Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Gillespie plots 2017 bid — RGA goes dark in Kentucky
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:03:53 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 09/29/2015 10:02AM EDTThe following newsletter is an abridged version of Campaign Pro's Morning Score. For an earlier morning read on exponentially more races - and for a more comprehensive aggregation of the day's most important campaign news - sign up for Campaign Pro today. (http://www.politicopro.com/proinfo)TODAY ON CAMPAIGN PRO --GILLESPIE IN, OBENSHAIN OUT -- Campaign Pro's Theodoric Meyer reports: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f32e14a7bbfd03e4c0796e9788c0e4d1e356470ffc58683e5 GOING DARK IN KENTUCKY -- Campaign Pro's Steven Shepard and Kyle Cheney report: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f5c58ac72d7244663b858af17a3c5b2396f2dbc53d25c4103 FLORIDA REDISTRICTING TRIAL ENDS -- From Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36fdf8cdc3ef9316cd7ee44e6490c143bb16f3b88a6000b52dd WOLF BACKS McGINTY -- From Campaign Pro's Elena Schneider: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f7d56c432964d09a6af52622f06c478511752fbc26c627def Days until the 2015 election: 35. Days until the 2016 election: 406.Thanks for joining us. Email tips to the whole Campaign Pro team at [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked] and [email-masked]. FIRST IN SCORE - NRSC HITS CORTEZ MASTO -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee will go up with a four-figure digital ad buy against former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto, attacking the Democrat for her support of the Iran nuclear deal. The video will emphasize
 Masto's comments about the deal, saying that "this is an agreement where there's no going back," a decision she was somewhat slow to announce. - If you don't have plans Thursday morning: Join POLITICO at 9 a.m. in Washington for a conversation on America's energy agenda, with Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.); Marty Durbin, the president of America's Natural Gas Alliance and a slew of other speakers. More details: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f66551ed190b1805c1699bd788ff955b677b33252d02a911c PREVIEW - CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM -- Rep. Tammy Duckworth, who's running in the Democratic primary to challenge Republican Sen. Mark Kirk, will roll out her criminal justice policy platform today, which will emphasize "rehabilitation,
 scaling back for-profit prisons and prioritizing juvenile justice reform." She's also supporting a requirements for police-worn body cameras and independent investigations for all police-involved deaths. COURT UPDATE - "Judge tosses 2 bribery charges against Menendez," by POLITICO's Josh Gerstein: "Sen. Robert Menendez scored a modest victory in his battle against federal corruption charges Monday, as a federal judge tossed out two bribery counts against the New Jersey Democrat. However, U.S. District Judge William Walls rejected a flurry of defense challenges to the other 12 felony counts against Menendez, leaving enough of the indictment in place that the senator could draw a substantial
 prison term if he is convicted on some or all of the remaining charges." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36fb7e1cb85eb577896f6e56e62b6cd0764399d5e4c18200731 LEADERSHIP RACE - "Elbows fly in jostle for top GOP leadership posts," by POLITICO's Jake Sherman: " ... Speaker John Boehner resigned less than a week ago, but frenzied campaigns have broken out already to replace him and fill the party's other top leadership slots. Four positions could open up, and the House Republican Conference is filled with courtship, intrigue and one-upmanship. But the leadership aspirants are about to walk into a buzz saw. The GOP Conference will meet twice Tuesday, including at a rare evening session to try to chart a path forward for its
 fractured party. The 5 p.m. meeting has been billed as a discussion about the "strategy going forward," and the outsize personalities in the room will have the opportunity to voice their opinions about how the party's House strategy should change. ... Whether they'll take stock - or just plow ahead - remains to be seen." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f642c6fdb85a2df5dc367d3c35791bd4ae1e0522abae8a7f2 In case you need more, please follow The Gavel, where it's all House leadership, non-stop: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f8c27c8aa2b26178875601f35c9e4ca9bebfd5fa3cf13eae5 - Democrats wasted no time to use Boehner's departure as a way to pull in campaign cash, the Washington Post reported. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f44fa1b10a2972ce7b97e25b56e61e8f9e7f147a8d4ddebab PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ
