Stay Classy, DNC!

Submitted by MsGrin on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 10:30am

Wikileaks Email: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/4697

Where they let their inner Frat Boy fly in order to mock the GOP

Note to DNC: LET THEM SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES - if you try to out-noise them, you may actually succeed.

BEST SUGGESTED IDEA ON THIS PAGE? HAND OUT BARF BAGS - All y'all are quite sickening.

From:WeiS@dnc.org = Shu-Yen Wei, DNC Regional Press Secretary
To: PalermoR@dnc.org, = Rachel Palermo, DNC Press Assistant (who began this email chain)
RegionalPress@dnc.org
Date: 2016-05-05 19:46
Subject: RE: Counter convention sketch

Here's the original email in the chain - the 'Off-Site Activities' seem intended to be humorous & media-grabbing:

State Amplification
Here are the top 50 media markets (in order of size) within battleground states.
We will develop an in-state operation for each of these.

1. Philadelphia 2. Washington D.C. 3. Boston 4. Atlanta 5. Tampa-St. Pete (Sarasota) 6. Phoenix 7. Detroit 8. Minneapolis-St. Paul 9. Miami-Ft. Lauderdale 10. Denver 11. Cleveland-Akron (Canton) 12. Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne 13. St. Louis 14. Charlotte 15. Pittsburgh 16. Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville) 17. Indianapolis 18. Columbus, OH 19. Kansas City 20. Milwaukee 21. Cincinnati 22. Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson 23. West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce 24. Las Vegas 25. Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek 26. Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News 27. Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York 28. Greensboro-High Point-Winston Salem 29. Jacksonville 30. Albuquerque-Santa Fe 31. Wilkes Barre-Scranton-Hazleton 32. Richmond-Petersburg 33. Dayton 34. Charleston-Huntington 35. Green Bay-Appleton 36. Roanoke-Lynchburg 37. Tucson (Sierra Vista) 38. Flint-Saginaw-Bay City 39. Des Moines-Ames 40. Toledo 41. Portland-Auburn 42. Madison 43. Colorado Springs-Pueblo 44. Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque 45. El Paso (Las Cruces) 46. Greenville-North Bern-Washington 47. Davenport-Rock Island-Moline 48. Reno 49. Tallahassee-Thomasville 50. Lansing

Notes:

SEIU has office space in downtown Cleveland close to convention that can be the base of operations and host the wrapped mobile RV.

Live-staged activities on-site:
* Jerry Springer “Live” fake show between Trump/Cruz/Kasich delegates - Jerry said he wanted to be involved
* Fake debate between Trump and Cruz
* Cleveland / Ohio delegation presser
* House Tri-Caucus chairs press conference (CBC, CHC, CAPAC) - plus women’s caucus, LGBT caucus

Off-site activities:
* Find a structurally-deficient bridge, have surrogates discuss how Republicans have fallen down on the job when it comes to infrastructure funding o Would need top-line surrogates for this - Anthony Foxx / Tom Perez
* Infiltrate friendly union hotels and properties around the convention that Republicans will be patronizing to distribute “care” packages
* Bracket Rob Portman’s “mini-convention”: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-04-01/a-trump-buffer-por... o Get other Senators asked if they will boycott convention if Trump or Cruz is set to be the nominee
* Pick one day to have press conferences in every media market in Ohio. o Message: While the Rs might be having fun bribing each other in Cleveland, Democrats are focused on the needs of Ohioans across the state.
* Fast food worker strike around the city or just at franchises around convention.
* Voter registration drive Gimmicks to hand out:
* Bribe packages for delegates - “Cruz Cruises,” Trump steaks, Vodka, Water, etc., monopoly money, tickets to Trump’s failed USFL football team
* “That’s why you leave a little tip” envelopes - for Kasich’s comments about hotel workers - work with Hotel Trades on this
* Bottles of dirty water from Sebring, OH (had a lead crisis under Kasich’s watch a la Flint)
* Care packages for folks who will be sick after Trump / Cruz nomination - with single-serve Advil, Alka-Seltzer, Pepto Bismol, Vitamin C
* Reporter swag bag?
* Clothespins so delegates can hold their nose voting for Trump/Cruz
* Milk cartons with GOP faces - local Wisconsin farm Paid Media:
* Banner ads in the airport
* Billboards on the highway from the airport to Quicken Loans Arena
* Ads in restaurants and bars around town
* Have places doing “drink specials” Other ideas:
* See if any Cavaliers, Browns, or Indians players would be interested in bracketing
* WH / Administration ask - can they send any topline surrogates / cabinet secretaries?
* Send letters to major companies who are boycotting RNC that they can invest in DNC and not be embarrassed (can work in companies leaving GOP states over social policies like Indiana Religious Freedom Act and HB2 in North Carolina)
* Volunteers / interns in Trump costumes performing Trump things
* Concert / Rock the Vote

