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2016, Ready for Hillary, will form a New Hampshire political action committee, which allows it to raise and spend money for local candidates.” *BuzzFeed: “Martin O’Malley Courts Hollywood” <http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/martin-omalley-courts-hollywood?utm_term=2qrxcad#2wwn3q7>* “Most of the people O’Malley’s met in Los Angeles have something in common: They supported Obama over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary.” *Des Moines Register: “Hillary Clinton will be back in Iowa for 2014 candidates” <http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/03/hillary-clinton-coming-back-to-iowa/16644943/>* “Potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be back in Iowa this fall to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley and U.S House candidate Staci Appel, according to a news report this morning.” *WMUR: "Hillary Clinton plans to campaign in NH with Shaheen, Hassan" <http://www.wmur.com/political-scoop/hillary-clinton-plans-to-campaign-in-nh-with-shaheen-hassan/28388288>* “A source with knowledge of the event says it is taking place on Nov. 2. *Atlanta Journal Constitution blog: Political Insider: “Hillary Clinton to campaign for Michelle Nunn” <http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/10/03/hillary-clinton-to-campaign-for-michelle-nunn/>* “There are no details yet on when Hillary Clinton is coming to town.” *Time: “Biden Takes Veiled Shot at Clinton, Panetta Over ‘Inappropriate’ Books” <http://time.com/3461439/biden-panetta-clinton-clash-over-isis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+(TIME%3A+Top+Stories)>* “The vice president continued that it was ‘inappropriate’ for former administration officials to write books while Obama is still in office.” *Orlando Sentinel: “Elizabeth Warren, Ben Affleck visit Bill Maher” <http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/tv-guy/os-elizabeth-warren-ben-affleck-visit-bill-maher-20140930-post.html>* “Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will be the top-of-show interview guest.” *Articles:* *Politico: “Hillary Clinton plans midterm blitz” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/hillary-clinton-2014-midterm-schedule-111585.html>* By Maggie Haberman October 3, 2014 10:24 a.m. EDT Hillary Clinton has mapped out much of her political schedule through Election Day, an itinerary that focuses on helping Senate candidates and includes trips to a half-dozen states, including Kentucky and presidential early states Iowa and New Hampshire, according to details obtained by POLITICO. The plan, which could see adjustments and additions as races hit critical points in the coming weeks, was the product of close work between Clinton chief-of-staff Human Abedin and the Democratic campaign committees. The final stretch of the midterms will mark Clinton’s most extensive political activity since she left the State Department early last year and requests for her to appear began pouring in from all corners of the country. A major goal has been to navigate the former secretary of State’s concerns about spending time with her daughter and newborn granddaughter Charlotte, other commitments she’s made like book signings and some political commitments put in place weeks ago, along with her desire to help candidates facing tough races this fall, people close to her said. Her primary concern is the Senate, where she served for eight years and where she wants to help her colleagues retain the majority. To that end, she’s added another fundraiser to her list to help the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, hosted by movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, in California on Oct. 20. But she also wants to focus surgically on targets where she can be as helpful as possible, meaning races where committee data and polling has shown she is a maximum draw, her aides said. Abedin has worked closely with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee executive director Guy Cecil, who worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, over many months to determine where Clinton would be most effective. She is also giving attention to certain races that are personally important to her. One the Kentucky Senate contest, where Democrat Allison Lundergan Grimes is trying to unseat Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Clintons are longtime friends with the candidate’s father, Jerry Lundergan, and it’s a signature race involving a woman running statewide. “Secretary Clinton will be a great motivator to get Democrats out to the polls which is always critical in a midterm election,” Cecil said. “She is also the perfect person to speak directly to women and independent voters across the country about what is at stake, from women’s health to giving everyone a fair shot at success.” Clinton will return to Iowa to help Democratic Senate hopeful Bruce Braley and congressional candidate Stacie Appel, who is vying to be the first woman House member from the