Subject: POLITICO Playbook, presented by the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI): MEMORIAL DAY EDITION – TOM COTTON for V.P.? – KRISTOL’s deep tease -- SANDERS’ secret weapon -- WHO KISSED Shane? – B’DAYS: Alan Berger, Kim Kingsley, Frank Thorp
From: "Mike Allen" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 08:07:28 -0600

05/30/2016 10:04 AM EDT

By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; [email-masked]) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; [email-masked])

A HUMBLE THANK YOU to the men and women - most of them quite young -- who died to keep us free. Politico's Diana D'Abruzzo has posted a sobering photo gallery, "Arlington Cemetery: A year in pictures -- As the nation prepares to honor fallen service members on Memorial Day 2016, POLITICO takes a look back at a year inside our nation's cemetery." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c0965e088982820f1ef072ddb6b138d307858e03cf015ea4c4b9768f76f08e5 

VEEPSTAKES - "On the (running) trail with Tom Cotton: The freshman Republican [senator from Arkansas] won't rule out serving in a Trump White House, or even as his running mate," by Burgess Everett: "At 39 he's the youngest senator ... If Donald Trump loses in November, the veteran of two wars and Harvard Law grad is sure to be the focus of 2020 presidential chatter. A favorite of the Republican foreign policy establishment, Cotton notably was not among the many critics of Trump within the GOP's ruling class ... 

"Cotton wouldn't rule out serving in a Trump White House, or even as his vice president. 'I don't have any reason to think that I would' be asked, Cotton says, before allowing that he would entertain 'any request for assistance' from a Republican nominee. ... [Re 2020:] 'You guys are like Lloyd from "Dumb and Dumber": "So you're telling me there's a chance?"'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c0965e088982820d66c5765a40d6bb6b3368c14c1817cbe3b8489de6cfe3f9a

TOP TEASE -- @BillKristol: "Just a heads up over this holiday weekend: There will be an independent candidate--an impressive one, with a strong team and a real chance."

DAILY DONALD - "Trump invokes MLK at D.C. biker rally: At a Memorial Day weekend rally, Trump revs up veterans," by Ben Schreckinger: "Trump spoke at a stage set up at the end of the reflecting pool closest to the Lincoln Memorial to a relatively sedate crowd of hundreds of bikers and assorted tourists, who did not entirely fill the space between the pool and the memorial. ... 'I thought this would be like Dr. Martin Luther King, where the people will be lined up from here all the way to the Washington Monument.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c0965e08898282069f0a08fe23a3478d2d22a3e78e74ffd93f156281e8576ae

THE MAP - N.Y. Times p. A1, cols. 2-6 (in a box), "Tricky Math and Uphill Terrain: Four Increasingly Diverse Regions Will Test Trump's Politico Map," by Jonathan Martin, Alex Burns, Trip Gabriel and Fernanda Santos: "Republicans enter the general election at a hefty disadvantage: Since the 1992 campaign, 18 states have voted consistently for Democrats in presidential elections, giving their party a firm foundation of 242 electoral votes to build upon. And in the four regions likely to decide the presidency - Florida, the upper Southeast, the Rust Belt and the interior West - Mr. Trump faces daunting obstacles." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c0965e08898282035368bfe18365f1fd144db352c5f04701201eb52256bf0ea 

--"Amish for Trump: Can Ben Carson and Newt Gingrich allies convince this anti-divorce, tech-shunning group to back the boasting billionaire?" by Katie Glueck: "The Amish don't read Donald Trump's tweets and can't watch his television appearances, and voting is practically against their religion. But that's not stopping a group of Trump allies with ties to Ben Carson and Newt Gingrich from mounting a campaign to turn them out ... The group is planning to mount an old-fashioned, billboards-and-newspaper-ads effort this summer, designed to encourage Amish people in Pennsylvania and Ohio to turn out for Trump in November." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c0965e0889828206ccf86a322549a64ef892e8b0f5a6a92a8fa5ca17302ebac 

