Subject: Update on press around ad
From: Christina Reynolds <[email-masked]>
To: Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], Tony Carrk <[email-masked]>, Teddy Goff <[email-masked]>, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, John Anzalone <[email-masked]>, Oren Shur <[email-masked]>, Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Jim Margolis <[email-masked]>
Cc: Lily Adams <[email-masked]>, Matt Paul <[email-masked]>, Michael Halle <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 13:04:04 -0400

Good flag from Lily below. Thus far this and one line at the bottom of
Maggie’s story this AM are the only press it’s gotten. CTR is pushing
around the info on background, which will be a good primer for reporters
regardless, but at this point, I think we don’t need to do anything further.

Also, NBC has the 07 WaPo oped—they ran a blurb online and Mark Murray has
been tweeting about it:

1. *Mark Murray* ‏@mmurraypolitics  <https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics> 3h3
hours ago <https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/606456976780857344> No
doubt *O'Malley* racked up progressive achievements as MD GOV. But that '07
op-ed undercuts that he's always been a true-blue progressive

‏@mmurraypolitics  <https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics> 3h3 hours ago
<https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/606456270195847169> In 2007,
*O'Malley* wrote WaPo op-ed with Harold Ford (!!!) arguing that Dems need
to focus on center -- not the left http://www.
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601158.html …
<http://t.co/45UUKyBaLE>

*From:* Lily Adams [mailto:[email-masked]]
*Sent:* Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:56 PM
*To:* Christina Reynolds
*Subject:* Fwd: Des Moines Register: As Rick Perry struggles in Iowa, super
PAC comes to rescue with ad

See for last line - only mention we've seen. No inquiry.

A super PAC that backs another newly announced presidential candidate,
Democrat Martin O'Malley, has also made an ad buy in Iowa, ad trackers told
the Register.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: *Kate Waters* <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:53 AM
Subject: Des Moines Register: As Rick Perry struggles in Iowa, super PAC
comes to rescue with ad
To: Iowa Comms <[email-masked]>

*As Rick Perry struggles in Iowa, super PAC comes to rescue with ad
<http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/06/04/rick-perry-presidential-ad-iowa-super-pac/28474033/>*

*Des Moines Register | Jennifer Jacobs*

Freshly minted presidential candidate Rick Perry has little public support
in Iowa, but a super PAC is launching a 30-second spot to see if
advertising can buy him an early share of the GOP electorate and cement the
belief that he has a shot in Iowa.

The pro-Perry Opportunity and Freedom PAC has made a six-figure television
and digital buy in Iowa for an ad called "Lost," PAC aides told The Des
Moines Register on Thursday morning.

It was to begin running Thursday, the day Perry, a former Texas governor,
formally entered the 2016 presidential race.

Despite spending more time in Iowa this year than any of his rivals, Perry
is 11th place in a field of 16 Republican presidential contenders, a May
25-29 Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll shows. He's the first choice of
just 3 percent of Republican likely caucusgoers, compared to the 17 percent
support enjoyed by Iowa frontrunner Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin.

"How does a nation that's lost find its way back?" a male narrator says in
the pro-Perry advertisement. "Start in a place called Paint Creek, Texas.
In a farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, a boy named Rick Perry learned
lessons of strength, resilience and faith. As governor, he helped create
more than 2 million new jobs, and fought to secure the border while others
did nothing. We can find our strength again. If we look in the right place."

Perry released a presidential announcement video Thursday morning that
calls for "a president who has done the right thing." His official launch
event was set in Texas in front of a plane similar to those he flew while
serving as a captain in the U.S. Air Force.

Opportunity and Freedom PAC spokesman Austin Barbour said in a statement:
"Governor Perry is gaining momentum as he spends a great deal of time in
Iowa and other early voting states getting to know the people and sharing
his vision for the future of America. We intend to continue aggressively
advocating on his behalf in Iowa and across the country."

A super PAC that backs another newly announced presidential candidate,
Democrat Martin O'Malley, has also made an ad buy in Iowa, ad trackers told
the Register.

-- 

Kate Waters

Iowa Press Assistant, Hillary for America

Cell: 703-447-1087

-- 

Lily Adams

Iowa Communications Director

Hillary for America

c: 202-368-4013