From: MirandaL@dnc.org
To: markpaustenbach@gmail.com
Date: 2016-05-21 22:34

Subject: RE: Bernie narrative

True, but the Chair has been advised to not engage.

So we'll have to leave it alone.

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From: Mark Paustenbach [markpaustenbach@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 8:23 PM
To: Miranda, Luis

Subject: Bernie narrative

Wondering if there's a good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess.

Specifically, DWS had to call Bernie directly in order to get the campaign to do things because they'd either ignored or forgotten to something critical.

She had to call Bernie after the data breach to make his staff to respond to our concerns. Even then they didn't get back to us, which is why we had to shut off their access in order to get them to finally let us know exactly how they snooped around HFA's data.

Same was true with the standing committee appointments. They never got back to us with their names (HFA and even O'Malley got there's in six weeks earlier) for the committees. So, again, the chair had to call Bernie personally for his staff to finally get us critical information. So, they gave us an awful list just a few days before we had to make the announcements.

It's not a DNC conspiracy, it's because they never had their act together.

        [emphasis added]

SOOO the "National Communications Director for the DNC," who was not shy about helping to write Bernie Sanders hit-pieces, decided to say NOOO to this one -- even though he agreed with the storyline (just pitched by the DNC's "National Press Secretary & Deputy Communications Director" ... Par for the course, of course.)

The reason being: "the Chair has been advised to not engage." -- Which begs the question: "Who is doing the advising?"

Perhaps this next exchange, between these same two highly-place DNC-officials, will shed some light on that question about who had the "final say" on the DNC's various "attack strategies" ...

[PS. The context implies "TPs" are "Talking Points" for 'TV vamping' ] ...

From: PaustenbachM @dnc.org
To: MirandaL @dnc.org
Date: 2016-05-05 20:12

Subject: Surrogate TPs from HFA

Mark Paustenbach
National Press Secretary &
Deputy Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
W: 202.863.8148
paustenbachm @dnc.org{mailto:paustenbachm @dnc.org}

From: Zac Petkanas [mailto:zpetkanas @hillaryclinton.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 3:41 PM
To: Paustenbach, Mark

Subject: Fwd: *5.5.16 Surrogate TPs*

it would be perfect if you could echo the contrast messaging frame for the Sabrina piece. Highlighting how he's too divisive and dangerous to president. And vamp on that. Not helpful to get into processy stuffy

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From: Mary Rutherford Jennings {mjennings @hillaryclinton.com{mailto:mjennings @hillaryclinton.com}}
Date: Thu, May 5, 2016 at 2:58 PM

Subject: *5.5.16 Surrogate TPs*

To: Mary Rutherford Jennings {mjennings @hillaryclinton.com{mailto:mjennings @hillaryclinton.com}}

Cc: Adrienne Elrod {aelrod @hillaryclinton.com{mailto:aelrod @hillaryclinton.com}}, Alexandria Phillips {aphillips @hillaryclinton.com{mailto:aphillips @hillaryclinton.com}}

Hi all,

Attached are some additional points that may be helpful for TV. Let me know if you need anything else.

Thanks!

Mary

--
Mary Rutherford Jennings
Hillary for America
501-920-6844 {tel:501-920-6844}

        [emphasis & links added]

SOOO there you have it. The DNC Communication Directors (and by implication, "The Chair") were are least in part, taking their "Marching Orders" from the Hillary for America organization (HFA) -- IF these 'insider email addresses' are to be any guide.

And OOOH how much it must have stung the DNC Chair, to be the 'dutiful soldier' and face the world, to 'put a happy face' on that "Awful List" of Sanders nominations, for the Democratic Platform Committee:

[...]
"We are delighted to bring together this talented group of Democrats," said DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. "These individuals represent some of the best progressive thinking from across the nation. I am confident that the members of this committee will engage Americans in a substantive dialogue of ideas and solutions that will inform our Party Platform."

SOOO "delighted" to be 'falling in line' -- for the sake of "party unity" we are left to presume, given the subsequent "happy themes" of the Democratic National Convention. (Remember those cut-away to Bernie's non-existent smiles?) Happy Days are here Again!

And SOOO, about those 5 "awful" Progressive names, that Bernie Sanders nominated to the Platform Committee [to counter-balance the remaining 10 picked by the DNC/HFA voting block]:

• James Zogby, a longtime activist for Palestinian rights as well as a DNC member and official,
• racial justice activist Cornel West,
• Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, among his most prominent elected backers,
• author and environmental activist Bill McKibben and
• Native American activist Deborah Parker.

Just an "awful list" according to the Communication Directors of the DNC. No doubt one that they would have gone on to besmirch and smear the individual characters and intents -- IF "higher authorities" hadn't intervened, to "advise them not to" ...

Just "par" for the so-called "democratic" course ... where "equal opportunity" was had by All.    (So long as, it is HFA-approved opportunity.)