Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Clinton talks with the press in Iowa — Jeb! launches
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Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 08:10:57 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

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SHE SPEAKS - Clinton gives her first two interviews of the campaign: Hillary Clinton touched on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Iraq, Obamacare and Clinton fatigue in interviews with The Des Moines Register and Radio Iowa on Sunday after her rally in Des Moines. A few highlights:

- On a potential trade deal: "Any trade agreement is going to be fraught with all sorts of problems," Clinton told Radio Iowa. "I've voted for them and I've voted against them and I voted against Fast Track in the Bush Administration, so I am someone who has seen the pluses and the minuses of trade agreements. ... I think that in today's world it is a very hard road to manage any trade agreement, especially with so many parties. ... What I have advised ... is that the president take the opportunity offered by staunch allies like Nancy Pelosi ... and try to figure out how to use this as leverage, to go back to the other countries and say: 'You want a lot out of this. I need more.'" 
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- On Iraq: "I do not believe that U.S. troops should be on the ground in Iraq doing combat," Clinton told Radio Iowa. "I think what the president is trying to accomplish is using the unique skills that the American military has in intelligence, surveillance, training to buttress the efforts of the Iraqis themselves and I have supported the president's approach to dealing with this very serious threat."

- On her husband's record: Clinton told the Register that Americans have "collective amnesia" about the problems Bill Clinton and Barack Obama inherited from the Republican predecessors when they took office. 'We&#39;re not supposed to remember that the 12 years preceding Bill Clinton quadrupled the debt of our country?' she asked. 'We&#39;re not supposed to remember that when he left office, we had a balanced budget with a surplus? And if it had been continued would&#39;ve paid off the national debt? We&#39;re not supposed to remember that Barack Obama inherited the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression and had to pull us out of the ditch? And did a better job than he gets
 credit for? And we&#39;re not supposed to remember that finally after five presidents trying all the way back to Truman, we got an Affordable Care Act?' 
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- POLITICO's Glenn Thrush has five takeaways from Clinton's speech in New York on Saturday, which he writes "had the discursive and intimate quality of a Facebook stream, as if Clinton were sending a friend request to the entire Democratic Party and hoping for the best." 
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MONEY IN POLITICS - "State and local bills try to rein in political spending," by POLITICO's Tarini Parti: "Efforts to rein in money in politics might be considered dead on arrival in Congress since a Supreme Court decision opened the door to unlimited contributions to allies of presidential hopefuls. But in statehouses and city halls across the country, reform efforts are gaining traction. From the conservative statehouse in Texas to the liberal city council in Philadelphia, measures aimed at curbing the flow of political money or disclosing its sources are being introduced and supported by members of both parties. Overall, more than 125 bills dealing with campaign finance reform have been
 introduced in 33 statehouses in the past five months, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics. More have been introduced in cities as well." 
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- Feingold asks Johnson to disavow outside spending: Russ Feingold is asking GOP Sen. Ron Johnson to keep outside money out of Wisconsin&#39;s Senate race. The former Democratic senator asked Johnson in a letter on Friday to adopt a pledge modeled after Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren&#39;s pledge in their 2012 Senate contest. 'Senator Ron Johnson and I agree that in this election Wisconsinites deserve a substantive debate on the issues, a desire that could be derailed by limitless anonymous spending and the influence of third party groups,' Feingold said. 'To accomplish this mutual goal I&#39;m asking Senator Johnson to sign the Badger Pledge, the only agreement proven to limit the tens
 of millions of dollars from outside Super PACs and dark money groups on both sides of the aisle.' Feingold&#39;s proposal was first reported by The Associated Press.

- Feingold, a hero of campaign finance reformers and the author of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, famously wouldn&#39;t allow the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to air ads on his behalf during the 2010 contest between the two men. The agreement would bar involvement from the DSCC, NRSC, the pro-Democratic Senate Majority PAC or any of the numerous super PACs backing House and Senate Republicans. But there&#39;s a risk for Feingold: Johnson, a wealthy businessman, was able to self-fund his first campaign. While he's signaled he doesn&#39;t intend to spend a lot of his own money on this race, Feingold wouldn&#39;t be able to rely on outside spending if Johnson decides to
 do so.

