Subject: Re: DRAFT: OH Organizing Event
From: "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>
To: Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Lauren Peterson <[email-masked]>, Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>, Maya Harris <[email-masked]>, Corey Ciorciari <[email-masked]>, Rebecca Chalif <[email-masked]>, Jen Klein <[email-masked]>, Rachel Vogelstein <[email-masked]>, Amanda Renteria <[email-masked]>, Brynne Craig <[email-masked]>, Mini Timmaraju <[email-masked]>, LaDavia Drane <[email-masked]>, Karen Finney <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 18:23:35 -0700
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

Agree!

Ann O’Leary
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On Sep 9, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
wrote:

Seems indisputable to me.

On Sep 9, 2015, at 9:11 PM, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
wrote:

Okay.  If policy is okay, I am.

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 9, 2015, at 9:10 PM, Lauren Peterson <[email-masked]>
wrote:

She hasn't said these words:

"Demanding an end to the epidemic of violence against transgender women of
> color in this country is a women’s issue."
>
>
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Jennifer Palmieri <
[email-masked]> wrote:

> Which one hasn't she said?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 9, 2015, at 8:19 PM, Lauren Peterson <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Adding a few more people - I also wanted to flag this line, which she has
> not said before:
>
> ·     Standing up and saying loudly and clearly that yes, black lives
> matter – that’s a women’s issue, too.  And demanding an end to the epidemic
> of violence against transgender women of color in this country is a women’s
> issue.
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Lauren Peterson <
> [email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone -
>>
>> Sending around TPs for the OH organizing event. Planning to send to the
>> book at 9 with any edits that come in before then, but will also look for
>> edits overnight.
>>
>> Please note that this includes a section on paid leave and a jab at
>> Kasich. I've copied that section below.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> LP
>>
>> ###
>>
>> ·     The movement of women into the American workforce over the past 40
>> years drove more than $3.5 trillion in economic growth.  But today, that
>> progress has stalled.
>>
>>
>>
>> ·     Studies show that nearly a third of America’s decline relative to
>> other countries is because they’re expanding family-friendly policies like
>> paid leave.  And we’re not.
>>
>>
>>
>> ·     Take your own Governor Kasich.  When he was in Congress, he voted
>> against the Family and Medical Leave Act – not once, but twice.
>>
>>
>>
>> ·     I was proud to champion the Family and Medical Leave Act.  And I
>> was proud to stand by my husband’s side when he made it the first law he
>> signed as president.  Since then, it’s been used more than 200 million
>> times.  That’s 200 million times someone has been able to keep their job
>> while spending time with a family member who needed them.  It’s also 200
>> million more times than it would have been used if then-Congressman Kasich
>> had his way.
>>
>>
>>
>> ·     FMLA is a great start.  But it’s not enough to guarantee that you
>> won’t lose your job for taking time to be with a sick family member – not
>> when too many people still can’t afford to lose a paycheck.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ·     Just this week the US Department of Labor released a report
>> showing that if the US had the same percentage of women in the workforce as
>> Germany or Canada, we would see an estimated 5 million more women per year
>> in the workforce.
>>
>>
>>
>> ·     That’s why I’ve made paid leave central to my campaign.  And it’s
>> why I’ll keep fighting for it as president.
>>
>>
>>
>> ·     Every worker deserves up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care
>> for a new baby or a seriously ill family member.  Every worker should be
>> able to earn 7 paid sick days.
>>
>>
>>
>> ·     I will work to be the president who brings America into this
>> century – because we cannot afford to be the only country that provides no
>> paid leave for any reason.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ·     Here in Ohio, 42 percent of workers have no access to paid sick
>> days.  That’s 2.2 million Ohioans who can’t take the day off to recover
>> from the flu or care for a sick child without losing a paycheck or even
>> their job.  And Governor Kasich has done nothing about it.
>>
>
> <2015-09-10 WI Organizing Event 8pm.docx>
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>