BULLETIN -- BC-US--APNewsAlert/18 05:20 AM. “FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Authorities: 2 killed, as many as 17 shot at nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida.” The local CBS affiliate says the shooting happened at a “teen party at [a] Fort Myers nightclub.” http://bit.ly/2amRJU7
Good morning from Philadelphia. In one day, the collective expectation of Washington was turned on its head: The Democratic convention in Philadelphia could make the GOP confab in Cleveland look like a breeze. It’s scorching hot here, and will remain in the 90s all week. The forecast says the convention will be bookended by rain Monday and Friday. Protests are expected to be larger than what we saw in Cleveland. Bernie Sanders’ supporters are loud, and prevalent. Getting a taxi at 30th Street -- the Amtrak station -- is a disaster. The convention is on the other side of town from the hotels. And Democrats just canned the chairwoman of their party after 20,000 internal party emails were laid bare, some of which showed untoward favoritism to Hillary Clinton in her battle against Bernie Sanders.
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THE NEW NARRATIVE -- A moment of reckoning for the DNC -- and HOW TO FIX IT -- The conversation among top Democrats is that this is the action-forcing moment for change at the Democratic National Committee. It’s broken, operatives with ties to the organization say, and is being lapped by the Republican National Committee. One well-known, veteran Democratic operative who has worked with the DNC suggests four fixes that will become baked into the zeitgeist in the coming weeks and months:
“1) I have always said the party chair should never be an elected official worried about reelection or with immediate higher political ambition. While you have the title chairman, you are essentially a staffer -- especially when you control the WH. That is the mentality that is needed. 2) The DNC needs to figure out what its core mission is. Again, that is hard when you are in the majority because then your basic role is fundraising. But what is it they want to be responsible for. State party-building is admirable but what does that mean in reality? They spent $188 million last cycle -- what was the mission of it? This is also particularly relevant post-Citizens United. 3) The DNC should do data and analytics in a real way. It’s a huge investment but would pay huge dividends and save down-ballot millions. 4) The DNC needs to look at the whole field not just the presidency. Again, this is tough when you’re in power. But as much as I hate to admit it, if you look at the down-ballot success Republicans have had over the last 6 years, a lot of that is directly attributable to RNC.”
BUZZ -- THE NEXT DNC CHAIR -- Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY’s List, is the leading candidate. In addition to running EMILY’s List, Schriock managed Senate races for Al Franken and John Tester and has very close ties with the Clinton campaign … HUD Secretary Julian Castro … Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings (“He ... has an unimpeachably progressive record and has been able to be committed to the progressive movement as well as the health of the Democratic Party,” a source said.) … LONGSHOT: Elizabeth Warren.
SPOTTED: Debbie Wasserman Schultz out in Philadelphia last night. She dropped by a fete for her long-time fundraiser Jason O’Malley at Prime Rib and was also spotted walking out of Maggiano’s at 12th and Filbert.
WEINSTEIN IN SAINT TROPEZ: I’LL RAISE $100 MILLION FOR HILLARY IF SHE’S LOSING -- Harvey Weinstein, a major Hillary Clinton supporter, told attendees at the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation Gala in Saint Tropez Wednesday that he would raise $100 million for Clinton if she’s losing to Donald Trump in October, according to an attendee. SPOTTED: Bradley Cooper, CAA’s Michael Kives, Chris Rock, Arnon Milchan, Bono, Kate Hudson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Larry Gagosian and Wendi Murdoch.
TRUMP BUMP? -- CNN/ORC: Donald Trump 44, Hillary Clinton 39, Gary Johnson 9, Jill Stein 3. In a two-way race: Donald Trump 48, Hillary Clinton 45. http://cnn.it/2a9YLIx ... CBS: Donald Trump 42, Hillary Clinton 42.
--@BuzzFeedAndrew: “That Trump’s run an awful campaign, alienated every group & still within striking distance makes you wonder who’s really a weaker candidate.”
HAPPENING THIS MORNING -- Hillary Clinton is speaking at the VFW National Convention in Charlotte. Before the speech, she’ll get the endorsement of Gen. John R. Allen, who formerly served as the head of the U.S. Central Command and the commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan. While there, Clinton will lay out a contrast with Donald Trump, including a “commitment to our allies, including NATO, as critical to our safety,” according to an aide.
