Subject: Re: Women in the World
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>
Cc: Jim Margolis <[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: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 07:40:36 -0400

She added it

On Apr 27, 2015, at 7:13 AM, Joel Benenson <[email-masked]> wrote:

 The religious beliefs words that Jen is going after is not in the prepared
text below.
Did she add that or is he making it up?

Sent from my iPa

On Apr 23, 2015, at 12:24 PM, Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
wrote:

  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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