ZEITGEIST -- L.A. Times p. A1, above fold, "Corporate America not sold on Trump ... alarmed by the billionaire's comments," by Don Lee: "So far none of Trump's policies or bombastic statements seem to have shaped financial markets, suggesting that investors and corporate leaders may not be taking his candidacy very seriously. That will start to change, however. 'If I were a large firm doing trade in Mexico or China, I would be nervous right now,' said Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University economics professor who tracks the effects of uncertainty on the economy." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c0965e088982820c38bfd7652554e6dff8b6df866e1b0adc986b5c4c59f46a3

--"Though largely unknown, Trump finds fans in China," by AP's Christopher Bodeen in Beijing: "[A]lthough Chinese officials and state media have denounced Trump's threats of economic retaliation, many Chinese observers see a silver lining in his focus on economic issues to the near-total exclusion of human rights and political freedoms. That appears to make him an attractive alternative to ... Hillary Clinton, who is regarded as far more critical of China's communist system." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9c0965e0889828206f615fd4a64b7ea5cc88e622d2dc65bdf375892b3228c69e

FLASHBACK -- Cao Li on NYT's Sinosphere blog, April 5, "Trump, Despite Bashing Beijing, Is Not Without Fans in China" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7cf87d5f449e4403398a7aedafecf9c0b52beba81125e9b6e1a6ea574a8b190c 

CLICKER - "Pete Souza: photographing the real Barack Obama," by The Guardian's Jonathan Jones: "Over two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama's presidency." 17 pics on one page http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7cf87d5f449e44034623b20be4127fab30305f89ac93a9b9adbfb529cab5e3d7 

TALL TALE - N.Y. Times p. A9, "White House Letter: Secret Service Dreams of a (14-Foot, Spear-Tipped) Picket Fence," by Mike Shear: "Visitors to Washington could soon see a 14-foot barrier ringing the president's home. Pressure to move quickly is intense; fence jumping at the White House has become a regular occurrence. ... [O]fficials at the Secret Service have presented their thinking: a fence ... with spear-tip finials atop vertical black iron pickets that are twice as thick ... and nearly twice as tall as the current ones." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7cf87d5f449e44033ca60d56c94e6d4b20126c5b74aa691197e1d05c96c532a3 

HOT CLICK -- @Neil_Paine: "As seen on the Upper East Side: a lady driving her dog around in a radio-controlled [toy] BMW." Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7cf87d5f449e4403f181e97013593362ecab1887e6e2e63d7a359350695b045b 

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BERN BRIGADE - WashPost Style section lead, "Sanders love, Young Turks style: The online news network of the 'political revolution' has played a big role in boosting the Democratic candidate," by Dave Weigel in L.A.: "Sanders finally learned how to pronounce Cenk Uygur's name. In Irvine, it had been 'Chenk.' Once, it was 'Senk.' This time, at Anaheim's air-conditioned convention center, Cenk Uygur introduced Sanders, the senator thanked 'Jenk YOO-ger,' and the crowd cheered. ... 

"The search for analysis of how the candidate can still win has built a massive Reddit group, turned freelance columnist H.A. Goodman into a viral hitmaker (typical column: 'Bernie Sanders Will Become Democratic Nominee Even If Clinton Leads in Delegates'), and boosted the Young Turks." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7cf87d5f449e4403fad05944312ae521ffcd6e137a63bfada3db94577badaebd

OBAMA ALUMNI - "The Creative Genius [Arun Chaudhary] Behind Bernie's Revolution," by Ozy's Nick Fouriezos: "The erstwhile NYU film professor looks the part here, with his rumpled button-down and Medusa-like hair. 'Audio is the most important thing, because we evolved from prey. We have terrible eyesight,' Arun Chaudhary says. 'All our emotional insight comes from our ears.' ... [T]he [Sanders] campaign's digital creative director has found an avid audience, and a chance to combine his two passions. ... 

