Subject: RE: Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America
From: "Demastrie, Jesse" <[email-masked]>
To: Robby Mook <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Jester, Daniel" <[email-masked]>, Brian Fallon <[email-masked]>, David Binder <[email-masked]>, Huma Abedin <[email-masked]>, Jen Palmieri <[email-masked]>, Jesse Ferguson <[email-masked]>, Joel Benenson <[email-masked]>, "John Anzalone" <[email-masked]>, John Podesta <[email-masked]>, Kristina Schake <[email-masked]>, Mandy Grunwald <[email-masked]>, "Margolis, Jim" <[email-masked]>, Marlon Marshall <[email-masked]>, Nick Merrill <[email-masked]>, Oren Shur <[email-masked]>, Teddy
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:15:21 +0000

Here’s a bit from the article:

The Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America, a 501(c)(4) group led by veteran Republican operative Rick Reed, will go live with its campaign against Paul on Tuesday, while the senator is in Louisville, Kentucky, announcing his presidential candidacy.

This is not the first major campaign Reed has influenced from the outside. He was the architect of the 2004 “Swiftboat Veterans for Truth” campaign that attacked John Kerry’s national-security record and credentials. His new campaign against Paul will be bigger than even that effort, he said. “Foreign policy has the potential to be as big in this campaign as it was in 2004 or even greater,” Reed said. “To me, given the state of the world, that’s a good thing.”

Reed declined to disclose his group’s donors. As a registered nonprofit, the group doesn't have to reveal its funding sources. But there has already been reporting that several big-dollar Republican donors are planning to open up their checkbooks<http://www.nationaljournal.com/twenty-sixteen/rand-paul-sheldon-adelson-isn-t-planning-to-attack-me-20150304> to attack Paul on foreign policy, including as pro-Israel billionaire Sheldon Adelson.

From: Robby Mook [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 10:14 AM
To: Demastrie, Jesse
Cc: Jester, Daniel; Brian Fallon; David Binder; Huma Abedin; Jen Palmieri; Jesse Ferguson; Joel Benenson; John Anzalone; John Podesta; Kristina Schake; Mandy Grunwald; Margolis, Jim; Marlon Marshall; Nick Merrill; Oren Shur; Teddy Goff; Tony Carrk
Subject: Re: Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America

Do we know who's behind this?

On Apr 7, 2015, at 10:01 AM, Demastrie, Jesse <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
The Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America is starting to place in IA, NV, and SC attacking Rand Paul around his presidential bid launch. We are collecting totals and will send when we have a better picture of it.

Articles say that “The group will begin airing ads on broadcast TV, cable and the Web in several early primary states accusing Paul of being weak on Iran and tying him to the Barack Obama administration’s Iran policy, which polls show<http://www.people-press.org/2015/03/30/more-approve-than-disapprove-of-iran-talks-but-most-think-iranians-are-not-serious/> is deeply unpopular among Republican voters.”

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-04-06/gop-hawks-set-to-ruin-rand-paul-s-big-day

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