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06/01/2016 07:50 AM EDT


By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; mallen@politico.com) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; dlippman@politico.com)

Good Wednesday morning, and welcome to June. It's 47 days to Cleveland, 54 days to Philly, and 160 days to Election Day.

"RATINGS BUMP" -- "MSNBC's year of standing up straight ... a new push for the network, away from the Lean Forward years," by Hadas Gold: In an interview, president Phil "Griffin boasted that the crisis has passed: MSNBC is succeeding as it rebrands from a place to 'lean forward' to the place for in-depth news coverage ... [This week MSNBC is] ... unveiling a new [ad] campaign ... [featuring] group portraits of four groups of MSNBC talent: 'Pros,' including Andrea Mitchell and Chuck Todd; 'The Codebreakers,' including Chris Hayes and Lawrence O'Donnell; the 'Road Warriors,' featuring campaign trail reporters like Katy Tur and Jacob Soboroff; and 'The Firebrands' which will feature only Joe
Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski ...

"[A]nother ad that will run in some conservative and mainstream outlets features some of MSNBC's conservative and Republican contributors - like ... Hugh Hewitt ... Steve Schmidt and former RNC chairman Michael Steele - with a cheeky message: 'People might start accusing us of leaning too far to the right.' ... Griffin said there are no changes coming to primetime, at least not before the election." With awesome pic, and two of the new ads http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d2d6c39f18d23d5d5eae5b278dd5eab1f273d8daba66766e12f5e2968ad91b19


SIREN -- "Adelson aides in talks to set up pro-Trump super PAC," by Alex Isenstadt: "Adelson's team has been in talks with a small group of big-name political consultants, including former [RGA] executive directors Nick Ayers and Phil Cox, former Rand Paul campaign manager Chip Englander, and former Mitch McConnell chief of staff Josh Holmes. ... Last week, Adelson adviser Andy Abboud met with Ayers in Las Vegas to discuss the possible group ... Chris Christie has also ... played a leading role helping to coordinate talks between a national network of donors and the possible consultants." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d2d6c39f18d23d5d5fd1a9516d3aea5d13f33fe1190b7935ced10c10cc34ee7e


--Sean Hannity voting Trump, per Nick Gass ... Hannity said on his Fox show last night, during an interview with Trump: "I am not the corrupt press. I'm actually the conservative here ... I'm an opinion show. And I don't hold back that I'll be voting for Donald Trump in November." Trump: "Thank you." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d2d6c39f18d23d5da351e7539bc3fdfe0cbf678f80e03b2e8773fbbf7e0a6cad


--GETTING THERE! Fred Malek, who has advised four U.S. presidents, in WashPost, "Trump's attacks on fellow Republicans must end. Now": "Many Republicans, including myself, are coming around to support him, but we also believe it is imperative for Trump to recognize that the time for slash and burn is over." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d2d6c39f18d23d5d6f6823d543e596a1e7f02f1d9716b7d4c2a276af88d0ec62


JUST POSTED, from Vanity Fair's Summer issue, "Inside Twitter's $10 billion identity crisis ...DORSEY'S DILEMMA," by Nick Bilton, author of "Hatching Twitter," now a Vanity Fair special correspondent (seven pages in mag): "The solution to Twitter's problems, [Twitter execs] reiterated, along with [CEO and co-founder Jack] Dorsey, is ... 'live.' ... He said he has a slew of new features-including hosting live video from the N.F.L., where people can talk about the game as they watch it-that will grow the audience and focus on that single, live strategy. ...

"[P]eople close to Facebook ... have told me that, while Zuckerberg could still be interested in buying the company, he wouldn't want to get into a bidding war. Apple is an option, perhaps, but a lot of people in the Valley believe it's got bigger challenges ahead, and a social network isn't going to help sell millions of iPhones. Then there are the not-so-sexy possibilities, such as Microsoft, Alibaba, or Verizon." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2177b0f87cb3726510dc806ad69460895a635740e1cf0088761bf1eeae67e9d1

POP SOME POPCORN: N.Y. Times intrigue - Sarah Ellison for Vanity Fair's The Hive, launching today, "Can anyone save The New York Times from itself?": James "Bennet's appointment [as Editorial Page Editor] fueled newsroom gossip that he had been brought back with the assurance that he would eventually succeed [Executive Editor Dean] Baquet. (Bennet told me this was not true.) ... Two former Times editors ... told me they heard reports that two editors on the masthead, Clifford Levy and Joe Kahn (who head up digital platforms and international coverage, respectively) wondered aloud what the Bennet appointment meant for them. Both Kahn and Levy, who are friendly with Bennet, deny this and say
they have nothing but enthusiasm for his arrival. ...