Estimated Budget Item
Description Base Cost Days / Multiples Subtotal Meeting Space For pressers and war room $450.00 7 $3,150.00 Bus Wrapped Bus for Bus Tour and Mobile Visibility $2,500.00 15 $37,500.00 Bus Wrapping $10,000.00 1 $10,000.00 Online Ads $0.00 Cleveland Daily Online Presence $15,000.00 4 $60,000.00 Ads in Other STates 5 Other Markets in Battlegrounds, 4 days $20,000.00 20 $400,000.00 Travel Travel for Staff $0.00 Hotels For 12 Staffers From Multiple Departments 6 Nts $200.00 72 $14,400.00 Airfare For 12 Staffers $500.00 12 $6,000.00 Transportation To from hotels / airport / $150.00 12 $1,800.00 Billboards / Benches / Airport Ads $0.00 Airport Billboards In Cleveland $20,000.00 4 $80,000.00 Battleground Billboards 5 Battlegrounds $5,000.00 4 $20,000.00 Signs At all events $200.00 10 $2,000.00 Gimmicks Dog whistles / printing / etc $15.00 100 $1,500.00 TOTAL $636,350.00 ADD TECH COSTS --- WIFI, MIFIS, POWER CORDS, PODIUM, BACKDROP TVS

Wei piles on:

More Ohio ideas:
- Hold a presser on the climate change/the environment somewhere near the Cuyahoga River, calling attention to Trump’s vow to dismantle EPA - according to OH history- 11. The Cuyahoga River has caught on fire at least 13 times; it’s aptly nicknamed “The River That Caught Fire.” The river was one of the most polluted rivers in the country and would catch fire after sparks from the train would fall into the water. After a highly media-covered fire in 1969, Congress was inspired to clean up pollution across the country and established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

- Hand out placards with Trump’s face superimposed on the World’s Largest Cuckoo Clock (housed in Sugarcreek, OH) http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/11894

- Still fleshing this one out, Thomas Edison was born in Milan, OH. Hand out lightbulbs.. b/c the “lightbulb” hasn’t gone off yet with the GOP.. something like that..

Comments

Submitted by WaterLily on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 10:41am

SMH.

I loved the "fast-food worker strikes." LOL. Don't they get that you can't engineer things like that? They're all so freaking out of touch ...

Submitted by MsGrin on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 10:49am

It's all about POINTS and how things play on TeeVee

These are Ivy League graduates who, if they ever were in touch with regular folks, apparently checked that at the door when they took these gigs.

Thomas Frank is correct - the Democratic Party is Of By and For Elites these days. The professional class. Anything else is an empty symbol public relations stunt.

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Submitted by Ellen North on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:06am

If they 'got' reality, they'd

If they 'got' reality, they'd have been Berning with the rest of us, not working against the global survival of life on the theory that they'll die rich and of old age before for-profit industrial/military pollution and destruction reduces the Earth's oxygen level to a level which distresses them. Under the assumption that they'll still be valued by Those Who Matter and not lumped in with the rest of us disposable non-billionaires to be drained and garbaged once no longer of use.

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Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:27am

They get reality.

The reality is that they do very well sucking up to corporate lobbyists.

Submitted by Ellen North on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:32pm

Yeah, in the short-term,

Yeah, in the short-term, while they're needed, they do well. But swimming with sharks/carrying scorpions across rivers isn't always smart or safe.

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sun, 07/24/2016 - 11:28am

They get rewarded short term and long term.