TONIGHT IN PHILLY -- DREAMer Astrid Silva, Sen. Bernie Sanders, First Lady Michelle Obama.
MEANWHILE, IN VIRGINIA... -- “Trump, Pence to speak Monday at Hotel Roanoke,” by The Roanoke Times’ Alicia Petska: “Donald Trump and running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence are heading to Roanoke, choosing the city for their first post-convention campaign appearance. The event, [is] a town hall set for [today] at 3 p.m. at the Hotel Roanoke … [S]everal local sources said around 1,000 tickets are expected to be available.” http://bit.ly/2a6wDIR
TICK TOCK -- “Inside the scramble to oust Debbie Wasserman Schultz,” by Glenn Thrush, Gabe Debenedetti and Isaac Dovere with Annie Karni: “John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman – and a former top adviser to Barack Obama – broached the idea of replacing Wasserman Schultz as early as last fall, only to be rebuffed by the president’s team … After Obama’s 2012 victory, Messina and longtime political adviser Patrick Gaspard, who worked under Wasserman Schultz at the DNC, pressed the president to push her out, advising he tap former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak as her replacement. Obama – who cared little for the party machinations – figured the move would be more trouble than it was worth and told his aides that he was OK having Wasserman Schultz serve as chairwoman until he left office. ‘It’s embarrassing that Obama left the problem for Hillary,’ one former West Wing adviser told POLITICO.” http://politi.co/2amttS3
--ON D.W.S. -- This couldn’t have come at a worse time for Wasserman Schultz. She has an Aug. 30 primary against Tim Canova, a progressive who has taken up Bernie Sanders’ mantle. Wasserman Schultz has been asking her colleagues to contribute money for the increasingly competitive intraparty fight. If you listen to Wasserman Schultz’s loyalists, they say she was unfailingly loyal to a president who abandoned her. She raised gobs of money for the DNC, and supported the president’s priorities, including the fast-track authority for trade deals and the Iran nuclear accord. “After the president's re-election in ‘12, she got little credit for Obama winning Florida or for women and Jews turning out in large numbers for Obama (reasons she was chosen in the first place), yet was given a lot of the blame for a bad midterm election in 14,” an insider said. “It’s the most thankless job in this town.”
“She maintains her longstanding belief that despite the obvious personal feelings of people on the staff, she ran a neutral primary when it came to the day-to-day things the DNC actually controlled,” another DWS ally said. “Let the woman who busted her ass for five years raising money and criss-crossing the country for Democrats leave with some dignity and appreciation for [chrissakes].”
HOW IT PLAYED -- NYT (four columns, A1): “LEAKS BRING DOWN A DEMOCRATIC LEADER” http://nyti.ms/2abdUvV … DRUDGE:“DEMS EMAIL DISASTER ALL THE DIRTY DETAILS! CLINTON CORONATION IN DISARRAY” … WaPo (four columns, A1): “DNC leader pushed out over email leak … HuffPo: “FEAR: PUTIN MEDDLING IN U.S. PREZ ELECTION” … N.Y. Post cover, “OVERBOARD! DNC boss tossed amid leak scandal” (shows Hillary/Kaine in a row boat with a floating DWS in the water nearby) http://nyp.st/2a5g42P
KREMLIN ANGLE -- NYT A1, “As Democrats Gather, a Russian Subplot Raises Intrigue,” by David E. Sanger in D.C. and Nicole Perlroth in Olympic Valley, Calif., with Nick Corasaniti in D.C.: “An unusual question is capturing the attention of cyberspecialists, Russia experts and Democratic Party leaders in Philadelphia: Is Vladimir V. Putin trying to meddle in the American presidential election? ... [R]esearchers have concluded that the [DNC] was breached by two Russian intelligence agencies, which were the same attackers behind previous Russian cyberoperations at the White House, the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff last year. And metadata from the released emails suggests that the documents passed through Russian computers.” http://nyti.ms/2ar15Q5
HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE -- “Leaked DNC emails reveal the inner workings of the party’s finance operation,” by WashPost’s Matea Gold: “The DNC emails show how the party has tried to leverage its greatest weapon — the president — as it entices wealthy backers to bankroll the convention and other needs. At times, DNC staffers used language in their pitches to donors that went beyond what lawyers said was permissible under a White House policy designed to prevent any perception that special interests have access to the president. Top aides also get involved in wooing contributors ... White House political director David Simas, for instance, met in May with a half-dozen top party financiers in Chicago, including Fred Eychaner, one of the top Democratic donors in the country.” http://wapo.st/29YKNJ9
