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Senior Director of Communications @Everytown. Lapsed Florida Man.
Washington, DC
Joined March 2012
You're emailing me? It's the Friday before the week of Thanksgiving in the month before the winter holidays, and you're emailing me??.
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Huge congrats to the RNC on hitting their diversity goal of having 50% of key convention speakers without the last name Trump.
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Why Better Than Expected Midterm Results Spells Trouble For Democrats in 2024.
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Lil Jon and then Modest Mouse? The Millennials have seized the means of event production, folks.
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A decade ago Matt Gaetz led the charge in the FL legislature to mandate drug testing for folks on public assistance.
Some of the men and women took ecstasy before having sex, including Gaetz, two people familiar with the encounters said. In some cases, Gaetz asked women to help find others who might be interested in having sex with him and his friends.
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I don't care who the pick is as long as I am the first person to send the tweet to the group chat.
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You'll know they're about to call PA when the Philly city officials come out and start trying to Crisco the light poles.
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if you ever find yourself defending someone by saying "look, the Hitler thing is just baked in" it's time to reassess (and/or just own who you are!).
Chris Sununu on CNN on whether Trump praising Hitler causes him to reconsider his support for him: "No . we've heard a lot of extreme things from Donald Trump. With a guy like that, it's kinda baked into the vote."
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May seem silly to some but the idea of a Democratic candidate having one of these in the Villages with a strong turnout is genuinely impressive and a good sign for Team Biden in Florida.
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Doug Emhoff understood that the most important shout out you can give in the biggest speech of your life is not your family, friends, children, or spouse. It's the group chat.
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This should be a campaign ender.
BREAKING: The @USArmy has a new statement out on the incident at Arlington and @realDonaldTrump . Of note - they confirm that the parties were told of the laws against political activity. and that an employee was "pushed aside" and filing charges were on the table
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This is the exact rhetoric of the El Paso shooter.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: "This is an invasion from third world countries. They're coming here with health issues, they're uneducated, unemployed, and all they do is commit crime on the streets."
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"You have 5 seconds to delete the photo of Mountain Dew" is perhaps the funniest thing ever said in anger by a communications staffer at an earned media event.
Mountain Dew is ready to go for the visit of VP Nominee JD Vance to the Milwaukee police union, as the union gets ready to endorse Trump/Vance. A different campaign rep asked me to delete photo from my phone or he’d have me escorted out. He gave me 5 seconds. I refused.
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Chanting "stop the count" when you're behind in the count. is a hall of famer.
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when you are extremely not mad that you can't find a date in DC
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We honest to goodness have broken their brains.
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The NRA's first tweet after a shooter in Jacksonville carried out a racist mass murder with an AR-15 that had swastikas drawn on it.
Americans vehemently disagree with Joe on this. Millions of law-abiding citizens own and use AR-15s to defend themselves and their families.
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An effective evisceration of the insurrectionist theory of the Second Amendment from @RepRaskin:.
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if those aren't high heels then DeSantis needs to drop his anti-DEI shtick and run as the candidate for hoofed Americans.
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Free speech means news organizations I don't like lose their right to free speech.
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Again, Veep was a documentary and West Wing was a silly light comedy.
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Trump: "I think It's under control.". @jonathanvswan: "How? A thousand Americans are dying a day.". Trump: "They are dying. That's true. And it is what it is.".
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"The best we way can respect the voters who are upset is by TELLING THEM THE TRUTH." - @MittRomney.
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The ratio of Harris campaign to Trump campaign field offices in Pennsylvania is 12:1. The bill is starting to come due for Trump nixing the RNC's field program.
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Some solid, effective, concise messaging on some of these signs at the protest outside the NRA convention in Houston.
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"We love what they did." - @marcorubio on Trump supporters using their vehicles to try and run Biden supporters off of the highway, including crashing into a staff vehicle. Also Marco Rubio:.
Watch this video of Maduro thugs trying to use armored vehicle to run over a reporter covering protests from side of the highway in #Venezuela.
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Stuff like this is why comms is universally considered by all other departments as the smartest, best looking, and most important part of the operation, carrying everyone else on our backs.
Visualized: The overnight shift in tone when the Biden campaign became the Harris campaign. It's the same staffers writing these statements.
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8 days from e day in the year of our lord 2024 and GOP operatives are having a loud call on the Acela about what they’re seeing in House races in NY and PA. Turns out abortion is an effective message for Dems!.
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The GOP has found its midterm message: Joe Biden is raising wages for workers.
NRCC blaming Biden and Democrats for raising Chipotle worker wages - and the 4% burrito price hike that followed.
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Do *Members of Congress* really want to go down the road of how many days a week folks are working in the office?.
New: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) shows reporters a ‘naughty list’ of agencies that have yet to return to office post Covid-19. Topping the list of “no shows”, HUD and the SSA, with just 7% office occupancy rates. ERNST: “Covid’s been over for years, where are the workers?”
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*world’s longest drag of cigarette*. “We used to have proper campaign offices in this country.”.
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Me trying to navigate around 3 middle school tour groups:.
Sen. Roger Marshall: "I just want your listeners understand: Washington DC has become a warzone. I fear for the safety and life of my workers on Capitol Hill walking to and from work.". Really?
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RNC Research about to tweet "GET A LOAD OF THIS LOSER WHO LOVES HIS WIFE!!!".
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big shout out to those who dusted off a classic and did a Trump's New Tone piece just hours before he inevitably did not have a new tone.
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best of luck to everyone trying to be the first person to send a link to the Mark Robinson story to the gc.
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"A buzzword is worse than 1.13 million American deaths, actually" is certainly a take.
Nikki Haley at CPAC: "Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down."
