Subject: Re: NYTimes: Hillary Clinton and the Super Trough
From: Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
To: "Elias, Marc (Perkins Coie)" <[email-masked]>, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Maya Harris <[email-masked]>, Dennis Cheng <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 12:28:40 -0400

I'm all for picking some or all of these proposals to support in addition
to the constitutional amendment, which will not unfairly strike some as
pie-in-the-sky. Putting more meat on the bones will help make it clear
she's serious about this.  But my thought the other day in suggesting we
focus on this sooner rather than later was less about the policy and more
about the "complaints of hypocrisy" and the observation that, "She will
certainly have to explain this duality on the campaign trail."  Policy
alone won't make the cognitive dissonance go away, in fact it might
heighten it. But having her make the unilateral disarmament argument
directly and maybe even some straight talk that cuts to the core of
people's concerns about her relationship with donors in general, might
help. Not just with this but broader issues. Just my two cents.

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Elias, Marc (Perkins Coie) <
[email-masked]> wrote:

>  A couple of (very) small procedural nits.
>
>  The bill that missed by 1 vote was in 2009, not 2012 and it was Van
> Hollen in the House not Hoyer and Schumer in the Senate.  The bill passed
> the House and missed in the Senate by 1 vote — Scott Brown having said he
> would support and then not (there were 59 Democrats at the time).
>
>  In 2012 there was a slightly stripped down version offered by Whitehouse
> in the Senate.  By then, we had lost control of the House and it had no
> chance of passing.  It was not passed in either House.
>
>  There is also a Wyden Mirkowsi disclosure bill in 2012 that never went
> anywhere but was bipartisan.
>
>  --
> Marc E. Elias
> Perkins Coie LLP
> 700 13th St, NW
> Washington, DC 20005
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> [email-masked]
>
>
>
>   From: Maya Harris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 12:04 PM
> To: Robby Mook <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>, Marc Elias <
> [email-masked]>, Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>,
> John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <
> [email-masked]>, Dennis Cheng <[email-masked]>,
> Dan Schwerin <[email-masked]>
>
> Subject: Re: NYTimes: Hillary Clinton and the Super Trough
>
>   Just fyi, here's what Brennan highlighted on DISCLOSE:
>
>  The DISCLOSE Act (Hoyer/Schumer) nearly passed Congress in 2012,
> obtaining a majority vote in the House and falling one vote short of
> breaking a Republican led filibuster in the Senate. It has three major
> components to get rid of dark money:
>
>
>  o Require all groups that engage in more than $10,000 in political
> spending, including for-profit corporations, labor unions, and social
> welfare nonprofits, to disclose their donors.
>
>
>  o To prevent organizations from “laundering” their money by transferring
> it through multiple organizations and thereby hiding the original identity,
> require any transfers over $50,000 to another organization while knowing
> the money will be used for political spending to be disclosed.
>
>
>  o Expand the electioneering restriction window: 120 days before any
> presidential contest; starting on January 1 of an election year for any
> congressional contests.
>
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Robby Mook <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
>>  Disclose requires you to list your 5 biggest donors right?
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 9, 2015, at 11:48 AM, Jake Sullivan <[email-masked]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>   Guys - this is what I was raising with you all on the call on Thursday
>> when we discussed next steps on campaign finance reform.  As Marc says, it
>> is match for small dollar donations.   I continue to think this would be a
>> smart move - and I believe we can support the bill or at least a variant of
>> the proposal.  I'm adding Dan because we have already done work with the
>> Brennan Center on this topic.
>>
>> DISCLOSE is good too, but I would go further.
>>
>>  Maya, in working these up, touch base with Dan on the work already
>> done.
>>
>> On May 9, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Maya Harris <[email-masked]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>   I will touch base with our experts on EMPOWER. They also mentioned
>> DISCLOSE as a consensus D party reform. But will look into it further and
>> circle back.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Elias, Marc (Perkins Coie) <
>> [email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>>> I am not familiar with Udall¹s bill specifically, but it seems to be
>>> another version of the dominant reform theme ‹ create a super match for
>>> small donations ‹ i.e. 5 to 1 or 10 to 1.  If someone has the bill text
>>> (I
>>> could not find it) I can look at quickly.
>>>
>>> I would think that the easiest bill for her to support ‹ I am sure she
>>> endorsed in the past ‹ is the DISCLOSE Act.  It twice garnered near
>>> unanimous Democratic support in Congress but failed for lack of GOP
>>> support.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Marc E. Elias
>>> Perkins Coie LLP
>>> 700 13th St, NW
>>> Washington, DC 20005
>>> 202-434-1609 (ph)
>>> 202-654-9126 (fax)
>>> [email-masked]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Robby Mook <[email-masked]>
>>> Date: Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 11:16 AM
>>> To: Jennifer Palmieri <[email-masked]>
>>> Cc: Marc Elias <[email-masked]>, John Podesta
>>> <[email-masked]>, Maya Harris <[email-masked]>, Jake
>>> Sullivan <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake
>>> <[email-masked]>, Dennis Cheng <[email-masked]>
>>> Subject: Re: NYTimes: Hillary Clinton and the Super Trough
>>>
>>> Would be great to back something concrete.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On May 9, 2015, at 11:10 AM, Jennifer Palmieri
>>> ><[email-masked]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Elias - you familiar with this legislation?  Is it something she should
>>> >support?,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2015_0
>>>
>>> >5_09_opinion_hillary-2Dclinton-2Dand-2Dthe-2Dsuper-2Dtrough.html-3Fsmid-3D
>>>
>>> >nytcore-2Dipad-2Dshare-26smprod-3Dnytcore-2Dipad&d=AwIFaQ&c=XRWvQHnpdBDRh-
>>>
>>> >yzrHjqLpXuHNC_9nanQc6pPG_SpT0&r=mJZthOcamSml7FV7KXYLE6P2EQrjV525p9lKVucDNW
>>>
>>> >I&m=VFrdSxeVs8usEJTUZ2mihXQNnzpLhKRrL6t2JE2E8h0&s=vb0l2aiitKv0PbPEi3Wf82Vl
>>> >aKho9AcIDNhBshRcplQ&e=
>>> >
>>> > Can she stand for reform as she embraces ³super PACs²? All candidates
>>> >should address the risks these funding vehicles pose to the democratic
>>> >process.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>
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