TOP TWEETS -- Michael McFaul (@McFaul): “As U.S. voter, I’m appalled by Russian meddling, want it investigated & stopped. As long-time analyst of Russia, I’m impressed; they’re good”... Steven Ginsberg (@stevenjay): “So one party is in turmoil because leaders wouldn’t get rid of its outsider candidate and the other one is in turmoil because they did?” … @michaelcshort: “For @DWStweets the dissonance between losing her job over email controversy while her party nominates @HillaryClinton must be deflating.” … Alex Burgos (@BurgosGOP): “Sign of the times that ‘lobbyist’ makes it onto the kids’ crossword puzzle at Capitol City Brewing Company: http://bit.ly/2ar2y8V
Debbie Wasserman Schultz just made a brief appearance on stage in the nearly empty arena #DNCinPHL pic.twitter.com/yYVLhAFDIR
— Karen Travers (@karentravers) July 25, 2016
CLICKER – “Hillary Clinton’s Debt to Feminism,” a newly updated graphic timeline from Bloomberg Graphics, shows how Clinton’s career tracks the advances of the women’s movement, culminating in her acceptance of the Democratic party’s nomination. http://bloom.bg/2apsjDQ
GLENN THRUSH podcast -- In this week’s “Off Message” podcast, Never Trump movement supporter Bill Kristol tells Glenn Thrush that in a pure foreign policy election he’d "probably swallow hard and vote for Hillary Clinton,” although he'd much prefer Tim Kaine at the top of the ticket. The Weekly Standard founder concedes the Stop Trump movement is over and says he pines for a “generic Democrat” to be POTUS. Listen http://apple.co/1KRm0m0 ... Story, “Kristol to Democrats: Don’t underestimate Trump” http://politi.co/2ak5z8s
EVENT ALERT: Tune in today at 5:30 p.m. for an intimate conversation about justice in America with Alicia Keys, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), California Senate candidate Kamala Harris and more, followed by a special performance by Alicia Keys. Livestream: www.POLITICO.com/liveand join the conversation using #POLITICOHub. This special event is made possible by the support of Bank of America.
MAYOR OF THE WORLD -- NYT A14, “Dismayed by Donald Trump, Michael Bloomberg Will Endorse Hillary Clinton,” by Alex Burns: “Michael R. Bloomberg, who bypassed his own run for the presidency this election cycle, will endorse Hillary Clinton in a prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention and make the case for Mrs. Clinton as the best choice for moderate voters in 2016 ... [Howard] Wolfson said the Clinton campaign had contacted Mr. Bloomberg several weeks ago to ask if he would be willing to address the convention. Mr. Bloomberg ... mulled over the idea and ultimately agreed to speak, after drafting a speech that reflected his distinctive set of political views rather than a boilerplate Democratic message.” http://nyti.ms/2a76mXD
-- “Why Michelle Obama has a prime spot at the Democratic National Convention,” by WashPost’s Krissah Thompson: “[S]he plans to talk about the role a president plays in the lives of the nation’s children, shaping their values and aspirations. She will also discuss why she thinks Clinton has the ‘character, temperament and experience’ to be president, and how Clinton’s career reflects ideals such as ‘opportunity, equality, inclusion.’ ... Organizers ... appreciate her unerring knack for making headlines — and capturing the attention of people who don’t otherwise follow the news cycle closely. Come Tuesday, there will be stories about everything from how warmly she spoke about Clinton to which fashion designer’s clothing she wore.” http://wapo.st/29YKLkj
MIA -- “Al Gore to skip Democratic convention,” by Darren Samuelsohn: “Gore remains one of the last Democratic Party luminaries not to make a formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton.” http://politi.co/2a9wAt7
PIC DU JOUR -- Tom Williams (@pennstatetom): “Flashback to #DNC2004 in Boston w/ old RCers @pkcapitol @emilykpierce @BresPolitico” http://bit.ly/2acyLQe
--Jacob Rascon (@Jacobnbc): “First protest march in Philadelphia far bigger than anything we saw all last week in Cleveland.” http://bit.ly/2a7gy22
ACELA READING -- “Wall Street takes a road trip to Philadelphia,” by Morning Money’s Ben White in NYC: “Wall Street is taking the Acela down to Philadelphia this week. Hordes of industry executives will descend on the city to celebrate Hillary Clinton’s nomination for president and renew close associations that vexed the Democratic standard-bearer throughout her primary battle with Bernie Sanders.” Execs from Goldman, Blackstone, Avenue Capital, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, JPMorganChase http://politi.co/2amPaRN
