Subject: Re: HRC remarks in Cleveland
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: Christina Reynolds <[email-masked]>
Cc: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>, LaDavia Drane <[email-masked]>, Tracey Lewis <[email-masked]>, Tyrone Gayle <[email-masked]>, Corey Ciorciari <[email-masked]>, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>, Brynne Craig <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:23:29 -0700
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

If not too late, I agree with Mandy would be great to fix the foster care
paragraph. Here are suggested tweaks (and here is op-ed
<http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2015/01/an_unnoticed_part_of_hillary_c.html>
by Ann Lewis from earlier this year laying out HRC's foster care work with
all the back up stats):

·     This issue has been personal for me going all the way back to my
early days at the Children’s Defense Fund.  I’ve known a lot of foster kids
over the years and some of their struggles just break your heart.  Every
child needs support and permanence and predictability.  But too often,
children in foster care can’t find it.  The system fails them.  *We* fail
them.  And then they turn 18, and in some places the social worker shows
up, puts everything they own in a black garbage bag, and says, “you’re on
your own.”

·     I’ve always felt so strongly that we must speak up for and champion
children who have so little voice and so little power. Some of my proudest
work as First Lady of the United States came in the work I did with Ohio's
own Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's, together with one of the Republican
leaders of the House at the time, Representative Tom Delay. We worked our
hearts out to raise awareness about the needs of foster children and to
fight for the passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which lead to
a major increase in foster children being adopted into permanent, safe and
loving homes. And then we fought some more to provide support for children
aging out of foster care so that young people are not left alone to
navigate the adult world with no support, mentorship, family or friends.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Christina Reynolds <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> Agreed. I would cut that graf.
>
> I know research has already flagged this, but given that Trump came out
> just today in an interview on the hedge fund/carried interest stuff, I
> would caveat that tax language a bit. As written, I think it's just asking
> for a fact-check with it fresh in people's memory.
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:47 PM, Dan Schwerin <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> I've been having same thought on emails.
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Aug 26, 2015, at 10:22 PM, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Don't know if you want to mention it in the foster care section, but
>> HRC worked with Tom Delay and Dave Thomas of Wendy's (which is Ohio based I
>> think but I don't know how they are as an employer) to pass ground breaking
>> adoption/foster care legislation when she was in the White House.  It led
>> to a huge increase in foster care adoptions. I don't remember the exact
>> statistic.
>> >
>> > Second point.
>> >
>> > Are we sure we want emails in this?  It felt very discordant as I read
>> it through.  I'm interested to know what others think.
>> >
>> > Thx
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Mandy Grunwald
>> > Grunwald Communications
>> > 202 973-9400
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Aug 26, 2015, at 7:54 PM, Dan Schwerin <
>> [email-masked]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Team, here are remarks for tomorrow's organizing event in Cleveland.
>> We hit guns, voting rights, BLM, etc. See what you think.
>> >> Thanks
>> >> Dan
>> >> <2015-08-26 Cleveland - 730pm.docx>
>>
>
>

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Ann O'Leary
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Hillary for America
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