A GUILTY PLEA - Ex-staffer admits to lying about sexual harassment in California race: A former staffer for Carl DeMaio, a Republican who unsuccessfully challenged Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) last year, admitted in federal court on Friday to falsely smearing DeMaio in the weeks before the election. The staffer, Todd Bosnich, admitted that "he lied when he claimed to have gotten an anonymous email threatening that he would never work again in politics if he revealed that he had been sexually harassed by DeMaio," The Los Angeles Times reported. "During the campaign, Bosnich had told reporters that he was 'positive' that the email came from DeMaio or someone close to him. He told federal
 investigators that DeMaio would often send emails and Twitter messages 'using alias accounts.' But in his guilty plea, Bosnich admitted that he sent the email himself through a dummy Yahoo account and then took the email to the Peters campaign, which turned it over to the San Diego Police Department." 
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AND A SENTENCE IN ANOTHER CASE - GOP operative gets two-year sentence for illegal coordination: Tyler Harber, the former Republican political consultant who was convicted earlier this year on charges of illegally coordinating between a 2012 congressional campaign and a super PAC, was sentenced in federal court this morning in Alexandria, Va., to two years in prison. At the time, the Justice Department said Harber's prosecution was the first nationally for illegal coordination. The charges stemmed from his work in 2012 for Chris Perkins, a Republican challenger to Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly in Virginia's 11th District. (Connolly defeated Perkins by 25 points in the general election).
 According to the Justice Department, Harber worked for Perkins while simultaneously creating and operating a super PAC that spent $325,000 on political ads opposing a rival candidate.

JEB! LAUNCHES - "In crowded field, Bush runs as the grown-up candidate," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols in Miami: "Jeb Bush isn't a fresh face. The conservative base isn't enamored of him. And his family name isn't necessarily an asset. Yet when Bush climbs the stage at Miami Dade College Monday to announce for president, there won't be a radical makeover. It isn't really an option. His months as a candidate-in-waiting - which have seen him lose his once-undisputed front-runner status and fade to a middle-of-the-pack candidate in Iowa - have further boxed him in, surrounding him with younger, seemingly more dynamic candidates. That leaves Bush with one straightforward path to the GOP nomination:
 an argument based on his durability and electability. As he explained to reporters on his foreign trip last week, he'll remain 'authentic' to the political persona he's carved out over two decades in the public eye. Bush expects to win by emphasizing traits that seem almost quaint by modern campaign standards: maturity, substance and a record of governance - that and his conviction that he's the party's best shot of winning the general election." 
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- "Jeb Bush's 18-month shadow campaign," by POLITICO Florida's Marc Caputo: "Monday, 18 months after he made the first real steps toward running for the White House, Bush drops the pretense and makes his candidacy official. His speech at Miami-Dade College follows a mammoth and meticulous effort launched in late 2013, when Bush hired a team of four longtime loyalists to help him manage his schedule and begin what they simply call the "process" of examining a potential White House bid. Part of the process was managing the expectations of the news media, denying the seriousness of Bush's intentions without outright spreading falsehoods about his interest. As a result, many in the world of
 national politics thought it more likely than not that Jeb wouldn't run in 2016, especially because they were certain his protege, Sen. Marco Rubio, would." 
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- "Jeb's smooth money machine," by POLITICO's Anna Palmer and Tarini Parti: "Jeb Bush's laser focus on fundraising has sent him crisscrossing the country over the last six months to headline roughly 70 money events as he tries to smash existing presidential campaign records. Rarely taking more than a day or two off from the money chase, Bush has held fundraisers in at least 15 different states and Puerto Rico, with event tickets ranging from $25 to $100,000 per person. Not surprisingly, he has raked in millions from swings through New York, California and Washington, but he's also done at least 10 events in his home state of Florida and five in Texas, where he can tap into the donor network
 previously created by his brother and father, former Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. The full-court press is a key component of his campaign strategy to shut out potential rivals from mega donors, cement himself as the Republican establishment candidate and create the most ambitious presidential fundraising operation in history - all before even announcing his White House bid." 
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- "How a devastating loss in Florida taught Jeb Bush what it takes to win," by The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty: In the years following his narrow defeat in the Florida governor's race in 1994, "Bush retooled himself and his image from that of a sometimes cartoonish ideologue into what he is today. Indeed, as he prepares to 
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formally announce his bid  for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, the question being asked is whether he is strident enough. Humbled by defeat the first time he ran for office, Bush spent the mid-1990s broadening and deepening his knowledge of how his state worked, forging relationships that softened his profile and striving to talk about what he believed in a way that would bring people together." 
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- "How Miami made Jeb Bush," by The Miami Herald's Patricia Mazzei: This deep dive into Bush's relationship with his adopted city includes numerous anecdotes of Bush using Cuban colloquialisms, including slang for "what a sh--storm." "Jeb is Cuban. He's Nicaraguan. He's Venezuelan," Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) told the Herald. "The stamp of South Florida is in his DNA." 
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- Bush was endorsed Friday by 11 of the 17 Florida GOP members of the congressional delegation, plus three statewide officials. 
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- In some non-Bush related news: New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie will make a decision on whether to run for president this month, he told ABC's "This Week" on Sunday. 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Back in December, I came in and said, 'Listen, I don't need a job, I don't need any money, but I've always wanted to learn how to put together and take apart bikes.'" - Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who's assembled almost 40 bikes at a New Hampshire bike shop since losing his challenge to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) last year. 
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