VIVA LA REVOLUCION! -- “Sanders Team Wanted DNC To Pay For Private Plane For Fall,” by BuzzFeed’s Evan McMorris-Santoro and Ruby Cramer: “The Bernie Sanders campaign considered demanding a private plane staffed and funded by the [DNC] as part of negotiations with Hillary Clinton heading into this week’s convention, according to a Sanders memo obtained by BuzzFeed News. The plane was to be used ‘for a series of fall rallies in battleground states,’ according to the ‘Bernie 2016’ memo, which was drafted in the days before Sanders’ sound defeat in the June 7 California primary.” http://bzfd.it/2actjgu
CORRECT THE RECORD has a new mini-documentary as part of its “Let’s Talk Hillary” project, featuring the stories of people who know Hillary Clinton and have worked with her over the years. http://bit.ly/29YPORC
--Also launching: the Barrier Breakers website, an online home for Hillary supporters, where they can find positive articles, pictures, and videos about Clinton written by and for her online fans. www.barrierbreakers2016.com
MOOD MUSIC – “How Donald Trump Broke The Conservative Movement (And My Heart),” by BuzzFeed’s Katherine Miller: “This is the end of the conservative movement. Trump is the grinning skeleton in the crowd; what he reveals about other people is the most important thing about him. And what he has revealed is how conservatism isn’t sacrosanct, how precarious ideology is, how little people need to accept something in the name of partisanship. ‘That’s when I know it’s over,’ Junot Diaz writes in a story about a breakup. ‘As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it’s the end.’” http://bzfd.it/29ZO77A
STATE OF THE ART -- NYT A12, “Live Videos, Small Screens: Campaigns Hope Voters Like What They See,” by Mike Shear and Nick Corasaniti: “The credentialed journalists and political pundits [in Philly] ... will be joined by a team of campaign correspondents who will broadcast behind-the-scenes video over social media, interviewing party luminaries and convention delegates for a show called ‘DNC Live.’ The show, which will be available on smartphones and tablets without interruption, will also feature celebrity guest commentators analyzing Hillary Clinton’s speech. Though it may resemble standard political fare, the new media start-up responsible for the program — Studio 2016 — is an in-house production unit run by the Clinton campaign and the [DNC].” http://nyti.ms/2ak4AFb
DEEP DIVE -- NY Mag Cover Story, “The Case Against The Media. By the Media,” posted at 9 p.m. last night: “What keeps media people up at night when they’re thinking about what they do for a living? We began by asking ourselves and our peers what they think the media’s greatest faults are. ... In interviews with more than 40 journalists and media figures and in a survey of 113 of our peers, we heard much about deals cut with anonymous sources, the pressure for speed and easy hits that squeezes the nuance out of complicated stories, editors who knowingly simplified stories past the point of accuracy and publishers who spent resources on subjects they believed were trivial rather than those they felt were important. At times, the survey’s answers read like the minutes from an anonymous group-therapy session.” With cameos by Ben Smith, Bob Woodward, Sabrina Siddiqui, Michael Hirsch, Kurt Bardella, Dean Baquet http://nym.ag/2ab9hlu … See the cover. http://nym.ag/2amN6cL
--GREAT ADVICE from BEN SMITH: “So the calculation for you is pretty much always ‘How is this going to affect me in the long run? Am I going to burn a source?’ That sort of thing? No, the calculation mostly is ‘Is this news?’ I think there’s a very high bar for not writing something that is news. To me, once you have a piece of information, it becomes ‘Is there some reason that I shouldn’t write this?’ And that’s a pretty rare thing. Do you feel like you have less inherent uneasiness about that kind of thing than some reporters? Some are easily intimidated, some tend be more queasy or want to please people. If you want to please people, you’re in the wrong line of work.” http://nym.ag/2adkvqy
VALLEY TALK -- @davidshepardson: “Marissa Mayer will walk away from @Yahoo after receiving $218 million in compensation, severance during her tenure” http://bit.ly/2anYQxn
PSA: THE TODAY SHOW is broadcasting from Independence Hall on 5th and Market streets this week … “Morning Joe” is live in Philly … And, well, CNN is live, all day every day.
