Subject: Women in the World
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>, Jim <[email-masked]>, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 00:28:08 -0400

Per the conversation several of us had this evening, I've added a contrast
riff in the Women in the World speech. This is instead of doing a
Lynch/trafficking hit at the top.  See if you think this works or is too
hot. Full speech is attached and riff is below.
Dan

When women are held back, our country is held back.  But when women get
ahead, America gets ahead.

Our country is held back when women of any age – whether on college
campuses or military bases or even in their own homes – face sexual
assault.  But we move forward when women have the safety and security they
deserve.

America moves forward when all women are guaranteed the right to make their
own healthcare choices… not when those choices are taken away by an
employer like Hobby Lobby.

We move forward when African American women who’ve worked hard their entire
careers can retire with dignity, not when they’re denied that chance
because their wages were lower and they had less access to retirement
plans.

We move forward when gay and transgender women are embraced as our
colleagues and friends, not fired from good jobs because of who they love
or who they are.

We move forward when women who came to this country in search of a better
life can earn a path to citizenship, instead of being forced to work
outside the formal economy for pennies on the dollar.

Our mothers and sisters and daughters are on the frontlines of all these
battles.  But these aren’t women’s fights.  They’re America’s fights.  We
have to take them on together.  And win them together.

Yet there are those who offer themselves as leaders of our country who take
a different view.

They look the other way when bosses pay women less and then block laws to
fix it.

They vote to defund Planned Parenthood and to let health insurance
companies once again charge women more just because of their gender.

They’d rather deport mothers – even mothers of American citizens – than
risk the ire of talk radio.

Maybe some of them will go to a gay wedding, but they’re all too quick to
embrace discriminatory laws in places like Indiana and Arkansas.

They even play politics with victims of human trafficking.

This isn’t the way to move America forward.  It isn’t leadership.  And it’s
not going to create a single job, raise anyone’s wages, or strengthen our
families...