"From Oakland and Los Angeles to Brooklyn, Chaudhary has been training filmmakers to take the Bernie revolution into their own (smartphone-wielding) hands. ... Despite his exhaustion ... the 40-year-old still has the enthusiasm you'd expect from an Indian-Jewish kid whose earliest memories include watching the Reagan-Carter debates with his family." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7cf87d5f449e4403ff1a6eb223ad6a92907c0a5e9d758cad186dc459b2d42d6e ... Time Q&A with Arun http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7cf87d5f449e4403045cc26d332da00a1d3c795488967bfb30bbdc9439261faa 

AXE BREAKS NEWS - "Holder now says Edward Snowden performed a 'public service,'" by Matt Jaffe of UChicago's Institute of Politics, for CNN.com: "'We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate that we engaged in and by the changes that we made,' Holder told David Axelrod on [his podcast] 'The Axe Files' ... 'Now I would say that doing what he did -- and the way he did it -- was inappropriate and illegal.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=7cf87d5f449e4403109896ce4af236f52c64e45dfb36278e061b9ce9fd8d7528 ... The episode http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b3e3b821973984cf76b4f4a1e101c593e0129919b62922ec035042fb806b3b75

MARY MATALIN in National Review, "Austin Petersen for President": "[A]fter decades as a Republican, I'm now supporting Austin Petersen for the Libertarian party nomination, and for president of the United States. ... Frustration, fear, and impatience with the GOP's evolution away from the provably productive principles that attracted so many Baby Boomers is quantifiable across the conservative spectrum." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b3e3b821973984cfb71ec44e3b58d969a445868c76021eeb3c692a26364bdeb5 

DISPATCH FROM ORLANDO ... "Can Libertarian nominees Gary Johnson and Bill Weld siphon votes from Trump? On paper, they make up the most formidable Libertarian ticket ever. But they still need to make the leap to seriousness," by Shane Goldmacher: "The pair form a political team of two former Republican governors that Johnson declared to be the most formidable third-party ticket in the modern era ... 

"If all goes according to plan for Johnson in the coming months, he said that he would be in a position to plant a kiss on Trump's cheek during a debate this fall, as he has to other rivals in the past. ... Johnson ... kissed this reporter on the cheek to end an interview after he was asked about his debate-kissing habit." With cameos by Oliver Stone, Matt Kibbe, Ken Spain, Ed Crane http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b3e3b821973984cfeda8d4f8d06f65cc2974139c0556617e9a674b59bc2e7766 

MEDIAWATCH -- "European unity is meaningless without a media to match," by The Guardian's Peter Preston: "More and more accredited correspondents - nearly a thousand of them now - cluster in Brussels these days. Question the FT's fidelity and they'll provide reporters' names from all over the EU. Politico, opening a European wing to match its Washington DC operation, is already the favoured option for the union's movers and shakers." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b3e3b821973984cf0cb8a2fd98754bd61098bbcb81434e6515dc8a5ce1b8bd94 

VIDEOS DU JOUR - "House GOP Conference ... Snapshot video ... Rep. Steve Pearce (R-NM) ... embarked on a solo flight around the world to honor war heroes." 3-min. video http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b3e3b821973984cfb58b41e3e5cea0234e02980bb760328b5fd844c317897939 

--"Veterans of Atomic Test Blasts: No Warning, and Late Amends" - Retro Report on NYTimes.com: "story of the veterans who witnessed secret atomic testing and how their decades-long struggle for recognition ... Many were exposed to radiation and the after effects, but their experiences were largely kept secret until 1995, when President Clinton officially apologized for their treatment and lifted the secrecy surrounding the program." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b3e3b821973984cf55fe0291b91f08aff59904bd1d097be80b53f6de2000a399 

