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Re: [AGENDA & MEMO] Friday Strategy Call at 8:00 AM ET

Good morning, Below please find background on fundraiser press for discussion on this morning's call. *Fundraiser Cell Phone/Press Access* Upcoming finance events - three events in NY (4/28) three events in DC (4/30) - three dates in LA and three dates in SF will be announced soon. *All events are large receptions 150-300 people in private homes, all will include a 50 person clutch with photo line beforehand.* **the finance team also told me they will be doing a ton of grassroots fundraisers in cities across the country where tickets are $20- if people are going to start writing up the big fancier ones it could be helpful to get these events out there as well. *Recommendation:* Establish 2 types of fundraising events, small (under 60 people) which will be closed to press and phones can be taken. Large events where phones will not be taken and we will have a print pooler. In addition to increasing access, an added benefit of having a pooler there is that donors will leak some of what HRC says to the press anyway, and it will likely be inaccurate. Below is a rundown of what others have been doing on press access at fundraisers. There have been no public reports about cell phones being confiscated so either it isn’t happening or donors aren’t leaking (my guess is the former). I have some concerns about collecting everyone’s phones at a 200+ person event. It goes beyond what POTUS does and seems more than likely that one of the donors will talk to the press and it will continue the extreme secrecy storyline. Yahoo: Obama campaign nixes cell phones at some fundraisers <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/obama-campaign-nixes-cell-phones-fundraisers/story?id=16347599> Time: Obama Campaign Bans Cell Phones at Private Fundraisers <http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/15/obama-campaign-bans-cell-phones-at-private-fundraisers/> *POTUS/FLOTUS* At DNC fundraisers cell phones are confiscated for events with under 60 people (essentially whenever there is Q and A and not just prepared remarks.) Press Access- when over approx. 60ppl they are pooled for print press, smaller events are closed (DNC got A LOT of pushback for this, some from WHCA) For FLOTUS we select one local print reporter to pool the event. *GOP 2016ers* *Jeb Bush* *Jeb held an open press fundraiser in Tallahassee prior to his speech to his foundation promising to be transparent. He also allowed reporters into a house party in NH. It doesn’t seem like reporters are generally let in though.* · “The New York events follow a Bush super PAC fundraiser in Tallahassee, Florida that included several hundred of the state’s top donors and fundraisers. The event was also open to reporters, part of Bush’s effort to run a more transparent presidential campaign.” [Politico, 2/10/15 <http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/jeb-bush-fundraiser-100k-per-ticket-115086.html#ixzz3Xsehok00> ] · “Aside from the press attention, Bush's trip to New Hampshire was fairly low key. He held no big, open-to-the-public events, only visiting a bioscience company in Hudson and attending a house party in Dover. He took questions during a roundtable event at the local company and again from attendees at the house party, hosted at the home of former New Hampshire GOP chairman Fergus Cullen.” [CNN, 3/14/15 <http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/14/politics/2016-jeb-bush-new-hampshire/>] o “His other appearances on Friday and Saturday, which included a fundraiser for Rep. Frank Guinta and meetings with New Hampshire leaders, were all private.” [CNN, 3/14/15 <http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/14/politics/2016-jeb-bush-new-hampshire/>] · NJ: Jeb Bush's Team Is Taping His Private Events 'As Much As Possible' <http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/2016-jeb-bush-fundraisers-20150402> *Chris Christie* I haven’t seen anything about formalized rules, but the vast majority of them have been closed to the press. *Ted Cruz* No specific rules or restrictions that I’ve seen yet. So far I’ve only seen dates reported but no stories of reporters getting denied access as of yet. *Rand Paul* Rand’s private fundraisers are generally closed press. Occasionally when he does closed press events he’ll have one friendly reporter there ie Matt Boyle <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/24/cato-president-rand-paul-will-be-next-president-of-the-united-states-of-america/> · *A Spokesperson For Rand Paul Said A Fundraiser Was Changed From Open Press To Closed In The Wake Of The Jesse Benton Resignation Because “Private Fundraisers Are Not Routinely Covered By The Media.”* “Rand Paul, of Bowling Green, has not commented about [Jesse] Benton's resignation from the McConnell campaign. Paul was scheduled to host a fundraiser Tuesday afternoon at Forcht Bank in Lexington's Hamburg Place for Republican state House candidate Ken Kearns, who is trying to defeat Democratic incumbent Susan Westrom. The Kearns campaign said last Friday that media could attend the event but on Monday said the event had been closed to the media, at Paul's request. The Kearns campaign gave no reason Paul, who generally is talkative to reporters, did not want the media to attend. Paul spokesman Dan Bayens said Tuesday that Paul is ‘most accessible to the media but he's doing a series of fundraisers that were billed as private. Private fundraisers are not routinely covered by the media.’” [Lexington Herald-Leader, 9/2/14 <http://www.kentucky.com/2014/09/02/3408212_mitch-mcconnell-declines-to-discuss.html?rh=1> ] *Marco Rubio* I haven’t seen anything on Rubio’s fundraisers being open to the press. *Scott Walker* Hasn’t announced his run yet so slightly more difficult but it appears his fundraisers have been closed press. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Marissa Astor <mastor@hillaryclinton.com> wrote: > Below please find the agenda for tomorrow morning’s 8:00 AM ET Strategy > Call. > > > > There is a memo for the DNC discussion attached to this email for your > review ahead of the call. > > > > AGENDA: > > 1. Clinton Cash update > > 2. DNC plan (see attached memo) > > 3. Phones / Pool plan > > > > > > Thank you! >