Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Alan Grayson's campaign shakeup — Colorado's biggest policy flashpoint gets hotter after Planned Parenthood shooting
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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 09:03:02 -0600

By Theodoric Meyer | 12/02/2015 10:01 AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard and Elena Schneider

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OUT WITH THE OLD - "Alan Grayson's Senate campaign shakeup," by POLITICO's Kevin Robillard and Marc Caputo: Rep. Alan Grayson's campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, and senior adviser are leaving their jobs in the Democratic congressman's troubled Florida Senate campaign. Campaign manager Doug Dodson's last day was Monday and deputy campaign manager David Keith - a longtime friend of Grayson's - is leaving day-to-day operations but will stay on as an informal adviser, multiple sources tell POLITICO. Additionally, senior adviser and campaign spokesman Kevin Franck plans to leave before year's end. ... The departures, described by sources as 'amicable,' speak to deep dysfunction within
 Grayson's campaign and the challenge of working for a mercurial, hot-headed candidate as liable to blow up at staff as he is at Republicans or reporters." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=df7546c7abbce0ad41255c1bad94c3c436e2c1930072ab0b6f6a804932df24e8

FLASHPOINT GETS HEATED - Colorado groups, pols cast blame over Planned Parenthood shooting: Abortion has long been a major, main flashpoint in Colorado elections, but last week's shooting in Colorado Springs has amped up the rhetoric. Abortion-rights supporters rallied at the state capitol Tuesday and blamed "the rhetoric of anti-abortion Republicans as the match that lit the fuse," The Denver Post reports. "Many top Republicans and pro-abortion groups have condemned the shootings in Colorado Springs." The progressive groups highlighted a state representative's since-deleted Facebook post saying Planned Parenthood had started a cycle of violence. 
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- Colorado Republican Party chair Steve House condemned the state rep in a statement, KUSA reports. "The progressive groups also listed" GOP Rep. Mike Coffman by name, which Coffman called the exploitation of a "horrific incident." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=df7546c7abbce0ad4de64d994a689475ffff0607e70af1aa343feb827bd9cf05

TOP OF THE TICKET - GOP strategists fear Trump's effect on House and Senate races: Top Republicans are increasingly concerned that Donald Trump will become the party's presidential nominee - and that it will lead the GOP to lose otherwise winnable House and Senate races, The New York Times' Jonathan Martin reports. One Republican strategist in Ohio "replied to an email asking about Mr. Trump's effect in the state by sending a link to a Wikipedia page on the 1964 congressional elections, when Barry Goldwater's presence atop the Republican ticket led the party to lose 36 House seats." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=df7546c7abbce0adcd174e5c2d4fda4b784f302dc4c05d41abc218eae586c5f3

Days until the 2016 election: 342.

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POLLING UPDATE - "Report: 47 percent of adults live in cellphone only households," by POLITICO's Steven Shepard: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=df7546c7abbce0ad7d3fdae810c8c996fe26983f560da7c501eefb946732aa33

OUTSIDE SPENDING - "Zuckerberg immigration group launches 2016 reform blitz," by POLITICO's Anna Palmer: "The Mark Zuckerberg-backed group that spent tens of millions on a failed bid for immigration reform is reigniting its efforts for the 2016 election. Fwd.us is launching a multi-pronged campaign that could spend as much as $10 million over the next year on digital and TV ads, research and polling, according to plans first shared with POLITICO. The initiative includes an expansion of its ground operation into 12 states, focusing on presidential battlegrounds and targeted House seats held by Republicans." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=df7546c7abbce0adf2eba06d3be0af3fabede67ed038b9e1b9ce7446326de335

SWIFT CONDEMNATION - Republican candidate in IA-02 criticized for immigration remarks: GOP state Sen. Mark Chelgren, who's waging a longshot campaign against Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack, came in for bipartisan criticism on Tuesday after he told a local newspaper that he supported executing illegal immigrants who had been deported after committing a felony and tried to reenter the country. Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Andy McGuire told The Associated Press that Chelgren's remarks were "vile, hateful and downright deplorable." Charlie Szold, a spokesman for the Iowa Republican Party, said they "do not represent the values and the beliefs of Iowa Republicans." 
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PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - "Bush readies his last stand in New Hampshire," by POLITICO's Eli Stokols: "New Hampshire is beginning to look like Jeb Bush's final stand. Stuck in the middle of the GOP pack he was expected to dominate, Bush is accelerating the time frame for his campaign's next ad buy in the state. His campaign also announced Tuesday that it is opening four regional field offices in New Hampshire and upping its on-the-ground staff from 12 people to 20. That concentration of resources comes after his Right to Rise super PAC has already spent $12 million on TV ads and blanketed New Hampshire with four direct mail pieces." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=df7546c7abbce0ad81350a72275f062b672f151c9fa7df4a792a162402cbb8ae

- "Pro-Kasich super PAC whacks Trump again," by POLITICO's Daniel Strauss: "The super PAC supporting Ohio Gov. John Kasich's presidential bid is taking aim again at Donald Trump. New Day for America, which recently aired a series of ads against the billionaire, is following up with another attack timed to coincide with a campaign rally Trump is hosting Wednesday in Manassas, Va. The super PAC is mailing flyers to New Hampshire as part of an effort to criticize Trump's rhetoric on illegal immigration. The flyer, obtained by POLITICO, asks "Who will build his hotels?" in all caps, and quotes a 1990s-era New York Times report about Trump being sued for using illegal immigrants "to clear the
 site for the Trump Tower in New York claiming he used the illegal workers to avoid paying union pensions." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=df7546c7abbce0ad590b23b7e13857771755c8bae1d32402d0d906270ebf09a0

- A downcast Right to Rise donor on Jeb Bush's mediocre poll numbers: "We know that Gov. Bush is the adult in the room and the one with a proven record, but unfortunately the country doesn't seem to care," Mike Fernandez, a Miami billionaire who's donated more than $3 million to the super PAC backing Jeb Bush, told The Wall Street Journal's Beth Reinhard. "The reality is that after a few months, if you see a strategy is not responding, you need to adjust it." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=df7546c7abbce0ada9461557aa421a78adab8196b333d6e1752091ec92e433e1

- "A new face for Clinton fundraising: Chelsea Clinton," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti: In a rite of passage, Chelsea Clinton will co-host her first fundraiser for her mother. The event, "Family Holiday Celebration with Hillary and Chelsea," will be held in New York City on Dec. 17. "Tickets for the event - which is expected to be a large gathering as the Democratic front-runner sprints toward her goal of $100 million for the primary election before the end of the year - start at $250. Actress Drew Barrymore and her husband, Will Kopelman, will also serve as co-hosts." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=c24ee4c1b08c0c7fc2dc3ea99cc3bd06120a46aa93fd04620bbe71b09baa44d0

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I'm not up next year, so I don't have that dilemma." - GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who isn't worried about Donald Trump's effect on Senate races. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=df7546c7abbce0adcd174e5c2d4fda4b784f302dc4c05d41abc218eae586c5f3

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