Subject: Re: UPDATED DRAFT: Remarks at Nevada Democratic Party Dinner
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Emmy Ruiz <[email-masked]>, Tim Hogan <[email-masked]>, Speech Drafts <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 14:34:52 -0600
List-Id: <speechdrafts.hillaryclinton.com>

Wanted to flag that she's interested in leaning into Sanders contrast here.
There's already a few elbows in this draft, including on immigration.  That
could be enough, but just talked with Jen about the possibility of adding
another on guns, so floating the bolded addition below for discussion:

"I will stand my ground to stop drug companies from price gauging you on
medicine you need.

"Against polluters, who want to keep poisoning our air and water, and
threatening our planet’s future.

"Against the gun lobby that blocks every common sense safety reform,
even keeping
guns out of the hands of the mentally ill or suspected terrorists on the
no-fly list.  If you’re too dangerous to fly, you’re too dangerous to buy a
gun, period.  *And yes, Senator Sanders, it's a mistake to give gun makers
and dealers immunity -- they should be help accountable just like any other
corporation.*

"I also will continue to stand my ground against those who traffic in
prejudice and paranoia, who spread hate against immigrants, Muslims, LGBT
Americans, or anyone else they can scapegoat and demonize...."

On Jan 4, 2016, at 11:50 AM, Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
wrote:

Thanks for the helpful feedback so far.  Here's an updated draft.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> On Wednesday, HRC is speaking at the Democratic Party dinner in Nevada,
> along with the other candidates. She has about 15 minutes. Emmy asked that
> we emphasize the importance of state party building efforts and electing
> Dems up and down the ticket, immigration reform, and contrast with local
> Republicans (as we've done to good effect in Iowa).  This is also an
> opportunity to lay out the closing argument more robustly than we've doing
> in town hall toppers so far, raising the stakes in the election by painting
> a picture of how a Republican President would rip away our progress and
> explaining why we need to elect someone who has what it takes to get the
> job done on the economy, security, and problems that keep families up at
> night.  Plus, starting to draw sharper contrasts with Sanders, as HRC has
> indicated.  All in 15 minutes!
> Attached is a draft for discussion. (And please keep in mind that for
> anything we add, we also need to cut.)
> Thanks
> Dan
>

<2016-01-04 NV dinner - 1230pm ET.docx>