 HAPPENING TODAY: "American Veterans Center (AVC) is hosting the National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, ... the biggest Memorial Day parade in the country with hundreds of thousands in attendance honoring our nation's veterans from WWII onward. It will feature celebrities like Gary Sinise and have musical performances by Phil Vassar [and] John Michael Montgomery." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b3e3b821973984cfc8f8a14eebd37aac96387daf52b9b0ebe07050efe9d54317 ... Release http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b3e3b821973984cf1934f863ca0d573a5d040996a5f5a05220aee67bb226a88f ... Op-ed by AVC President Jim Roberts, "Why this Memorial Day is different" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b3e3b821973984cfae2b3021f22dca336671af79ff8e68f32ffda2833ad4b3df

--"Service and Sacrifice" - Senate GOP video: "Sen. McCain shares acts of heroism he witnessed." 90-sec. video http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a3422b1a81246ef7fd01bd94fa4ff1f88ab818bc74a7fc4f1990a490f0279f99 

CLICKERS - "Rolling Thunder annual ride through Washington" - "The event began in 1988 as a way of calling attention to the plight of Vietnam War veterans." 16 pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a3422b1a81246ef7515b3c582316775a2bf9efac05a74e3d1cc970abbd1d5f46 

--"Behind the scenes of the Libertarian Party convention," by M. Scott Mahaskey in Orlando -- 25 pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a3422b1a81246ef79d921d1828a95c546725778716634f4ada58e1f1d720e29f 

PIC DU JOUR - PETE SEAT's view of the Indy 500 with about 50 miles to go: "Dad's birthday was [Saturday] so celebrating both. At race with wife and her family (they've had race tickets since the beginning I believe). ... Couldn't pass up the 100th running falling on my birthday! They passed out stickers for people to wear indicating how many they've attended. So many 50, 45, 40 etc year attendees. Amazing." Rookie 24-year-old driver Alexander Rossi of California won the race. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a3422b1a81246ef7aa1682ec43007a05675060d903ced44c82e04c2e8b714e52 

WEEKEND WEDDINGS -- "Lucia Graves, Alex Seitz-Wald" - Times: "The bride, 31, is a columnist who writes about politics and women's issues for the American editions of The Guardian, the British newspaper, in Washington. She graduated from Oberlin College. ... The groom, 29, is a political reporter in the Washington bureau of MSNBC, covering the presidential race. He graduated from Brown ... The couple met in 2011 at a political event in Washington." With pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a3422b1a81246ef76f1957273bf8904f7842d5fbf54a7409d1c8be95c297ea41 ... Wedding pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a3422b1a81246ef7c867851127d5c431cce671feab60f648eaa153d560265a03 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a3422b1a81246ef74658a1bcd885255d56eb8248c62745aefd3e2995cfcbe10e ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a3422b1a81246ef74ff7ac1c7e379462a507cb9f44ba6187808b5043ffe9214d 

--Rob Simms, executive director at the NRCC, was married this weekend to Cindy Boyd, who works for the House Homeland Security Committee on the House side. ... They were married in Old Town where they live. The reception was at Hotel Monaco in Old Town and they were surrounded by tons of friends and family. Cindy's family came all the way from California where she's from. The wedding hashtag was #CindyGetsRobbed. Pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=a3422b1a81246ef7889ce08ef5d57f2d283ae3920a6b0964b615caadfca90208 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c477d19610075b9a1c10089447eccc6962bdaf476306c40697 ... Pics on Insta http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c406a77b00501abdc1a5458b782ae0dd9a9ec0455c229d56c5 

--SPOTTED: Rob's best man and CLF's Mike Shields and the RNC's Katie Walsh, NRCC Chairman Greg Walden and his wife Mylene Walden, NRCC's Todd and Jessica Johnson (Cindy's maid of honor), NRCC comms. director Katie Martin and Black Rock VP Matt Wall, NRCC political team: Jon Reedy, David Watts, George Nassar and Joe Pileggi, NRCC political director John Rogers and his wife Sarah Rogers, Mia Love's COS Muffy Day, IRI's Ann-Robin Anthony, PR guru Amy Weiss and PAC fundraiser Ashlee Reid Morehouse. 