"It is impossible to imagine a world without The New York Times. But it is also increasingly impossible to imagine how The New York Times, as it is currently configured, continues to exist in the modern media world. ... The Times recently announced a meal-delivery service through which customers can pay to have ingredients from its recipe pages delivered to their doors.

"More significantly, it is [in]vesting heavily in native advertising, podcasting, and virtual reality. ... [T]here are those who question whether the Times has the cultural will, or fortitude, to make the necessary hard decisions." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2177b0f87cb37265f9219e7fd0a67ecd1febf85f9a344cef74da7aabea2f42c1


--NEW ON THE TWITTERS: @VFhive ... JON KELLY: "Welcome to The Hive ... Chaos at Twitter, psychodrama at the Times, and a Nobel-winning economist predicts Donald Trump's biggest nightmare! That's just launch day here at the Hive, a new site covering technology, business, politics, and the egos therein." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2177b0f87cb372656e43f6d407ffdd1dd4cc694ad80a7c00a10929100322f82d

TOP TWEETS: @jeneps: "Trump holds 2 pressers in 2 business days. Sanders takes no Qs at event billed as presser. Clinton hasn't held a formal presser in 6 months" ... @chucktodd: "If you watched cable news on mute today, you basically would have seen two things: Trump and the gorilla" ... @reidepstein: "'I didn't want to have credit for it,' Donald Trump said of the $6 million, which he touted at literally every campaign event since January" ... @amandacarpenter: "Trump has played this so he gets tons of airtime to list every donation made to vets. He's not stupid".


HOT HEADLINE on NYT "Critic's Notebook" on Trump presser, p. A11, "800-Pound Media Gorilla Pounds His Chest at Reporters," by James Poniewozik http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2177b0f87cb372656be41b92e7077fd0d085e50ca3404e4a4cefb0036f7b2c89 ... @blakehounshell: "Pulitzer for the Times copy editor who wrote this headline."


IN HIS OWN WORDS ... TRUMP PRESSER at Trump Tower: "I've been dealing with the press a long time. I think the political press is among the most dishonest people that I've ever met. I have to tell you that, OK? ... I'm going to continue to attack the press. Look, I find the press to be extremely dishonest. I find the political press to be unbelievably dishonest. I will say that. OK. Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you very much."

--"Testy Trump takes his war with the press to a new level," by AP's Michael Biesecker, Jill Colvin and Steve Peoples, with Jonathan Lemire: AP "spoke or left messages with each of the organizations Trump named. Of the 26 groups that responded, ... half said they had received checks from Trump just last week. Several said the checks were dated on or about March 24 and shipped out by overnight express - the same date as a Trump interview with The Washington Post ... [M]ore than a dozen big checks were rushed out ... early last week." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2177b0f87cb372651ab7665b31326139fc6481c82be548583ee1d6b76c62d018


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TOP TALKER - WashPost A1, bottom of page, "New stars will grace the D.C. dining scene," by Maura Judkis: "Michelin announced ... it has already deployed its famously anonymous inspectors throughout Washington restaurants ... in anticipation of the city's first Michelin Guide, which will go on sale Oct. 13. ... It will be only the fourth American city to be the subject of a current Michelin Guide, after New York, San Francisco and Chicago. (Michelin previously published guides in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, but it ceased evaluating both cities in 2010 for economic and geographical reasons, a Michelin spokesman said.)" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2177b0f87cb37265be4ed5b454917944ecec920b60e88a4796416a0945542a8d


DOUG SCHOEN in WSJ, "Clinton Might Not Be the Nominee": "There is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton may not be the Democratic nominee for president. ... The inevitability behind Mrs. Clinton's nomination will be in large measure eviscerated if she loses the June 7 California primary ... That could well happen. ...