 - THE LONE RANGER -- "Cruz sternly rebuked by GOP," by POLITICO's Burgess Everett: "Ted Cruz can't even get a protest vote in the Senate anymore. On Monday night, Cruz's colleagues ignored his attempt to disrupt Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's efforts to fund the government without attacking Planned Parenthood. In an unusual rebuke, even fellow Republicans denied him a "sufficient second" that would have allowed him a roll call vote. Then, his Republican colleagues loudly bellowed "no" when Cruz sought a voice vote, a second repudiation that showed how little support Cruz has: Just one other GOP senator - Utah's Mike Lee - joined with Cruz as he was overruled by McConnell and his
 deputies." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f4c60bcecca34000e929bf8cb31ff88f72d66b42530fbad17 - "POLITICO Magazine: Meet the four kinds of GOP voters," by Hugh Hewitt: "...Looking at out the presidential race right now, I see clearly four different types of GOP primary voters and caucus-goers. Not all of them, of course, are conservatives or even Republicans, since independents and even Democrats can vote in some of the early GOP primaries. Figuring out who these voters are and what they're looking for is critical to each of the remaining candidates - because they're not all equally up for grabs." In short: 1. GOP true believers, already picked a candidate for the long haul ... 2. Buckley voters, who support the most
 conservative, plausible candidate ... 3. Center-right governing conservatives, or Republicans in blue states ... 4. Uniques, or issue voters. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36feaa16b76a59eb973792e286aeb64d6485a90412eeec3d9f3 TODAY IN HILLARYLAND - "Clinton races to pad campaign wallet with coast-to-coast events," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti: " ... So the former secretary of State is back on the road on an end-of-quarter campaign cash dash that her Brooklyn-based team hopes will pad her wallet after one of the toughest stretches of her political career. ... If all goes well, as Clinton-aligned Democrats expect, she will be able to dazzle away much of Sanders' buzz - and some of the chatter about Vice President Joe
 Biden's own White House aspirations - by announcing a fundraising haul that healthily complements the $47.5 million of her first three months as a candidate, said campaign fundraisers and donors as well as Democrats close to the political team. Even some of the campaign's emails to small donors have started hinting at this goal." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36fe1e02d4b7fb5bf079b034a79c2ca1ffcd9046302abea8579 - "Clinton endorsement divides teachers union," by POLITICO's Annie Karni: "Top brass of the 3 million-strong National Education Association, the country's largest union, are recommending an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, according to an email obtained by POLITICO -- a move that has many state leaders and
 rank-and-file members planning to protest the early endorsement. The email, sent from the union's campaign office, states that the NEA PAC, the union's political arm, is planning to hold an upcoming vote 'recommending Hillary Clinton for the presidential primary.' 'After months of interactions with the three candidates who chose to participate in our process [Clinton, Martin O'Malley and Bernie Sanders], certain things became clear,' the email states. 'Clinton is the best positioned candidate to win both the Democratic primary and general election.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36fcb58bbcbbb8f60c6718c877f807a451d3a99b80a5327f0c4 "Bay State Biden fans seek Patrick alliance," by POLITICO's Kyle Cheney: "Massachusetts
 supporters of Joe Biden are seeking to forge an alliance between the vice president and former Bay State Gov. Deval Patrick, a close friend of President Barack Obama and prominent African-American leader whose support could open pathways to the state's potent Democratic donor network. Their outreach underscores a dilemma for Patrick, who is now a managing director at Bain Capital: he has political ties to both the vice president and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, whose allies have been in touch with the ex-governor too. ... His continued fence-sitting in the primary has fueled rumors - taken seriously by some Massachusetts Democrats, but dismissed outside the state - that he
 could be Biden's running mate if the vice president decides to run for president. More significantly, prominent members of Patrick's political network have shown little interest in lining up behind Clinton." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f0c559b8cf7d902c5a5a2fbd2869e5ddcd2b2d281c7ad08a7 STEALS - "Austin Barbour, who ran Rick Perry's super PAC until the candidate ended his campaign earlier this month, is going to work for Jeb Bush's campaign," POLITICO's Eli Stokols reported. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f755f3353392b731f3a0b58d4417a90855ebe8144cb619191 CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "We're ready to dance. We're willing to work with him." -- Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), on retiring House Speaker John Boehner http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=80f842587746a36f16e55d445120f02b486d2c19a067dee1d0dc78d0e6d4c737
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