HAPPENING IN PHILLY TONIGHT: “One Hell of a Night with Joe Walsh and friends” with DISCUS at the World Cafe Live … NewDems Center Stage Celebration at the Continental Midtown … Late night with the DGA at Independence Beer Garden … RIAA Musicians on Call party with Demi Lovato … Morning Consult is throwing a happy hour at the convention with Sen. Durbin, Reps. Clyburn and Hoyer and a host of big city mayors. http://bit.ly/2ak5iCr … HeadCount Convention Jam, featuring Dawes and Grace Potter at the Electric Factory, sponsored by The Recording Academy and Billboard.
SPOTTED: Lester Holt, wandering Walnut Street near Rittenhouse Square … At a pre-convention “supper” at Davios in Philly: HRC pollster John Anzalone, DCCC honcho Kelly Ward, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, AP’s Julie Pace, Julie Bykowicz, Kathleen Hennessy, Catherine Lucey, Square Communications’ Michael Meehan and Tovah Ravitz Meehan ... Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn at Rep. Bob Brady’s Taste of Philly event ... Wolf Blitzer at Amis, an Italian joint on 13th Street ...
… Robert Draper in the cafe car on Sunday’s 2:55 p.m. Acela from D.C. to Philly … David Axelrod and Joel Benenson, Sen. Bill Nelson, Locust Street Group’s David Barnhart (at separate tables) at Barclay Prime … Labor Secretary Tom Perez today at the Takoma Park farmers market talking with his wife. “Wore a salmon pink shirt and was really dressed down. Probably deserves it after that whole veepstakes thing!” ... Georgia Rep. John Lewis in the first row of the 4:20pm Delta flight from ATL to DCA. … Mayor Muriel Bowser, Kamran Mumtaz, Candi Wolff, Brad Bosserman, and Tommy McFly at the Citi Open tennis tournament this weekend in D.C.
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JASON O’MALLEY FETED: Several politicos celebrated Jason O’Malley, CFO of the Philly Host Committee, last night at Philadelphia Prime Rib. Lyndon Boozer was the host and organizer, and Erik Huey, Quincy Enoch, Guarav Parikh, Gerry Harrington and Taylor Beis were the co-hosts. O’Malley thanked DWS (who was present) “for believing in me from day one, giving me my start and always having faith against the odds.”Pic http://bit.ly/2a9Z6ec
SPOTTED: Rep. Jim Clyburn, Philly boxing legend and national renowned prize fighter Bernard “The Alien” Hopkins, former Texas Lieutenant Gov. Ben Barnes, Maryland Del. Brook Lierman, HRC bundler David Jones, former Harry Reid Finance Director Jake Perry, Tracie Pough, Peter O’Keefe, GM’s Dan Turton, Microsoft’s Matt Gelman, Mike Hutton, Fidelity’s Andy Vermilye, John Arundel, Joe Maloney, Peter Jacoby, Yebbie Watkins, Joyce Brayboy, Marcus Mason, Anil Kakani, Carter Jordan, Vin Roberti and Jesse Price.
LISSA MUSCATINE, speechwriter for Secretary Clinton, who also collaborated on Hillary Clinton’s White House memoir and co-owner of Politics & Prose, “discusses writing Hillary Clinton’s most notable speeches and what goes into owning one of the most well-known independent bookstores in the nation” -- all with David Helfenbein on this week’s episode of The Gaggle. www.thegagglepodcast.com or on iTunes http://apple.co/1V55rvc
THE ROOTS -- Bully Pulpit Interactive and Pandora are hosting a late night concert featuring the Roots Wednesday at the Trocadero Theater. Watch for Philly-themed snacks like artisanal pretzels, Philly cheese steaks, local beer, an apple pie wall and a popsicle station. On Tuesday, Bully Pulpit Interactive will also host a breakfast panel with PoliTemps featuring Chris Jones, BPI’s Ann Marie Habershaw, HFA’s Bernard Coleman, HFA’s Nathaniel Koloc and Senate Democratic Diversity Initiative’s Maria Meier to talk about “Talent Management in the Political World” at Talula’s Garden.