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Megan Thee Stallion PR person as Marin Brundle interviews her on the grid ahead of the #USGP: "You can't do that.". Brundle to Megan Thee Stallion's PR person: "I can do that because I just did.
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We've reached the terminal stage of the @RonDeSantis campaign where you have senior staff having to be restrained from fighting one another.
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you're telling me this guy somehow got covid??.
Great to be in Georgia with @KLoeffler and @Perduesenate today! . As I told the crowd, Georgia needs to get out and VOTE to make sure we protect the Republican Senate majority.
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Can't stop thinking about how profoundly on brand it is that @marcorubio took a picture where he pretended to phone bank while wearing a headset that was not plugged in.
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Q: "Why did his tone change". @PressSec: "There has been no change.". EVEN THE WHITE HOUSE SAYS THERE WAS NO CHANGE OF TONE.
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Trump is so bad the man telling everyone to not touch their faces has to facepalm on live TV.
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When @AmericaFirstPAC isn't beclowning themselves with clumsy oppo pitches they get caught shopping, they're cutting ads using Russian stock footage. MAGA world is not sending their best.
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Now we know!.
Here's a thought. Let's base our view on whether 1/6 was an "insurrection" on whether those arrested are charged with insurrection. So far, none has been.
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Always funny how fast the folks screaming about Dems wanting to defund the police vote for quite literally defunding the police.
Johnson: We also advanced cuts to some of the agencies that have been turned against the American people. We are going to cut 3% from DOJ, 7% from the ATF, 6% from the FBI, and 10% from the EPA.
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While this is obviously silly, the actual answer is Trump talking about Kim Jong Un lol.
Biden just introduced Sean Fain. I'm wondering when the last time was a President of the United States acknowledged a literal communist during the #SOTU.
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On the night the Eagles won the Super Bowl, I passed three guys walking the other way down the street with an entire street light they'd somehow come into possession of. Like 18 feet long. Always wondered what the plan was.
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Trump wants points on the package.
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Trump hammering the idea that the election is rigged if he loses. This comes as his longest serving political advisor urges him to seize power if he loses.
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.@POTUS said the federal government will "pick up 100% of the cost to the county and the state. Tell me what you need." . Leadership.
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JD Vance, who took $10m from Peter Thiel, is accusing someone who has taken $165k from teachers of being bought and paid for.
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Taking Advantage of A Generous Social Safety Net and A More Level Economic Playing Field to Hoard Wealth and Property While Pulling the Ladder Up Behind You, Leaving the World Worse Than the One Your Inherited . vs. I Was Called Old On the Internet.
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It's true that covid vaccines were not required before they existed.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis: "A year and a half ago we started with 15 days to slow the spread. Now it's gone to get jabbed or lose your job."
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The joke is that you can use the American flag to try and beat police officers to death during an attempted coup.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) this morning at the Milwaukee Rotary Club: “To call what happened on Jan. 6 an ‘armed insurrection,’ I just think it's inaccurate.". "Now, some of the protestors did teach us all how you can use flag poles, that kind of stuff."
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"It is, with no exaggeration, the single most important piece of anti-poverty legislation since Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society, itself the signature program of a man who sought to emulate F.D.R.".
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vendors providing Trumpworld services without getting paid up front, every single time
SCOOP: Trump's Truth Social facing significant financial difficulties, vendors say. Its web hosting company says it is owed $1.6 million and hasn't been paid for months:
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there is being not mad online and then there is I Will Tweet Photos Of My Significant Other At Stranger To Prove I Am Not Single Or Mad Online
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Some personal news…. This week I’m starting at @Everytown as the director of federal and political comms. Excited to be joining such a talented team on such an important mission! . And big thank you to everyone at @American_Bridge who made the last 18 months such a great ride.
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you know, you really don't hear much about FDR's post-presidency, do you?.
Presidents should be able to commit crimes and get away with it, a WSJ op-ed argues:
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You guys I am beginning to suspect Trump may not have learned his lesson from January 6th.
Trump, flanked by cops, closes his event in Michigan: "If we don't win on November 5, I think our country is going to cease to exist. It could be the last election we ever have. I actually mean that."
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Trump won LA by 20 points in 2016.
#New Louisiana Poll:. Trump 50% (+7%).Biden 43%. ALG Research (D).
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No data, just vibes.
Speaker Mike Johnson: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that's easily provable. We don't have that number.". Sounds legit.
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another day of doing Normal Human Expressions on the campaign trail
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"The AP should not have the legal authority to call elections!". "It. doesn't?". "Ah, well. Nevertheless!".
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.@NRSC chair @SenRickScott won't say if strangling your wife or physically abusing your children is disqualifying for a GOP Senate candidate.
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Those SUVs aren't for security, they are to physically carry the suits back to the White House during Jos A Bank's buy 1 get 25 free sale.
A White House pooling duty first for me — we are standing outside a men’s clothing store in Wilmington as the president does some shopping.
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The White House has the same position on Trump's health care plan as they do on aliens and the JFK assassination.
"I'm not going to give you a readout of what our health care plan looks like and who's working on it. if you want to know, come work here at the White House" -- Kayleigh McEnany
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A literal Senator's son whose daddy bought him a seat in the Florida legislature three (3) years after he graduated law school lectures others on work requirements.
Gaetz: I am proud to stand with my many House Republican colleagues who believe there should be no increase in this debt limit absent rigorous work requirements…
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can someone slack Merrick and ask when he's hopping on the call.
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And not just that. In his speech to the NRA he bragged about doing nothing for gun safety in his first term and committed to rolling back the life-saving progress we’ve made in under Biden, including the first federal gun safety law in 30 years. The choice is clear.
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At this Ohio rally, Trump says suburban women "better get smart" and support him. That should do it!.
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