--"Shayndi Raice, Dov Weiss" - N.Y. Times: "The couple graduated from Yeshiva University ... They also received master's degrees in modern Jewish history, and he a rabbinical ordination. Ms. Raice, 34 ... works in Chicago as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering the Federal Reserve and the United States economy. ... Weiss, 43, is an assistant professor of Jewish thought at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ... 

"In 1999, Ms. Raice said she noticed Mr. Weiss, then a rabbinical student, playing guitar during the Jewish holiday Sukkot, with a rabbi who taught at her high school, at one of the school's events. She became infatuated with him from afar, but romance would wait until 2015, when a mutual friend set them up on a date." With pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c492abaa71ccf984d3e7761cd20526757826f4dac3cef13d25 ... Wedding party pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c436a116d88fcfad2668e919dbde69b4cfc0de3f3325a402d5 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c4de68b031637436c39f2785cfef11b677a0599faa5f5238f6 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c439ee623609cba60b13a5f728f37101385655f2290665a866 

--SPOTTED: Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, WSJers Andrew Dowell, Jenny Strasburg, Mike Amon, Lisa Fleisher, Max Colchester and Stu Woo, New Yorker contributor Vauhini Vara and former WSJ'er Yukari Kane. 

--Kaylie Hanson, national comms. director for NARAL, and Jeff Long, of Dataminr, who first met as kids in Greenwich and re-met on the Blumenthal for Senate campaign in 2010, were married at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greenwich, CT. on Saturday. Family and friends, including a dozen Blumenthal alums, danced the night away at the Belle Haven Yacht Club. Insta http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c41038fe7073c1f2527381c88d0901b50ef61f862ab8850546 

--SPOTTED: Ben and Jean Marter, Brian Farnkoff, James Mikolowsky, Kate Hansen, Marcy Stech, Meghan Goodman, Jon Donenberg, Erica Andersen, Dan Pollock, Danielle Geanacopoulos, and Eamonn Hart. 

--"One T.S.A. Line Worth the Wait," by Jamie Diamond in NYT's "Vows" column:

Josh "Mankiewicz [has been] a correspondent since 1995 for the NBC News magazine program 'Dateline' ... Ms. Dang [is] the owner and chief executive of the home health care business CareWorks Health Service in Laguna Hills, Calif. ... Mr. Mankiewicz's grandfather, the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, shared an Academy Award for writing 'Citizen Kane.' His father, Frank Mankiewicz, was press secretary for Senator Robert F. Kennedy, presidential campaign manager for George McGovern and president of" NPR. With two pix http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c472e832ea1628dc76d507461e0055da1950242744c633ef71 

--Jamie McInerney, senior director at FTI Consulting and an ExxonMobil and Ellen Tauscher alum, wed PBS video editor Daniela Kelley on Sunday in tropical Parati in Brazil. 100 guests witnessed the romantic, beachfront wedding which was followed by a late night dance party with glitter, samba dancers and more. The bride walked down the aisle to Neil Young, sung/played on the guitar by friend Peter Jansen. Jamie popped the question while they were paddle boarding in the middle of the Potomac; the ring was firmly attached to a floating key chain. Pics http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c49e22849d2dd16a4aa5f11a67996ef83200453ec33c57a5ab ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e83ee3a30ef393c4f9916c7557b9bed2ccd1be5a7b7c949105ff66b2d275df15 ... Pics on Insta with the hashtag
 #daniandjamie http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=31fa848c2ac301c540d13e2c14f672d559226b79efce3b8bfae2e05aa7127bc2 

 SPOTTED: Jake Cusack, Molly Weaver, Pete Eskew, Cori Sue Morris, Cara Philblin, Peter Dixon, Peter Jansen, Kaveh Abtahi, Jessica Golden.