--“BuzzFeed’s all-star podcast team is heading to Philly on Monday ... for ‘Historical Event’, a night of irreverent humor and insightful interviews, complete with music by Jean Grae and other special guests, including Rep. Joaquin Castro.” RSVP http://bit.ly/2anLqkI
--Chris Lehane and David Plouffe are holding a briefing tomorrow in Philly at 9 a.m. at the American Institute of Architects at 1218 Arch Street. They’re releasing a poll on swing-state millennials and their views on the sharing economy and 2016. “72% of millennials (18 to 35 years old) who live in swing states ... view the sharing economy favorably.”
WASHINGTON, INC. -- “Van Jones and Molly Haigh Launch New Social Justice PR Firm: Megaphone Strategies”: “Jones is the founder of the Dream Corps and many other social purpose enterprises. Haigh is a former Fitzgibbon Media Senior Director.” http://bit.ly/2ak3FF2 ... www.megaphonestrategies.com
NEW JOE POUNDER project -- “Today, Joe Pounder, Fran Brennan, Jeff Bechdel, and Andrew Lautz launched Need to Know (NTK) Network, a news-aggregating platform focused on covering stories principally in politics, finance, and policy, using a unique process to bring everything you Need to Know together quickly and concisely.” http://ntknetwork.com
ENGAGED – Andrew Burk, VP of digital at FP1 Strategies and a CRAFT and Freedom Partners alum, recently proposed to Cassie Ditto, a summer program specialist at Fairfax County Public Schools: “We’ve been dating for over 4 years, actually met each other at a bar in Clarendon (Whitlows). I just bought a house a year ago and I proposed in our backyard.” Pics http://bit.ly/29YLrGy … http://bit.ly/2acxIQt
WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Trump campaign COO Eli Miller, a Rubio, Boehner, and AFP alum, and his wife Jenna, a teacher at Beauvoir, the NCS/St. Albans pre k-3 school, welcomed Henry Francis Miller Sunday afternoon. Mom and baby doing great. Pic http://bit.ly/2acpPdR
BIRTHWEEK (was yesterday): AP’s Kathleen Hennessey … Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) is 43
BIRTHDAYS: Amy Holmes ... Eve Kady is 10 (h/t Mom and Dad, Suz Redfearn and Marty) ... former World Bank president Robert Zoellick, nowa senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy, is 75 ... Grant Allen (h/t Deckard) ... Katie Martin, comms director of NRCC and the pride of Warren, Mich. ... “Capital Tonight” host Liz Benjamin (h/ts Josh and Tom) ... Mike Nizza, executive editor of Bloomberg Politics, is 38 ... Arit John, who has been covering Sanders for Bloomberg Politics (h/t Ellie Titus) ... Judy Keen, USA Today alum now nation/world editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune … Erin Seidler, VP of the healthcare practice at FleishmanHillard and former senior advisor at HHS and Iowa for Obama comms. director ... Andrew Feldman of Feldman Strategies ... Jake Maguire, comms director for the 100,000 Homes Campaign, helping to eradicate homelessness … Alex Nguyen, comms director for Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) ... Rebecca Gale, Roll Call alum now press secretary for Commerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration ...
... WAMC president and CEO Alan Chartock, who celebrated with a party this weekend, is 75 (h/t Rex Smith) ... Politico alum Caroline Black, now sr. sales consultant at Wrapify … Domenic Recchia ... Kirsten Mork, deputy staff director at House Financial Services Cmte. … TTR Sotheby’s David DeSantis … CNN alum Alison Harding … Anita Siegfried ... Beneva Schulte, director of public affairs at Commerce and senior advisor to the secretary ... Tyler J. Wade ... Laura Elizabeth Donovan, ATTN staff writer ... radio talk show host John Gibson is 7-0 ... Corey Vale, digital director at BASK Digital Media and Gingrich alum ... Tony Welch … Holly Armstrong ... Sarah Benzing ... Susan Goodwin ... Jesse Harris (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) ... actress Barbara Harris is 81 … cartoonist Ray Billingsley (“Curtis”) is 59 … Celebrity chef/TV personality Geoffrey Zakarian is 57 ... Matt LeBlanc is 49 … actor Pierce Gagnon is 11 (h/ts AP)