"A Sanders win in California would powerfully underscore Mrs. Clinton's weakness as a candidate in the general election. Democratic superdelegates-chosen by the party establishment and overwhelmingly backing Mrs. Clinton, 543-44-would seriously question whether they should continue to stand behind her candidacy." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2177b0f87cb37265943fbd1326bc1ea450a56c241815d4ff9f8869bea163d4d8


--Fortune's Alan Murray: "A majority of Fortune 500 CEOs favor Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump in the presidential election, according to a survey conducted last month by Fortune. The survey, which was sent to all Fortune 500 CEOs, asked which candidate they would favor most as next President of the United States, and gave only the two leading candidates as options. Of those answering, 58% said Clinton; 42% said Trump." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=2177b0f87cb37265c436f0b3d3f1a518e6a93c702da6384300387251b0f2b8e6


FIRST LOOK ... SEAN SPICER RNC memo, "State Department IG Report Exposes Clinton's Dishonesty," echoes Trump nickname: "[W]ith the Judicial Watch lawsuit and the FBI investigation still rolling full steam ahead, the worst of Hillary Clinton's woes over her secret email server may still be yet to come. It's going to be a long summer for Crooked Hillary." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c68899a1187707355df8e82293ce4de3def53f5acbe2e830a19d4


HAPPENING TOMORROW -- "Clinton launching national security case against Trump in California speech," by WashPost's Anne Gearan: "Clinton's campaign hopes that there are many ... national-security-minded Republicans and independents who would vote for her, even grudgingly, rather than see Trump win the White House. ... She will deliver what her campaign calls a major foreign policy address in California on Thursday, focused both on her ideas and leadership credentials and on what she will describe as the threat Trump poses to national security. 'Clinton will rebuke the fear, bigotry and misplaced defeatism that Trump has been selling to the American people,' an aide said."
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c688952bc1be088b8631651f872e6d3822d004d66dd800da5a263


VEEPSTAKES - USA Today p. 1A, above fold, "USA Today Vice President Power Rankings: Sen. Kaine tops list for Clinton -- He's a party insider Clinton would be able to work with, experts say," by Paul Singer. 1)Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) ... 2) Labor Secretary Tom Perez, "a hero of organized labor" ... 3) Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) ... 4) Sen. Sherrod Brown (Ohio) ... 5) Rep. Xavier Becerra (Calif.), "the only Latino holding a Democratic leadership post in Congress" ... 6) Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.). http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c6889f82447c7683ada7a4eb21f27784f872b8fde393e4e487b58

--"Corker: Fed probe won't hurt me with Trump," by John Bresnahan: "'In some ways, you could look at what has happened over the course of the last year - if that was something that was gonna matter - you could almost look at it as a blessing,' the Tennessee Republican said in an interview, referring to the inquiries by the FBI and the [SEC]. 'From the standpoint of my finances, I will be the most vetted person here.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c68895c9cd2bc6121e88da450743736a89b8ecef4a9ff6c54b697


SPOTTED: Gov. Christie with his family on Sunday night at Italian farm-to-table restaurant Eno Terra in Kingston, N.J., where he was in town for his son Andrew's graduation from Princeton - Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c688906dabaf3b0ae091362bbd164323d6bd1ee05e59e8ffeb1ee (h/t Mallory Shelbourne) ... Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) yesterday enjoying a Miller Lite, as a proud Wisconsinite would, at the Delta Sky Club at the Minneapolis airport.


HAPPENING TODAY -- "Obama to Lay Out Campaign Choices," by WSJ's Carol E. Lee: "In his first major foray into the 2016 debate, the Democratic president will draw a contrast between the parties' economic policies, noting that Republicans have opposed much of his agenda, and argue that a Democrat is needed in the White House to make further progress on the economy. ... Obama will deliver Wednesday's speech in Elkhart, Ind., the city where he made his first trip as president in the midst of the economic crisis. It is an official White House event, not a campaign event." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c688905841a6308f8493680fc39890f0ca80fd0277edf70907c1b

--"Animated by 2016 race, Obama to take victory lap in Indiana," by AP's Josh Lederman: "Seven years ago, newly elected President Barack Obama came to a blighted stretch of northern Indiana [Elkhart] and predicted a tough but certain recovery - if the country embraced his approach to re-juicing the economy. He returns Wednesday seeking credit for having lifted the U.S. out of the doldrums ...