OUT AND ABOUT - Over sushi and Moby Dicks House of Kebab, Tom Adams, Edward Crane, Nick Gillespie, Winsor Mann and Richard Rahn hosted a buffet supper party last night at Juleanna Glovr's house to toast the new book "Who Needs the Fed?: What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit and Why We Should Abolish America's Central Bank" by John Tamny, a Reason Foundation scholar, editor of RealClearMarkets, and political economy editor at Forbes. $17.22 on Amazon http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=31fa848c2ac301c57e2a879184434c0415a5632d690716c2e57e011ceb1cf1b1 ... Forbes review http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=31fa848c2ac301c59ed430a2f78ff27998bf57506405157ded1bb3408ffb5f32 

--SPOTTED: Margaret Carlson, Jay Newton-Small, Ed Crane, Dave Mastio, Elena Postnikova, Nihal Krishan, Kristen Elizabeth and Becca Glover, Daryl Muller, Stephanie Green. 

WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Amanda Chiarappa Candy of Ogilvy and Mather and a Bush 43 WH press advance alum, and Showcall's Ashley Blayne Candy, also a Bush 43 alum, post on Facebook: "Feeling extremely blessed... Grant Walker Candy joined our family on May 24 (weighing in at 8lbs, 9oz) and we could not be more in love with him. Big brother is clearly over the moon as well!" Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=31fa848c2ac301c5a3dad41c3e69b66b69b929801a5249db7bbaed289af6794f 

REID EPSTEIN celebrated 37 with a party yesterday at Biergarten Haus on H Street, noshing on Bavarian Pretzel Rolls and Chicken Schnitzel Sticks. SPOTTED: Sarah Isgur Flores, Ryan Williams, Janet Hook, Patrick O'Connor, Lisa Lerer, Sara Murray, Garrett Haake, Matt Viser, Annie Linskey (who had just come from sailing), Julie Bykowicz.

BIRTHDAYS: Kim Kingsley, the pride of Scranton (hat tip: Danielle) ... Michelle Cottle, contributing editor at The Atlantic and a TNR alum ... former DCCC Chairman Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) is 58 ... Jenna Lee of Fox News ... HFA's Miryam Lipper, a DNC alum and Indiana Hoosier celebrating in Indianapolis (h/t Ian Sams) ... Frank Thorp, producer and off-air reporter covering 2016 for NBC, who also has served as chairman of the RTCA exec. committee ... Holly Page (h/t Jon Haber) ... CAA's Alan Berger ... Ashe Schow of the Washington Examiner and N.Y. Observer ... Shawnda Westly, senior strategist for the California Democratic Party (h/t Jenn Crider, a fellow Edison High School graduate) ...
 WSJ's Gautham Nagesh, also founder and editor of Stiff Jab, the premier fight site on Tumblr ... 

... Josh Gatlin, a Bush 43 WH alum now EVP for global development at Mockingbird Entertainment in Abu Dhabi, is 4-0 (h/t Crowley) ... Joe Williams ... Reema Dodin, floor director for Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democratic Whip ... Nicole Longo, currently at PhRMA, a Fratelli Group and GW alum (h/t Samantha Greene) ... Lisa Stark, an ABC News and Al Jazeera America alum ... Jorna Taylor, a.k.a. Advance Barbie -- former advance veteran from Kerry-Edwards in '04 and Edwards in '08 ... 

... Lauren Nevin of Hamilton Place Strategies (h/t Sabrina Siddiqui) ... PJ Media's Nicholas Ballasy, a Daily Caller and CNS News alum ... Sheila Ali-Oston ... Doug Grane, co-founder and partner at PE and angel investing firm St. Andrews Partners ... Greg Moore, NH state director for Americans for Prosperity ... Thomas Cluderay, assistant general counsel for the Environmental Working Group ... Joe Cowie ... Scott Froyen ... Stephanie Bosh ... Chris Gowen (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Gary Lee ... Sheila Ali-Oston ... actor Clint Walker is 89 ... Wynonna Judd is 52 ... Cee Lo Green is 41 ... actor Jared Gilmore is 16 (h/ts AP)

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