state. She will also seek to help incumbent Democratic Sens. Kay Hagan in North Carolina and Mark Udall in Colorado and Michelle Nunn in Georgia. And she’ll travel to New Hampshire for an event for the all-women statewide ticket featuring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a longtime friend, and Gov. Maggie Hassan. Instead of heading to Arkansas, where Bill Clinton is heading next week to help their longtime friend Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor and where her efforts could be redundant, she currently has no plans to head there, but will host a fundraiser for Pryor in New York City next week. “Hillary knows firsthand the importance of keeping our majority in the Senate and I couldn’t be happier that she is helping us turn out the Democratic vote,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a statement. Clinton has several stops planned for Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls. In addition to helping Hassan, she will host her first public fundraiser next week in Philadelphia for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tom Wolf, a “Women for Wolf” event, aides said. Clinton is slated to help Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn next week, and she plans to go to Massachusetts to help Martha Coakley, who’s locked in a close for governor against Republican Charlie Baker. Clinton hosted a fundraiser for Florida gubernatorial hopeful Charlie Crist this week in Florida. Clinton aides said she’s hitting top Democratic Governors Association priorities, as well as helping other gubernatorial candidates if she is in their states for other events. There’s also another tier of people who Clinton plans to help, such as Rep. Nita Lowey, her congresswoman in her Westchester district and a longtime ally who opted against a Senate run of her own to clear the field when Clinton was first looking at running for the open seat in New York in 2000. Clinton aides started preliminary discussions in early 2013 with the national campaign committees, making clear she planned to help in the midterms. Abedin spoke frequently with committee operatives about the state of various races and how Clinton could help. There were also constant discussions between Hillary Clinton’s aides and Bill Clinton’s team, and with aides in the White House, with whom Clinton’s team have worked in lockstep on the politics of the midterms, her aides said. When Clinton’s daughter Chelsea revealed her pregnancy to her family earlier this year, it created an unknown for the fall and for her mother’s schedule. But Clinton’s aides tried to bolster all four national committees by hosting fundraisers, in some cases more than one event for a committee, in the past few weeks. The campaign committees and the candidates themselves have been understanding about the demands on Clinton’s schedule, her aides said. For instance, retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, a friend of the former secretary of State, first asked Clinton aides if she would attend his final annual steak fry this year back in April. Knowing her granddaughter was due that month, she didn’t immediately commit. But he called Abedin back again over the summer, delivering a clear message, people familiar with the discussion said: “I need her here. She can bring her husband if she wants.” Clinton has done events to help a number of candidates, such as Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.), who is in a tight race, and a string of other House members in New York and New Jersey. She will hold a major women-focused fundraiser with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in California this month, on the same day as the Katzenberg event. “Hillary Clinton’s message and presence at our events and on our behalf have lifted our efforts to a whole new level — adding new luster to our campaign,” said Pelosi in a statement. “And the fact that she has joined us as a new grandmother makes it joyful, indeed.” The Katzenberg fundraiser comes as the longtime Obama supporter has moved to galvanize Hollywood donors behind Hillary Clinton if she runs for president in 2016. He was the major funder of the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action in the 2012 cycle. The group has since morphed into a pro-Clinton effort. *WMUR (New Hampshire): “Ready for Hillary to file NH PAC” <http://www.wmur.com/political-scoop/ready-for-hillary-to-file-nh-pac/28386770>* By James Pindell October 3, 2014, 9:41 a.m. EDT The national group encouraging former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016, Ready for Hillary, will form a New Hampshire political action committee, which allows it to raise and spend money for local candidates. A number of potential presidential candidates do this same step for the same purpose in other to comply with the law. The organization contributed the maximum of $10,000 to the state Democratic Party earlier this year. A source familiar with the move said the paperwork should be filed at the state house within a few days. This comes after the