"Obama's renewed popularity nationally is enough that the party is firmly embracing his policies in the presidential election, especially on the economy. ... The White House didn't shy away from the notion that Obama's appearance ... would be viewed as an early foray into the 2016 campaign." With pic of Obama in '09 http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c6889affb52ade4e4bf7c7758301bf3aa86f0ce537339827bf73a

HOW TRUMP IS PLAYING ... WashPost lead editorial, "Yes, it would be like this: Mr. Trump is unapologetic about his intention to bully the press and his opponents if elected" (online: "Donald Trump, bully in chief") http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c6889ffe1e47ccf8293282d47ebb8da1fa37ad19631d960ef0ad6 ... N.Y. Times 1-col. lead of the paper, "TESTIMONY CALLS TRUMP'S SCHOOL UNSCRUPULOUS: 'PREYED UPON ELDERLY' -- Candidate's Lawyers Say Claims Have Been 'Discredited'" ...

... N.Y. Times p. A1, also above fold, "Trump Vilifies Media Asking About Veterans" ... WashPost 2-col. lead of the paper, "Charity scrutiny riles up Trump: MEDIA 'MAKE ME LOOK VERY BAD,' HE SAYS - Mogul lists veterans groups, explains 4-month delay."

--"NYC scrutinizing Trump campaign's use of Trump Tower atrium," by AP's Jake Person, with Jonathan Lemire: "The landmark tower's grand marble lobby is supposed to be open to visitors from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily under an agreement that Trump struck with the city back in the late 1970s in return for the right to make the tower bigger. City inspectors are examining whether people were barred ... for a Trump news conference, one of many campaign events the Republican has held in the atrium ... An executive and lawyer for the Trump Organization, Michael Cohen, insisted the atrium remained open." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c68891974538a26c48ebc85d469164204cf2ee5dbf59da00cc965

-- "National Press Club president [Tommy Burr of The Salt Lake Tribune] blasts Trump," by Hanna Trudo: "'Trump misunderstands - or, more likely, simply opposes - the role a free press plays in a democratic society,' Burr said in response to Trump's remark that journalists should be 'ashamed of themselves' for digging into his fundraising efforts on behalf of veterans groups." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=5ab51ce8ba9c688960db0d378a4ee83c257fb2deaa3644a8117f3025c4481ab8 ...Release http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f7614d12b04aa8c527fa214e74a69cb8e94cd24c439a6570bb

SOCIAL 2016 -- "Inside the origins of Trump's high-octane Twitter account," by AP's Julie Pace: "Peter Costanzo is the man who helped turn Donald Trump into @RealDonaldTrump. ... Costanzo - a 51-year-old who goes by @PeterCostanzo on Twitter - now works as digital and archival publishing manager for The Associated Press, a position that is separate from the news department. ... During the roughly eight months when Costanzo was in charge of the burgeoning Trump Twitter account, each missive was carefully crafted by the publishing company or the businessman's office. Trump got final approval before Costanzo pressed 'Tweet.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f79f445a71904be3964b826934b243ed63e4f612ca460df6d7

BILL KRISTOL'S DREAMS -- "Kristol Eyes Conservative Lawyer David French for Independent Presidential Run," by Bloomberg's Mark Halperin and John Heilemann: "French is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. According to the website of National Review, where French is a staff writer, he is a constitutional lawyer, a recipient of the Bronze Star, and an author of several books who lives in Columbia, Tenn., with his wife Nancy and three children. ... [T]wo Republicans confirmed that French is open to launching a bid, but that he has not made a final decision. One of the Republicans added that French has not lined up a vice-presidential running mate or significant financial support."
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f788dd0103363095eacf3f34c07e320292ab1c46681d64b802

--@MittRomney: "I know David French to be an honorable, intelligent and patriotic person. I look forward to following what he has to say."


