Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Breitbart coverage helps out Flynn — McSally raises $1 million — Sierra Club hits Kirk
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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 08:03:55 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer

With Kevin Robillard, Elena Schneider and Steven Shepard

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TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO - "Breitbart boosts long-shot Flynn in IL-18 bid," by Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer and POLITICO's Hadas Gold:
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FIRST IN SCORE - McSally pulls in a cool million: Freshman Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) raised more than $1 million in the second quarter, according to her campaign, giving her more than $1.4 million in cash on hand. Her campaign didn't provide spending figures, but she has about $600,000 more in cash on hand than her campaign had last quarter. McSally doesn't yet have a Democratic opponent.

CASH HUSTLE - Edwards brings in $590,000 in second quarter: Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards raised $590,000 in the second quarter for her Senate bid, her campaign said on Friday - a rare holiday release. Edwards&#39; haul is an improvement from her first quarter - when she raised just $335,000 - but is likely to be dwarfed by the amount collected by her main rival for the Democratic nomination, Rep. Chris Van Hollen. The campaign didn&#39;t reveal a cash-on-hand number. She ended the first quarter with $325,000 on hand. A Van Hollen campaign official said Thursday the campaign would likely report having between $3.5 million and $4 million on hand, but the campaign was still tallying the total
 raised in the second quarter. Van Hollen had $2.7 million on hand at the start of the quarter, combining his Senate and House accounts.

- DesJarlais challenger raises $721,000 in second quarter: Grant Starrett, the 27-year-old who says he's running against Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) from the right, pulled in $721,000 in the second quarter, including a $250,000 contribution from the candidate. It's an impressive number, but it actually represents a bit of a slowdown for Starrett. He'd announced in April that he'd raised more than $500,000 in his first week in the race, including his own contribution.

DEMOCRATIC INFIGHTING - "Clinton puts tight grip on DNC wallet," by POLITICO's Edward Isaac-Dovere: Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee have been struggling to finalize a joint fundraising agreement. The problem: the Clinton campaign doesn't trust the DNC with the money. "[Y]ears of neglect from the White House - and what's perceived by the campaign as mismanagement by DNC leadership - has left the Clinton camp convinced the organization is nowhere near ready for 2016." 
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PARTISAN ATTACKS - "Democrats hit Hardy on business debts, tax liens," by Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: For Campaign Pro subscribers: 
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AD WAR - Sierra Club hits Kirk over environment votes: The Sierra Club has a full-page ad in Monday's edition of The Daily Herald, the Chicago suburban newspaper, calling out Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) for voting against new Environmental Protection Agency rules for power plants. The group is also running targeted digital ads hitting Kirk on the issue this week in the Chicago and Washington markets. See the newspaper ad: 
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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Filibuster divides GOP 2016 contenders," by POLITICO's Daniel Strauss and Burgess Everett: "The Senate's arcane rules are creating new fissures in the 2016 presidential primary: Candidates from outside Washington are vowing to gut the filibuster in order to repeal the Affordable Care Act, while GOP senators pursuing the White House want to keep the time-honored 60-vote threshold. Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt is aiming to turn the obscure Senate rules into a litmus test for Republicans candidates, asking every contender on his radio show if they are prepared to kill what remains of the Senate's supermajority requirement to gut Obamacare." Who's said yes so
 far? Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush would consider it. 
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- "Walker aims to blaze midwestern trail to White House," by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt: "When he formally announces his presidential bid in a Milwaukee suburb next week, Scott Walker's campaign will have an unmistakably Midwestern stamp on it, from a stump speech that features giant Midwestern retailer Kohl's to a primary season strategy pegged to Iowa and Michigan. The idea is to position the Wisconsin governor as the favorite son of the Midwest, where he hopes to run up the score beginning with Iowa next February. Walker has so far raised nearly $30 million for his effort, according to two sources briefed in his campaign's finances - much of it collected from powerful heartland
 benefactors." 
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- "Scott Walker's wife, toughened by life, adds steel to candidate's spine," by The Washington Post's Mary Jordan: Jordan profiles Gov. Scott Walker's wife, Tonette. "A particularly tough day for the family came a little more than a week ago, when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in favor of same-sex marriage." Scott Walker called the decision a "grave mistake. "Tonette Walker heard immediately about her husband's response from the couple's two sons, Matt and Alex, who are taking time off from college to help their father's campaign. ... 'That was a hard one,' Tonette said, pausing and choosing her words carefully. 'Our sons were disappointed. ... I was torn. I have children who are very
 passionate [in favor of same-sex marriage], and Scott was on his side very passionate.'" 
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Craig Gilbert has detailed interview with Walker pollster Ed Goeas: "After the burst of attention sparked by the Iowa speech last January, the campaign mantra in recent months has been 'slow down, don't get ahead of the supply lines ... don't turn this into a nationwide campaign when it's not a nationwide campaign. That's coming,' said Goeas, referring to Walker's official kick-off one week from Monday in Waukesha." 
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- Sen. Marco Rubio may have a better shot at becoming president than any Cuban-American ever has, but he's not exactly popular in Cuba: "If Marco Rubio becomes president, we're done for,"Hector Montiel, 66, told The New York Times' Jason Horowitz while sitting on the Havana street where Rubio's father grew up. "He's against Cuba in every possible way. Hillary Clinton understands much more the case of Cuba. Rubio and these Republicans, they are still stuck in 1959." 
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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "She is not a political junkie who gets up in the morning and reads RedState, Drudge, Politico or The Washington Post." - Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch on Gov. Scott Walker's wife, Tonette. (We hope you will not follow her example.) 
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