Subject: Re: Women in the World
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: "Margolis, Jim" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 12:24:37 -0400

Team,
HRC seems good with this in principle. She gave me a few edits and asked to
talk it over more this afternoon. Unfortunately, she did strike the gay
wedding / Indiana & Arkansas line. So I'll revisit that with her.
Latest is attached.
Dan

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:13 AM, Margolis, Jim <[email-masked]>
wrote:

>  Agree w/joel on the opening for each bullet.
> I think for this to have more edge, we need the ‘offer themselves as
> leaders’ riff on each hit.
>
>   From: Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 6:44 AM
> To: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <
> [email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>,
> John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>,
> GMMB GMMB <[email-masked]>, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, Huma
> Abedin <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: Women in the World
>
>   Also wonder if to make the riff work, we don't have to start each one
> with.
>
>  There are those who offer themselves as leaders who hold back women by .
> . .
>
>  I think that gives it rhythm and drives the message repeatedly each time
> so reporters won't miss it.
>
>  Also on equal pay.... They're not just turning their backs-  on that one
> I would use the language that works about denying women equal pay when
> they're doing the same work as men.
>
>  Reason on that one is it is about discrimination and that language makes
> it clearer.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 23, 2015, at 12:28 AM, Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>   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...
>
>  <2015-04-22 Women in the World - 11pm.docx>
>
>
>
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