--@PoliticoKevin: "So when David French was in Iraq, he wouldn't let his wife e-mail men or use Facebook." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f76ed7aac105507a24bc03b0c9a1a5b2853690dfb091a7bc01


--Josh Barro (@jbarro): "DISCLOSURE: I got a C+ in Kristol's class when he was a visiting prof at Harvard, because I can't come up with good ideas like David French."

--TRUMP on "Hannity," re Kristol: "I don't think he has anybody because now he's saying 'it will come someday, it will come you know in the future.' Well, if you read his tweet, his tweet was almost like it was imminent, like it's going to be announced this morning. And then all of the sudden he announced 'well, maybe not so fast.'

"Who would do it? Look, it's a guaranteed loss. You can't even get on in Texas because they missed their deadline and now they're missing other deadlines. And all he's doing, I guess, is trying to get publicity for his failing magazine, I imagine. ...

"Well, Bill Kristol is - he's a sad case. His magazine is failing. It's going to be out of business soon. And to be honest with you, the -- I watched the guy on television for years now and he's been saying Donald Trump won't run and if he runs, he's just going to have fun and he's going to get out and, you know, all of this stuff."

CLICKER - "Mad Magazine Gets In On The Donald Trump Action" - The cover reads "Another Brainless Issue of Mad," with Trump's head opening up and Alfred E. Neuman coming out. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f773c60073c8363b8728413a28b63953462f8943bb7697e546

TO TELL YOUR KIDS -- WashPost A1, bottom of page, "Teach for America retools efforts to recruit top prospects," by Emma Brown: "Applications for TFA's two-year teaching stints have plummeted 35 percent during the past three years, forcing the organization to reexamine and reinvent how it sells itself to prospective corps members. It has particularly been focusing on how to engage students at the nation's most-selective colleges, where the decline in interest has been among the steepest." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f726c820eb0c01776f1ecf306aa38c8228bd228372560b373e

PIC DU JOUR - The big Knight-Ridder sign is finally being taken off its former corporate HQ in San Jose 10 years after the newspaper chain was bought by McClatchy. It's being replaced by a sign for KQED, which has its Silicon Valley office in the building. Knight-Ridder was long based in Miami but moved to San Jose in 1998 with the Internet bubble in full force. Photo credit: Cris Ayala http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f7afc6cea7529fdedf79bfc409f3acb9de913cf01eb5ded50c ... San Jose Business Journal story on the change http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f73508118530723c8f4b14d8598cf073aafdb6b2b6640666a8

MEDIAWATCH -- "SiriusXM suspends Glenn Beck over Trump conversation," by Hadas Gold: "Last week, fiction writer Brad Thor appeared on Beck's program and suggested presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is a danger to America and that citizens would have to take means that may not be legal in order to get Trump out of office. Beck did not immediately admonish or distance himself from the comments, leading to the suspension by SiriusXM." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f7b5743068f11bcf2ede3f1be44b869238b69f62bede5fb948


- "AP style changes take effect with debut of redesigned Stylebook," out today: "includes nearly 250 new or revised entries and the first interior page redesign in decades. ... 36 new and updated entries in the food chapter, from arctic char to whisky/whiskey, and eight new and updated entries in the fashion chapter, including normcore and Uniqlo. The changes to the 2016 Stylebook also include: 50 new and updated technology terms, including emoji, emoticon and metadata ... New entries discouraging the use of child prostitute and mistress [and] restricting spree to shopping or revelry, not killing." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=23c1020b9fd5d3f7e36b260667925ad828fd055f534cda4462a346dc495b37fc ... The cover
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VALLEY TALK -- "High-security luxury smartphone launched for global elite," by FT's Daniel Thomas: "A luxury smartphone that offers military grade security and high level cyber protection for the 'international elite' has been launched by Israeli and Kazakh investors. The Solarin range of phones will cost at least L9,500 for the most basic models, which puts it into a similar range to other high-end smartphone brands such as Vertu. ... The KoolSpan chip-to-chip 256-bit AES encryption system is used by the military to protect communications ... and is activated by a security switch on the back of the handset." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6d21e00d0e6e00435f3eab286e3a5fbd51848d88e12a53a606fc15645b3b5f21

