorize portions of the PATRIOT Act and Jeb Bush continues to insist that he's not yet running for president, here&#39;s Campaign Pro&#39;s Morning Score: daily news, notes and essential information for the 2015 and 2016 election cycles.

Days until the 2015 election: 160; Days until the 2016 election: 531.

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PETTY SQUABBLES - Granite State GOP takes a swipe at Hassan: New Hampshire Republicans took a swing at Gov. Maggie Hassan Friday, accusing the second-term Democrat of placing her anticipated challenge to Sen. Kelly Ayotte ahead of her day job. "New Hampshire deserves a full-time governor, and it's disgraceful that Maggie Hassan is focused on plotting her next career move instead of working across the aisle to craft a bipartisan state budget," state GOP Chairwoman Jennifer Horn told local radio station WMUR. But state Democrats were eager to point out that Horn's critique could just as easily be applied to several of the Republicans traversing New Hampshire as they lay the groundwork for
 presidential bids. "While New Hampshire plays hosts to sitting Republican governors running for president practically every week, Governor Hassan is working to pass a responsible -budget," said New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley in a statement to POLITICO.

- VoteVets.org is hitting Ayotte for bringing a production crew to a veterans' event she co-hosted with Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen last week. 
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DINNER THEATER - Strickland, Sittenfeld meet at Warren County dinner: The Cincinnati Enquirer's Keith BieryGolick reports from last night's annual spring dinner in Mason, where former Gov. Ted Strickland and Cincinnati city Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld both addressed the crowd: "The task ahead of Sittenfeld seemed to grow larger as the night progressed. Sittenfeld jumped into conversations, introduced himself and shook hands. Strickland had groups of people approach and ask him to pose for pictures. Audience members clapped for the 30-year-old Sittenfeld. They gave 73-year-old Strickland a standing ovation." 
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BEVIN'S FIRST WEEKEND AS GOP NOMINEE - Shortly after James Comer said Friday morning he wouldn't pursue a recount of the May 19 primary, Kentucky GOP gubernatorial nominee Matt Bevin began to dismiss the idea that any Republican infighting would hamper his candidacy. 
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- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wasn't at Saturday night's Lincoln Day Dinner, but Bevin used humor to try to bridge the gap between them, the Lexington Herald-Leader's Sam Youngman reports. 
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PROBLEMS FOR POLLSTERS - "New 'robocall' rules could leave pollsters in the dark," by Campaign Pro's Steve Shepard: "For many Americans, the idea of technology that can block automated telephone calls sounds like a solution to all those annoying "robocalls" and interrupted family dinners. But to the nation's pollsters and campaign professionals, many of whom are gearing up for the 2016 election cycle, a federal government proposal circulated Wednesday to encourage phone companies to embrace the technology feels like an existential threat. The proposed rules are 'potentially devastating to the survey, opinion and marketing research profession,' said Howard Fienberg, director of governmental
 affairs at the Marketing Research Association. 'The FCC and the chairman are playing fast and loose with their terms, using unwanted calls, telemarketing calls and robocalls interchangeably, and conflating illegal telemarketing scams with legitimate calls.'" 
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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Paul campaign video appears to run afoul of Senate rules," by POLITICO's Burgess Everett: "Sen. Rand Paul may have taken his stand against government surveillance a little too far in his presidential campaign. In a campaign video released on Friday that includes explicit links to a campaign donation page, Paul (R-Ky.) extensively uses footage from his lengthy speech on the Senate floor on May 20 against bulk data collection and surveillance in the PATRIOT Act. The Senate 'strictly' prohibits any use of its proceedings for campaign activities." 
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- "Jeb Bush to Bob Schieffer: No decision yet," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols: "In his final show as host of CBS&#39; "Face The Nation," Bob Schieffer pressed Jeb Bush to come clean about his "obvious" intentions as an official presidential candidate but the former Florida governor demurred again - and again. 'It's pretty obvious that you're running for president,' Schieffer told Bush, who was making his first appearance on a Sunday morning show of the year. 'You're going around the country, you're raising huge amounts of money for your super PAC, in addition to making all the traditional campaign stops everywhere.' But Bush continued to insist that he has yet to decide whether he'll actually
 run." 
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- "Hillary Clinton campaign scores Ready for Hillary email list," by POLITICO's Annie Karni: "Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign late last week obtained access to the full Ready for Hillary email list, a data gold mine that will immediately bolster the Democratic front-runner's fundraising and organizing efforts. The campaign gained entry to the independent super PAC's list through a swap with another independent group, a Democrat with knowledge of the list told POLITICO, and is expected to begin emailing it immediately. ... Access to the list of close to 4 million names came after senior campaign officials admitted they were relying in part on an outdated supporter list from 2008." 
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- New Fiorina video touts "momentum": Watch: 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Yeah, it stings a little, but it's so worth it." - Bevin, as he pretends to get a "Team Mitch" tattoo in a video released this weekend designed to patch things up with McConnell. 
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