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MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.25.200.195 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Jul 2015 23:32:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.200.195 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Jul 2015 23:32:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <SNT404-EAS39936FEDDE1C4F14E504CE2DF970@phx.gbl> References: <SNT404-EAS39936FEDDE1C4F14E504CE2DF970@phx.gbl> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 02:32:14 -0400 Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Message-ID: <CAE6FiQ8a-qAQRZYRV0ZmYzPKdoyZi9_Hu21QboMig_g2kVSMtA@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Campaign money and negative ads.... From: John Podesta <john.podesta@gmail.com> To: Brent Budowsky <brentbbi@webtv.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b3a82f0a607040519de9979 --047d7b3a82f0a607040519de9979 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Agree with second point and intrigued by first. Will kick around whether it's credible given our lead at this point. On Jul 1, 2015 9:11 PM, "Brent Budowsky" <brentbbi@webtv.net> wrote: > John, one thought worth considering would be for HRC to offer leadership > for a > better kind of politics by suggesting Democratic candidates agree to not > run > negative ads against each other during the primaries. A modern version of > Reagan's 11 commandment of Republicans not attacking each other. She would > get credit with voters for trying, Bernie would almost certainly agree and > O'Malley > doesn't matter at this point and probably won't.... > > HRC could then spend money running positive ads about herself, juxtaposed > against > Republicans, which helps her favorable and trust numbers, draws a nice > contrast > between her and Republicans, and when she has to go negative when > Republicans > do, she has a strong foundation of having campaigned for a higher standard > of > politics which voters want.... > > Frankly I thought it was dumb for McCaskill and Gutierrez to be attacking > Bernie. > We are going to need his voters to turn out in November for HRC, he won't > be > nominated. I am doing the opposite, repeatedly writing friendly and > positive > pieces about Bernie as an HRC supporter, and when the time is right I will > have > money in the bank with him and his people as a liberal to urge them to > come out > in force to vote for HRC.....which is not a given, and we won't have much > margin > for error in a close election.....Brent > > Sent from my iPad --047d7b3a82f0a607040519de9979 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <p dir=3D"ltr">Agree with second point and intrigued by first. Will kick ar= ound whether it's credible given our lead at this point. </p> <div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Jul 1, 2015 9:11 PM, "Brent Budowsky&quo= t; <<a href=3D"mailto:brentbbi@webtv.net">brentbbi@webtv.net</a>> wro= te:<br type=3D"attribution"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"marg= in:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">John, one though= t worth considering would be for HRC to offer leadership for a<br> better kind of politics by suggesting Democratic candidates agree to not ru= n<br> negative ads against each other during the primaries.=C2=A0 A modern versio= n of<br> Reagan's 11 commandment of Republicans not attacking each other.=C2=A0 = She would<br> get credit with voters for trying, Bernie would almost certainly agree and = O'Malley<br> doesn't matter at this point and probably won't....<br> <br> HRC could then spend money running positive ads about herself, juxtaposed a= gainst<br> Republicans, which helps her favorable and trust numbers, draws a nice cont= rast<br> between her and Republicans, and when she has to go negative when Republica= ns<br> do, she has a strong foundation of having campaigned for a higher standard = of<br> politics which voters want....<br> <br> Frankly I thought it was dumb for McCaskill and Gutierrez to be attacking B= ernie.<br> We are going to need his voters to turn out in November for HRC, he won'= ;t be<br> nominated.=C2=A0 I am doing the opposite, repeatedly writing friendly and p= ositive<br> pieces about Bernie as an HRC supporter, and when the time is right I will = have<br> money in the bank with him and his people as a liberal to urge them to come= out<br> in force to vote for HRC.....which is not a given, and we won't have mu= ch margin<br> for error in a close election.....Brent<br> <br> Sent from my iPad</blockquote></div> --047d7b3a82f0a607040519de9979--