Subject: Re: DRAFT - Surrogate attack and response talkers for today
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:35:59 -0400
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If Jen is good we can update and recirc

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On Apr 15, 2015, at 4:34 PM, 'Mandy Grunwald' via HRCRapid <
[email-masked]> wrote:

Let me know if I'm too late on this, but I think we could be more specific
on policy details.  At least we can point people to the topics where she
has said she wants to offer solutions. (These are some I remember. I'm sure
there are more)

 -- the burden of student debt
--the need to expand early childhood education opportunities
--the unfair tax loopholes that let hedge fund managers pay less than
truckers and nurses
--the high cost of prescription drugs -- that are sold cheaper in other
countries
--leveling the playing field for small businesses who can't take advantage
of the loopholes that big corporations use
--unregulated money in politics

*Mandy Grunwald*
*Grunwald Communications*
*202 973-9400*

-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
To: Jesse Lehrich <[email-masked]>
Cc: hrcrapid <[email-masked]>
Sent: Wed, Apr 15, 2015 3:04 pm
Subject: Re: DRAFT - Surrogate attack and response talkers for today

  Thanks - get rid of "lack of policy details" and replace with "policy
questions."
 Nice job.

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On Apr 15, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Jesse Lehrich < [email-masked]>
wrote:

   These would be going to a small group, only surrogates going on TV. We
will add a supplemental bullet or two on marriage equality, but just want
to make sure we know exactly what Jen said in her impromptu gaggle so we
don't contradict ourselves. Thanks!

* APRIL,15: SURROGATE TP'S ON ATTACKS*

 *Lack of policy details:*

 *Hillary has a lot of policy ideas, and has spent a great deal of time
over the past six months thinking about the problems facing our country and
how to best tackle them*.  Anyone who knows her or her record knows that
policy is core to who she is.

*Hillary believes we need bold proposals to address the problems facing the
middle class, focusing on tackling what she calls the “four fights”*:
- building our economy
- strengthening families and communities
- fixing our dysfunctional political system
- protecting our country from threats.

   - (Four Fights in Hillary’s own words from Monticello, Iowa event on
   4/14/15): “We need to build the economy of tomorrow, not yesterday. We
   need to strengthen families and communities, because that’s where it all
   starts. We need to fix our dysfunctional political system and get
   unaccountable money out of it once and for all, even if that takes a
   constitutional amendment. And we need to protect our country from the
   threats that we see, and the ones that are on the horizon.”

 But Hillary doesn't want to take policy off the shelf and say that
specific policies are the answer for the country without spending a lot of
time talking to the American people about their concerns.

*She wants to road test her ideas, and more importantly, hear from people
directly to learn what they are worried about.*  Often one will find that
an issue the press or Washington might be focused on is not what is on the
minds of everyday Americans.

  *Marriage Equality*

  *Hillary Clinton supports marriage equality and hopes the Supreme Court
will come down on the side of same-sex couples being guaranteed that
constitutional right.*

  *Issa Letter/NYT Story*

  *Topline response To Issa letter/NYT story:*

  *There is nothing new here. This was a letter sent in 2012 to all cabinet
agencies leaked by congressional aides to the press two years after the
fact at the start of Hillary Clinton's campaign.*  The letter was sent
shortly before she left the State Department and was responded to in due
course.

 *As we’ve said before, as Secretary, she followed the letter and the
spirit of the law.*  She has provided all of her work email to the State
Department and has asked the State Department to release them publicly as
soon as possible.

   - We've been over this, and over this, and over this again.  She had an
   email account.  She used that email account to correspond with over 100
   people inside the State Department, outside the State Department, likely
   even some Republicans. This was not a secret being kept, it was an email
   address.

   - And let's remember something.  This was a 2012 letter, isn't it
   interesting that it's coming out over 2 years later in 2015, the first day
   she begins campaigning for President?  What does that tell you about this?
   It tells you that this is more of the same partisan charade by the
   Republicans, the same Republicans who are turning to this because they
   didn't find any smoking gun on Benghazi.

  *If asked about the mention in the story about violating the rules in the
foreign affairs manual:*

  *Let's remember something, she wasn't the first Secretary of State to use
a private email account.*  But she was the first and only former Secretary
to turn hers over to State, and certainly the first to ask for them all to
be released to the public.

  *She conducted herself according the letter and the spirit of the rule.*
And funny enough, as recently as 6 weeks ago the Department was asking
employees to use their private accounts because their servers were down.

  *If pressed on whether Hillary Clinton gets to play by her own set of
rules:*

  *Well I'll tell you this, she has asked the State Department to turn over
all 55,000 pages of her emails, and it's still not enough. *So I'd say that
the Republicans try and hold her to a different standard because they are
afraid of what she has to offer as a candidate.

  And the Republican candidates, not to mention Congress, are not exactly
fully transparent in this regard.

  She's out there talking to voters, listening to their ideas and talking
through some of hers.
 So you will see them respond to these partisan attacks when needed, but
they also aren't going to let this kind of charade distract from what this
campaign is about: people.

 *If asked whether this is going to derail her campaign:*

  *Look, this campaign is not going to be about Hillary Clinton, and it's
certainly not going to be about petty partisan attacks* on Hillary Clinton.
This is going to be a campaign about people, and which candidate will fight
to get everyday Americans ahead and stay ahead.

 --
 Jesse Lehrich
Rapid Response Associate
 Hillary For America
 781-307-2254
 @JesseLehrich
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