Subject: Politico: Schumer: Carbon tax has a chance if Clinton wins
From: Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
To: Robby Mook <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, Maya Harris <[email-masked]>, "Ann O'Leary" <[email-masked]>, Christina Reynolds <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Tony Carrk <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Amanda Renteria <[email-masked]>, Marlon Marshall <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:34:33 -0400

Ok. If we dont want to take it off table would just leave alone. We havent
been asked. Was just going to call them on our own before gop jumped on it

On Tuesday, June 23, 2015, Robby Mook <[email-masked]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[email-masked]');>> wrote:

> I don't recall any polling to guide us, but I'd be a bit nervous about
> rushing to say we'd never support such a tax.  Bernie I assume DOES support
> such a tax and it could be fodder for him if we say unequivocally now that
> we don't support one.
> To be clear: it's lethal in the general, so I don't want to support one.
> But don't want to give bernie contrast right now.  So if there's a way to
> re-state principles and say she'll announce something in the next few
> weeks, that would be great.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>> Policy, is there any chance we go near such a proposal or can we nip this
>> in the bud tonight?
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Ian Sams* <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2015
>> Subject: Politico: Schumer: Carbon tax has a chance if Clinton wins
>> To: Clips <[email-masked]>
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>> http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/schumer-carbon-tax-has-a-chance-if-clinton-wins-119352.html?hp=rc2_4
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>> Schumer: Carbon tax has a chance if Clinton wins
>>
>> By *ELANA SCHOR* <http://www.politico.com/reporters/ElanaSchor.html>
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>> 6/23/15 7:28 PM EDT
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>> Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) outlined a path Tuesday for Hillary Clinton
>> to enact a carbon tax if the Democrats prevail in the 2016 elections.
>>
>> Schumer, the Senate Democrats’ leader-in-waiting, said that a Clinton
>> presidency and the return of his party to the Senate majority in 2017 could
>> pave the way for lawmakers to enact a carbon tax to help fund the
>> government.
>>
>> Story Continued Below
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>> The mere suggestion of a new fee on the emissions blamed for climate
>> change, however, could become a political headache for Clinton and other
>> Democrats, and it’s routinely dismissed by Republicans. The Obama
>> administration disavowed the idea after the 2012 election.
>>
>> “If Hillary wins and we take back the Senate, I believe many of our
>> Republican friends will say we’ve been starving the government for
>> revenues,” Schumer told an environmental event on Capitol Hill, “but many
>> of them will not be for raising rates.”
>>
>> Noting that half a dozen European oil and gas CEOs came out in favor of a
>> price on carbon this month, and that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson has
>> expressed openness to the idea, “you might get a compromise” carbon tax in
>> that event, Schumer added.
>>
>> “I think in 2017 people of both parties might come to that as the best
>> way to fund the government,” he said.
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>> <https://www.politicopro.com/energy/?ml=ri>
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>> Schumer’s comments came at an event hosted by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
>> (D-R.I.), who recently unveiled a carbon tax proposal at the conservative
>> American Enterprise Institute that would offset the funds raised by cutting
>> corporate taxes and returning rebates to the public.
>>
>> The New York Democrat hinted at the potential controversy of his
>> carbon-tax prediction by first asking if his remarks the event, which was
>> streamed live online, would be “on the record” for the press.
>>
>> Schumer also vowed that Democrats would successfully defend President
>> Barack Obama’s landmark climate change rules for power plants from GOP
>> attacks, saying, “We will hold that — they’ll need 60 votes to change
>> things, and we’re not going to let that happen.”
>>
>> Three Democrats considered swing votes on any Republican bid to unravel
>> Obama’s climate rules, Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and
>> Joe Donnelly (Ind.), face reelection in 2018.
>>
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>> Read more:
>> http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/schumer-carbon-tax-has-a-chance-if-clinton-wins-119352.html#ixzz3dw5NBkgl
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