Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: RGA drops three more ads in Kentucky — Green room gripes in Boulder — SKDK's Singh to McGinty
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:01:52 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 10/28/2015 10:00 AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard, Theodoric Meyer and Steven Shepard

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FIRST IN SCORE: RGA DEBUTS THREE NEW ADS FOR STRETCH RUN IN KENTUCKY -- The Republican Governors Association is debuting three new ads for the final week of the Kentucky governor's race. The first, a 30-second spot titled "New Direction," spends the first 10 seconds attacking Democrat Jack Conway as a "career politician" who "will give us four more years of Obama's failed policies." The final 20 seconds of the ad boost Conway as a tax-cutter who will "modernize schools" and "fight Washington when their policies hurt Kentucky families." The other two ads are both 15-second spots. One of the ads, "Fight," starts a coal miner arguing Conway will adopt Obama's policies, while Bevin will battle
 the administration. The other, "Four More Years," features footage of Conway saying he would've been "proud" to vote for Obamacare. "We can't afford four more years of Obama and Conway," the narrator concludes. 

-- The RGA said new spending on the ads brings their total to $2.5 million spent in the final two weeks of the race, including television in eight of the state's ten media markets and statewide direct mail and digital.

Watch "New Direction" here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1913d578c9aa79040b96101228f4f25c5354c8c2a59e3e52af28f7e50efc9106

Watch "Fight" here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1913d578c9aa7904775f6f9364f93aed1e9fe330c331ff8897769017f8eae752

Watch "Four More Years" here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1913d578c9aa7904c2e2597d821e16d0af519056a24c4e89621a49bbd0d3f078

THE P.I. CHRONICLES, CONT. -- The arrested investigator working for Sen. David Vitter's gubernatorial campaign told police he was assigned to do surveillance on a man "with a white beard," indicating he was likely supposed to investigate John Cummings, a prominent lawyer and supporter of Democrat John Bel Edwards. Cummings told the Baton Rouge Advocate he planned to ask the FBI to investigate the incident. "The stupid son of a bitch was supposed to find Santa Claus in the cafe; that's the guy with the white beard," Cummings told the paper. "But you can tell David Vitter that he doesn't get anything for Christmas. He's been naughty." Cummings also said he attends the same parish as Vitter.
 "There's something very, very strange about the man." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1913d578c9aa7904127368eef2928e82f614c704484eca7e34410c5d3a7b9573

Days until the 2015 election: 6. Days until the 2016 election: 377.

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FIGHT NIGHT -- "Campaigns gripe over green rooms at third GOP debate," by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt in Denver: "During a tense 30-minute meeting at the Coors Event Center, which was described by three sources present, several lower-polling campaigns lashed out at the RNC. They accused the committee of allotting them less-than-hospitable greenroom spaces while unfairly giving lavish ones to higher-polling candidates, such as Donald Trump and Ben Carson. ... [Donald] Trump was granted a spacious room, complete with plush chairs and a flat-screen TV. Marco Rubio got a theatre-type room, packed with leather seats for him and his team of aides. Carly Fiorina's room had a Jacuzzi. Then there was
 Chris Christie, whose small space was dominated by a toilet. So was Rand Paul's." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1913d578c9aa790428c7cd3f3de807b723ae2bd4211b9089e9f7d4a4aac762d0

FIRST IN SCORE -- SKDK'S SINGH TO McGINTY -- Sabrina Singh, a former deputy communications director at the DGA now at SKDKnickerbocker, is joining Pennsylvania Democrat Katie McGinty's Senate campaign as communications director. Signh's also worked at the DCCC and for Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois. 

POLL DATA -- MISSISSIPPI LANDSLIDE LIKELY -- Republican Gov. Phil Bryant easily leads the gubernatorial field with 66 percent of surveyed participants supporting him, while Robert Gray, the Democratic nominee and former truck driver, trails with 28 percent. About 5 percent of the voters are still undecided. Mason-Dixon Polling & Research conducted the poll in late October, reaching 625 registered voters by landline and cell phone. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1913d578c9aa79042e23c18903f66e86e77e6a16e44e37127eeb10b8a1ac7f77

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ -- "Money churns in Carson, Inc.," by POLITICO's Katie Glueck and Kyle Cheney: "Ben Carson isn't paying senior adviser Mike Murray a salary. But the Republican presidential contender is pouring millions into companies connected to Murray, one of the dozens of operatives benefiting from a surge in grassroots donations to Carson. ...The payments to Murray-linked companies are part of nearly $11 million in third quarter spending by Carson for services that help him raise even more money. Carson, whose $20 million third quarter haul made him the top Republican fundraiser, is spending 55 cents of every dollar he raises on payments to fundraising-related companies and
 consultants. His campaign finance reports reveal a complicated money churn that relies heavily on telemarketing and direct mail pitches to mom-and-pop donors. But the reports reveal few details about companies making big bucks from the campaign or exactly what services they provide." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1913d578c9aa79043548023fa96b04a2192451e907c80be1081d177c5f132832 

NOT SO FAST -- "Ex-McCain aides: Bush's campaign is not like ours," by POLITICO's Daniel Strauss: "Jeb Bush, short on money and long on staff, is reaching for a flattering analogy these days: John McCain's go-for-broke comeback win in 2008. ...There's just one problem: McCain's own people aren't buying the comparison. "McCain was the only guy in the world that could have come back in the world from where we were, which was dead broke and running around on commercial flights and everything," said Charlie Black, a top adviser for McCain's 2008 campaign. "I think it's bulls--t," said another former top McCain aide who is now working for one of Bush's rivals." 
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1913d578c9aa79043010c2c27b1d64f59561e2b05bac98129b59410f09ef10e9 

IF IT'S SUNDAY -- Jeb Bush will go on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday for an interview that will include questions about his debate performance from tonight. 

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Let the record show, we don't just complain about public polls that are bad for us. These 2 Iowa polls are great for us and crazy wrong," tweeted Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for Hillary for America, referring to two polls that had Clinton way ahead in Iowa. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=1913d578c9aa7904b8841b4ce6508e0a26b35978a61ad1788037b8f1b42903d7 

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