HOLLYWOODLAND -- "Disney Announces Release Date for 'Mary Poppins' Sequel," by Variety's Brian Kroll: "Walt Disney Pictures have officially announced that Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda are set to star in their 'Mary Poppins' sequel and have also dated the pic for December 25, 2018. ... Blunt has been cast as Mary Poppins and Miranda will play a new character, a street lamplighter named Jack." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6d21e00d0e6e0043601e25a530779fe5e8e9e8a7b3d9a41d2f72bacaf35d11ee

REMEMBERING BRIANNA KEILAR's mom, Miriam - Brianna posts on Facebook: "Miriam Allen Keilar, 61, of Mission Viejo, California, passed away on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at Saddleback Valley Hospital with her husband by her side. Miriam was the rock of her family and she will forever be remembered for her wit, caring, creativity, intuition and moxie. ... Miriam was a constant presence in the lives of her kids and grandkids.

"She would leave autocorrected words in her texts for a laugh and write them hilarious letters from the point of view of the family pets. She was an elementary school teacher for more than 28 years, known by colleagues for spending extra hours and seeking out additional resources for students in need. ... Miriam is survived by her husband, Glenn Keilar; her daughter Kelly Keilar of El Dorado Hills, CA; her daughter Brianna Keilar of Washington, D.C., her grandchildren Andrew and Lucas; her father Glen (Rose) Allen, of Vernal, UT; and her brother Robert (Marianne) Allen, of Ventura, CA." Her FB post, private to friends http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6d21e00d0e6e0043ef64ad7dcb0f81a2df444eb99d28ed1982d16ab2c19a3042 ... 3 pix of her mom
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6d21e00d0e6e0043d9c8cb7e92850726344882c9bc539ecdedf15f468429159d ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6d21e00d0e6e0043e155e9276f5ad2c9ab52fdc37c3952cb0dae40dd8c2f2246 ... http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6d21e00d0e6e004316a7543431aa6bfe4fb983b2eeeeaf9ab59fd1125ea3a945

TRANSITIONS -- "Ken Cuccinelli Joins FreedomWorks Foundation as General Counsel: "In November 2009, he was elected to serve as the 46th Attorney General of Virginia, a post he held from January 2010 to January 2014. In June 2014, Cuccinelli was named as the president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, a role he will continue to perform while at FreedomWorks Foundation." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6d21e00d0e6e0043a9863ef84630b83159802dc013f9b2a2fe5476c21528a7b9

WASHINGTON, INC. - "Three former Obama campaign operatives have launched District Political to give candidates running for state and local office the look, feel and reach of a top-tier national campaign. Partners Josh Brown, John Rodriguez and Jaime Alonzo served in senior roles for Rep. Raul Ruiz and former Rep. Brad Schneider before focusing on state and local campaigns to make more of a direct impact. The firm also works with businesses and non-profits to significantly improve their marketing by implementing strategies pioneered in the political campaign world." www.districtpolitical.com

WEEKEND WEDDINGS - Campaign statement: "Rep. Alan Grayson [D-Fla., running for Senate] and his wife Dr. Dena Grayson [a physician and biochemist running for Grayson's U.S. House seat] had a small, private wedding ceremony Sunday evening, with friends and family in attendance to celebrate their union, in the Florida beach town where Dena grew up." She's already wearing her congressional spouse's lapel pin in her Facebook profile pic. Wedding beach pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=6d21e00d0e6e0043cbc2919b133aafde20005a248bc0761b46d9bc29d800d821 ... Marc Caputo story, "Alan Grayson marries candidate who wants to replace him" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4ed3792ade244b383f895d415b760e6feb5b113587c1c0161c782fc9ecde76d8

--Shelly Banjo, consumer and retail columnist at Bloomberg Gadfly and a WSJ and Quartz alum, and Steven Russolillo, columnist for WSJ's Heard on the Street and Ahead of the Tape and a Goldman Sachs alum, got married on Saturday night at Camp Young Judaea Texas in Wimberley, Texas, where Shelly went to summer camp as a kid. They renamed it Camp Banjillo to combine their names. They met at the WSJ in 2008. Pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4ed3792ade244b3868e9b171578a93b6592003e0289cc4624e05450c701fe395

SPOTTED: WSJ's Sara Germano, Erica Orden, and Annie Gasparro, former WSJers Joe Checkler, Brett Philbin, Ann Zimmerman and Kaitlyn Kiernan, Carly Schwartz, Jordan Chariton, Jon Kell, Anjali Athavaley, Emily Ramshaw, Ashley Yore, Gillian Tan, Serena Brahney.

