Subject: HRC @ Toner Prize
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 03:26:02 +0000

All, here are draft remarks for the Toner Prize event on Monday evening.
We had talked about a few possible goals for this speech: 1) clear the air a bit with the press, possibly with self-deprecating humor; 2) explain the important role that serious, fact-based journalism plays in our democracy, as opposed to gotcha-style politics of personal destruction; 3) and play a little offense on health care given that Monday is the 5-year anniversary of the ACA.
Of these sections, the first one is where I could really use your input.  Do the jokes in here work?  Do you have suggestions for punching any of them up?  Robin's husband Peter likes the idea of HRC being funny up there, and she says she is open to it as well, but we'll have to see if she really goes for it.
Thanks
Dan