I'm sure Bill and Hillary relatively lived well while he was AG, Governor and President. Among other things, Hillary got a seat on the board of WalMart, a corporation headquartered in Arkansas, and a partnership at the Rose firm, which did a lot of business for the State of Arkansas. I don't know what a WalMart director made then, but I bet a partner at the Rose firm did much better than the Governor. However, all of that was a drop in the bucket compared with the millions a year they made once they nominally left government. Cantor, Lieberman, Dodd, Holder, Dean and many others are making much more now than when they had official positions. And who knows what jobs their wives and kids, etc. were given.

Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sun, 07/24/2016 - 11:29am

They get rewarded short term and long term.

Double post.

Submitted by Alphalop on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:15am

LoL! Did you see the pathetic statement from the DNC CEO?

It was on CNN about an hour or so ago.

You can hear the panic in her voice it is trembling!

That is a normal tone when you have people in stressful situations or otherwise uncomfortable ones. For example, watch some interviews of regular people by the media, they all get that weird tone in their voice when they appear nervous about it.

I recognized it for what it was because I sounded like that in my first couple interviews with the media.

You can get rid of it with practice as you become comfortable and used to the idea of speaking with the media, that is unless tension or other powerful feelings overwhelm you, then it can come creeping right back.

I don't know for sure, it's possible she sounds like that all the time, I never listened to her speak before, but it sure sounds like it to me.

CNN - DNC Treatment of Sanders at issue in emails leaked...

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Submitted by lunachickie on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:32am

OK....

am assuming you mean DWS when you say "DNC CEO", right? Is there a link to her "statement"? I'm not seeing that at the link you have posted, there's an article there, but it's like the video there no longer exists (unless it's my browser, I've been having trouble with it lately).

Submitted by Alphalop on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:42am

No not DWS, She is the Chair. The CEO of the DNC Convention

Committee is the Rev. Leah D. Daughtry.

There is a video in the link I posted but couldn't embed the video because CNN makes it tough to do so.

Video is still there, may be a browser problem.

I went over and found it at youtube so I will embed it here now but only because it's you asking.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkl7pTD_Lcw]

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Submitted by Deja on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:56am

Lol CNN cannot verify the authenticity of emails

Since when do they verify the authenticity of anything? Flying chairs, anyone?

Then their guest says it too. We're moving forward. Haven't seen 'em. You can't verify. Gag!

Submitted by lunachickie on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:05pm

While that did occur to me, too

that and "When's the last time Wikileaks didn't dump something on a Friday afternoon?" I can't dismiss them.

There's always wiggle room for those liars. But the lightning speed in which CNN decided to "cover", coupled with disclaimers that "we can't verify" (yeah, like they ever do) tells me it's real enough.

Submitted by Alphalop on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:06pm

I think she is mistaking the word "Can't" for "won't"....

They are really in for a shitstorm at the convention after this.

I can see a sea of 1900+ PISSED Sanders Delegates already fuming from here.

I am off to costco to buy a pallet of popcorn and a 55 gallon drum of fake movie theater butter and Red Bull.

I don't want to miss a minute of the escapades.

Lets just hope it doesn't turn into another song (ala' 4 dead in Ohio) because it is indeed quite possible of an outcome.

Philly isn't known for it's gentleness to begin with. These are people that used to bring D batteries to sporting events and hurl them at the other sides fans back in the day.

A good rule of thumb, don't stick your arm into a monkey cage and don't go to Philly and piss off the locals. Neither can end well. (And Philly has a LOT of locals that support Sanders.)

Not all progressives are Peaceniks, particularly not when provoked by things like this.

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Submitted by lunachickie on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:25pm

Thank you so much

OMG

I hope Tim Canova is doing well against DWS. If Hillary loses and Canova beats DWS, she'll have to go be a lobbyist somewhere.

The poor dear....

Submitted by elenacarlena on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:12pm

I appreciate your posting it here like this too! I did manage

to load this one, but most MSM sites with videos take forever to load, if they don't crash my Internet. I don't know what they're doing wrong - I can watch videos with no problem here and Over There and at YouTube - but it's very frustrating. Too many ads and/or videos at once, I suspect. Perhaps autoplay is a problem too.