OUT AND ABOUT IN NYC: Eric Holder and Julianna Margulies hosted a "Lawyers for Hillary" fundraiser last night at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. About 800 people attended and in her speech, Hillary called Trump unqualified and quoted President Obama's line on how Trump had "rattled" world leaders. To be an event chair, one had to raise $27K and for an event host, $10K. To attend, one had to either be a "Champion" for $2,700 with "premium seating," a "Fighter" for $1,000 with "preferred seating," and with "limited availability," an "Advocate" for $500 with "general seating," or a "Young Lawyer" for only $250. Theinvites http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4ed3792ade244b38ae1e90f29ac54d084ee6a2d5fa0e0caeef03962c292f8700 ...
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BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): Katie Troller Bond, manager of federal gov't relations for Walgreens, who celebrated with brunch with friends at Belga on Monday, and dinner last night at Kinship ... Aditi Srinivas of Hamilton Place Strategies (h/t Sabrina Siddiqui) ... (was Monday): HPS' Stratton Kirton (h/t Sabrina) ... Rob Noel ... Loren Duggan, head of gov't affairs content for Bloomberg Government ... (was Friday): Andrew Tabler of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (h/t Mallory Shelbourne)

BIRTHDAYS: Sam Smith is 3-0 (h/t Bubba) ... Alex Allbritton is 9 (h/t Mom and Dad) ... Dan Bartlett (h/t Allyson) ... Alex Stoddard, director of federal gov't relations at WestRock (hat tips: Geoff Morrell, sister Jane) ... Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) is 6-0 ... Spencer Ackerman, national security editor at The Guardian and a Wired alum, is 36 ... MSNBC political reporter Alex Seitz-Wald, who just got married this past weekend to Lucia Graves - they're celebrating for a few days on an island off the coast of Maine - pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4ed3792ade244b38c2f90c80f224185882de1af306c4f2252cb2230aff145601 ... Washington's favorite winemaker Alex Gambal ... Jenny Cizner of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs ... Karen Tramontano
of Blue Star Strategies (h/ts Jon Haber) ... Irena Vidulovic, special assistant to the Chairman at U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a DNC alum ...

... Cruz-world's Jason Johnson ... Greg Nelson, special assistant to the President and Senior Advisor ... Nairi Hourdajian, director of corporate comms. at Uber and a GPG alum ... Erin Shields Britt, director of corporate comms. at CVS Health and an HHS and Senate Finance alum ... GOP ad man and Pittsburgh native Jim Innocenzi ... Mark Lotto, editor-in-chief at Matter and a GQ and NYT alum ... 2008 GOP convention alum Matt Burns, now VP of comms. for Medicare & Retirement at UnitedHealthcare and a Pataki, VA and Burson-Marsteller alum ... Mac O'Brien, senior associate at Hamilton Place Strategies ... Suzanne Merkelson, world traveler and public affairs manager at SolarCity ... Addie
Bryant, director of policy and advocacy and chief of staff at Engage Cuba, and a Mark Warner alum ...

... Sean Kennedy, former Obama WH aide turned SVP of Airlines for America ... Steve Duprey ... Diane Zeleny, director of comms. and public affairs at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a State alum ... Bill Shuler, Senior Pastor at Capital Life Church ... Christopher Minakowski, principal partner at Starboard Government Affairs and a Heritage alum Dominic Vilmain, recent proud graduate from the University of Iowa ... Abby Spring ... Timothy Gannon ... Heather Matson ... Addisu Demissie (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... Steven Holmes ... Dee Sachetti ... Terrance Green ... actor Richard Erdman is 91 ... Pat Boone is 82 ... Morgan Freeman is 79 ... Heidi Klum is 43 ... Alanis Morissette is 42 ...
actress Willow Shields is 16 (h/ts AP)

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