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http://blogs.reuters.com/talesfromthetrail/2015/04/15/clinton-video-production-team-credit-disputed/ Clinton video production team credit disputed NEW YORK – Hillary Clinton filled the online video that launched her run for the White House on Sunday with what her team call “everyday Americans”, whom she said she would champion. But her campaign team soon found themselves in disagreement with some of the voters who starred in the short film <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uY7gLZDmn4> alongside Clinton on an unexpected question: Who was holding the camera? Three of the people featured in the video — Jared Milrad and Nathan Jones of Chicago, and Sean Bagniewski of Des Moines, Iowa — said in interviews that they were contacted, filmed and interviewed by Hardpin Media, a production company made up of filmmakers who worked on President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. The Clinton campaign said it does not agree with this view: it said the film was produced by its in-house team. The distinction will prove important as the Clinton campaign makes financial disclosures to the Federal Election Commission. If Hardpin did indeed work on the film, they would be obliged to charge market rates under FEC rules, and the Clinton campaign would have to report it in its upcoming financial disclosures, according to Paul Ryan of the the Campaign Legal Center, a non-profit watchdog group. Josh Schwerin, a Clinton campaign spokesman, emailed over a brief statement: “Per the values that Hillary outlined for our organization, we are a team and this campaign isn’t about any one of us as individuals,” he wrote. “As such, it is our policy to credit our creative team as a whole for anything we produce.” Schwerin declined to say whether or not this meant Hardpin were involved in the two-minute film, most of which focused on Americans talking hopefully of what the future holds for them, with Clinton nowhere in sight until about the 90-second mark. Reached by phone, Noah Meisner, Hardpin’s executive producer, declined comment. Campaign-finance experts told Reuters they did not understand Schwerin’s explanation, and that it would not pass muster with the Federal Election Commission, which requires that campaigns itemize every payment to an outside vendor in regular disclosure reports, including those made in preparing for announcement. ”This sounds like there’s this grand kumbaya, that we’re all collectively responsible,” Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the transparency group the Sunlight Foundation, said, calling it the “opposite of accountability”. On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Marc Elias <melias@hillaryclinton.com> wrote: > Fine > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 14, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Josh Schwerin <jschwerin@hillaryclinton.com> > wrote: > > Marc are you ok with this? > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Kristina Schake < > kschake@hillaryclinton.com> wrote: > >> Fine here. >> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Christina Reynolds <creynolds@gpg.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Would tweak slightly. Does this work for people? >>> >>> The AP report is accurate. She began preparing earlier this year in >>> the event she decided to run." >>> >>> -- Tyrone Gayle Regional Communications Desk Hillary For America 904.612.3495 @TyroneGayle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "HRCRapid" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to hrcrapid+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to hrcrapid@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.