Subject: RE: 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]>
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 13:42:51 -0400

*New York Daily News: Martin O'Malley going after 'bullies of Wall Street'
in campaign, but he has ties to big banks too
<http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/martin-o-malley-wall-st-ties-big-banks-article-1.2246630>*

By Cameron Joseph

June 4, 2015 1:14 p.m. EST

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley has been bashing Hillary Clinton for
being too cozy with Wall Street, but he's got some ties of his own to
financial big-wigs.

O'Malley has been looking to show he's a populist warrior in the Democratic
presidential primary, hoping he can get to Clinton's left and capitalize on
the anti-Wall Street mood coursing through the progressive base while
ripping Clinton for her well-heeled support.

"When you have somebody that's the CEO of one of the biggest
repeat-offending investment banks in the country telling his employees that
he'd be fine with either Bush or Clinton, that should tell all of us
something," O’Malley said on ABC Sunday, pointing out that Goldman Sachs
CEO Lloyd Blankfein has said he'd be happy with either Clinton or former
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in the White House.

O'Malley also warned the "bullies of Wall Street" during his Saturday
campaign announcement that "the presidency is not a crown to be passed back
and forth by you between two royal families."

But while he was the finance chairman of the Democratic Governors
Association in 2008, Goldman Sachs gave $100,000 to the organization.

O'Malley admitted on Wednesday that he "probably" had asked for big checks
from financial giants in the past before refusing to rule out soliciting
more from the financial industry for his presidential bid.

"I probably have. I was the chair of the Democratic Governors Association.
I'm quite sure I've called everybody that they've put up sheets in front of
me," he said when asked about past donations during an event in Washington
with the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, referring to the fundraising
call sheets candidates dial through looking for donations.

"I'm not prone to call up the head of Goldman Sachs or those individuals,
nor am I inclined to tell those people in the financial industry that they
shouldn't be involved in my campaign, in fact I think they should," he
continued. "There's a lot of good people who work in our financial
industry."

That's a different tune than a Wednesday fundraising email from O'Malley's
campaign that asked for donations to "help us fight back against Wall
Street."

According to CNBC, O'Malley wined and dined with Wall Street leaders
including Robert Wolf, president and chief operating officer of UBS
Investment Bank, and Marvin Rosen, a corporate and securities lawyer, at
the swanky Lever House in November 2013.

Some of O'Malley's current campaign supporters have ties to big banks as
well.

George Appleby, who introduced him last weekend in Iowa, is a registered
Des Moines lobbyist who counts Wells Fargo and OneMain Financial, formerly
the Citigroup Management Corporation, among his clients.

O'Malley began his career as a member of the business-friendly Democratic
Leadership Council, and his current rhetoric runs counter to a 2007 op-ed
he coauthored with the group's then-leader and former Rep. Harold Ford
(D-Tenn.), who currently works for Morgan Stanley and at the time was at
Merrill Lynch.

The two wrote then that Democrats must seek a "centrist agenda" and praised
Bill Clinton's presidential campaign for its "sensible ideas."

And when O'Malley was governor, he appointed former Legg Mason CEO Richard
C. Mike Lewin to the Maryland Transportation Authority and former Deutsche
Bank Alex Brown managing director Mark Kaufman to head Maryland's committee
on financial regulation.

Kaufman helped O'Malley keep banks from foreclosing on families during the
financial crisis and was named the 2014 consumer advocate of the year by
the Maryland Consumer Rights Association.

O'Malley is now calling to break up the big banks and reimpose the
Glass-Steagall Act, which would impose tighter restrictions on the banking
industry.

Professor Adam Sheingate of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said
O'Malley "never took a populist anti-Wall Street stance" when he was mayor
or governor, though he pointed out that O'Malley successfully pushed
through some new financial regulations while he was in office.

"He can say he took on the financial services industry, and he did some
things that I don't think went very far in terms of curtailing payday loans
and require banks to renegotiate mortgages instead of foreclose on people,"
he said.

O'Malley's campaign downplayed his ties to banks.

"Governor O'Malley's strong call to finally rein in Wall Street has clearly
struck a chord with the powers that be. They can try to leak as many
meaningless tidbits as they want, but Governor O'Malley has shown he will
stand up to his own party to call for real structural and accountability
reforms of Wall Street," O'Malley spokeswoman Haley Morris told the Daily
News.

"Rather than engaging in this silly back and forth, every candidate should
have the courage to say where they stand on this issue."

*From:* Christina Reynolds [mailto:[email-masked]]
*Sent:* Thursday, June 4, 2015 1:04 PM
*To:* 'Robby Mook'; Jennifer Palmieri; Kristina Schake;
[email-masked]; Tony Carrk; Teddy Goff; Mandy Grunwald (
[email-masked]); John Anzalone ([email-masked]); Oren Shur; Joel
Benenson ([email-masked]); John Podesta ([email-masked]); Jim
Margolis
*Cc:* Lily Adams; Matt Paul ([email-masked]); Michael Halle
*Subject:* Update on press around ad

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]
<[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