Anyway, I don't hear a tremble so much as a tightness, and it could just be she doesn't speak much in public. Interesting how she promptly refuses to answer the question though.

Nothing to see here, folks! Let's move along!

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Submitted by Ellen North on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:55pm

ROFLMAO Thanks for posting

ROFLMAO Thanks for posting that here, where I could see it as well.

Yup, heard the trembling in her voice as she produced the sort of PR BS denial/evasion Clinton herself is so experienced in and which has conned so many people up till now - and been trotted out so many times for so many Clinton/DNC-initiated 'incidents' that it's a little hard for even the brainwashed among actual 'just voters' to keep the blind faith in their pathological corporate candidate atop her mountain of corruption.

I notice that there's also no mention in the clip of the CNN interview of proof of the the corporate media producing made-to-order stories, which is hardly surprising...

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by MsGrin on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 1:00pm

I've seen at least a couple references to DNC peeps having issue

communicating with Leah - can't get her to respond and such.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

Submitted by MsGrin on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:07pm

Wow, she sounds shaky

So, her excuse is that if BOTH candidates are unhappy then the DNC must be being fair, yes? Well, um, is Clinton unhappy about the treatment of Sanders? I don't recall hearing that anywhere...

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

Submitted by lunachickie on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:09pm

Was Clinton unhappy about the treatment of Sanders?

Good point! No, you've never heard that anywhere. Because she's NOT.

Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:20am

Turning on the light makes roaches frantic.

Submitted by HenryAWallace on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:25am

Don't you have to be over 12 to work for the DNC?

Submitted by lunachickie on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:34am

Is there going to be a Rock The Vote event

that doesn't feature Katy Perry?

Submitted by elenacarlena on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:16pm

I actually like most of these ideas. The Repugs deserve to be

mocked mercilessly! And repeatedly! In ways big and small.

However, of course they should own it, not try to make it look like it's real fast food workers fighting for higher wages or some such. Just like the online shills should be clear that's who they are.

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Submitted by Ellen North on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 12:59pm

... Just like the online

.. Just like the online shills should be clear that's who they are.

Actually, the talking points used and the justifications for the unjustifiable often do make that rather more clear than they'd like...

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by lunachickie on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 2:11pm

As I always suspected

those lists of "talking points" that were to be "distributed" never failed to be tried out at The Daily Kos.

Every. Single. Time.

Submitted by Ellen North on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 2:50pm

Lol, funny how that worked,

Lol, funny how that worked, wasn't it?

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by MsGrin on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 1:16pm

Is it really the DNC, itself, which should do this mocking?

I agree the GOP ideas SHOULD be mocked, but I would prefer that this sort of tactic be done at a more grassroots level THIS IS ASTROTURFING and I tend to find that pretty reprehensible. Just as I find the DNC going after Bernie to be reprehensible.

If a CANDIDATE does some of these (like do a press conference by a polluted body of water), GREAT! That would make sense.
SOMEONE ought to do P.R. stunts like these, but the DNC represents the president and our entire political system, frankly, and I hate to see it sink to such childish tactics/gags as a part of how they do business.

Another classy example in a new essay: http://caucus99percent.com/content/hahahaha-dnc-not-only-lied-about-sand...

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Submitted by elenacarlena on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 1:24pm

It depends on the item, sure. Jerry Spinger, not so much.

Women's caucus in Cleveland, pointing out polluted waters and the origins of the EPA, why not?

As I noted, I don't like the astroturf aspect of it either, they should identify themselves. But why couldn't the DNC sponsor care packages or even a roast? I think it's OK to have a sense of humor. Even desirable, and setting our side apart from the Repugs (although granted, they did nominate Trump - but that's a very sick sense of humor).

President Obama has done some pretty good zingers in his time. It's probably partly why he has fairly good approval ratings.

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Submitted by MsGrin on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:08pm

I'm not opposed to humor

I just think what they produced was pretty sophomoric.

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Submitted by elenacarlena on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 11:36pm

Some of it was, granted. I presume this was a brainstorming

exercise - best performed without evaluation to enhance creativity, evaluated later.

Ha! I may be giving them too much credit.

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