group sent out two emails to its full New Hampshire list of supporters encouraging them to buy tickets to the upcoming fundraiser for the state Democratic Party where former President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote address. The emails were sent from House Speaker Terie Norelli and Senate Democratic Leader Sylvia Larsen. *BuzzFeed: “Martin O’Malley Courts Hollywood” <http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/martin-omalley-courts-hollywood?utm_term=2qrxcad#2wwn3q7>* By Ruby Cramer October 3, 2014, 11:00 a.m. EDT [Subtitle:] The Maryland governor keeps spending time in California with donors and fundraisers who have something in common: They supported Obama over Clinton. On a Monday in early June, a few dozen Maryland natives sat down in the executive dining room at the Sony Pictures Studios lot for a hometown meal, catered by CJ’s Restaurants, one of Baltimore County’s classic crabhouses. The lunch spread, flown over the weekend into Culver City, Calif., was what a Marylander might simply describe as “correct”: pan-fried crab cakes, crab soup, coleslaw, soft-shell crabs, corn, and Utz potato chips coated in Old Bay. The group of more than 40 people, mostly producers and executives who left Maryland years ago for careers in Hollywood, came to meet a new face on the political scene in Los Angeles: the governor of their home state, Martin O’Malley. The Maryland-themed gathering wasn’t about fundraising. It was a chance for the little-known governor, who is putting together the framework for a possible presidential campaign, to get face time with the Hollywood political set. The meet-and-greet was put together by Steve Mosko, the president of Sony Pictures Television, and Tom Rothman, the former chairman at 20th Century Fox, and a donor and fundraiser for President Obama’s campaigns. O’Malley has raised money in California with some regularity during his two terms as governor, and as chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, but in the last year, he has stepped up his efforts to court Hollywood’s potential donors. Most of the people O’Malley’s met in Los Angeles have something in common: They supported Obama over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary. In the West Coast cradle of established Democratic politics — where the Clintons already have a swelling set of donors, fundraisers, and consiglieres — O’Malley offers a fresh face and a penetrable political network to those not already aligned with Clinton. The June event is one of four meet-and-greets with Los Angeles political players that O’Malley’s had since the summer of 2013, an aide confirmed. This year, he’s made four trips to the state for private meetings, fundraisers, and public appearances, including his keynote address to the state convention this spring. Still, the idea that O’Malley could match Clinton’s fundraising machine in Los Angeles is nowhere near likely. A review of the most recent filings available for O’PAC’s federal and non-federal campaign committees shows that O’Malley has raised about $106,000 from California donors so far this cycle. That’s about 4% of his total fundraising in the same period. The majority is Maryland money. Last Sunday, O’Malley stopped over in Los Angeles for a fundraiser benefiting his political action committee, O’Say Can You See PAC, or “O’PAC,” which the governor uses to fund his travel and pay a small handful of political aides. People involved in the fundraiser, which took place at a high-priced Italian restaurant on Melrose Ave., said they would consider supporting the governor in a presidential race. But none said they had committed to his potential campaign. The event, where tickets started at $1,000 per person, was hosted by a cadre of Obama people, including Eric Paquette, a Sony Pictures senior vice president who first supported Obama in 2006; Jon Vein, the MarketShare CEO who served on Obama’s finance committee during both elections; Yolanda “Cookie” Parker, the founder of KMS Software and a prominent Obama “bundler,” or fundraiser; and Dixon Slingerland, the executive director of the Youth Policy Institute who reportedly raised just under $1 million for the president’s two campaigns. (The co-hosts of the fundraiser last Sunday have something else in common besides Obama. They supported Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who beat out Bill Clinton’s pick for the job, Wendy Greuel, during a competitive, highly funded race last year. With Obama’s early supporters backing Garcetti and Clinton’s backing Greuel, the race was like a small-scale sequel to the 2008 primary.) More than one Los Angeles Democrat described Slingerland as “all in” for O’Malley. The Youth Policy Institute head did not respond to requests for an interview for this article. Slingerland also hosted one of the governor’s four meet-and-greets with donors, this one last March at the California Club. People who planned the Sunday night gathering said the focus of the fundraiser wasn’t the presidential race. Most of the donors and fundraisers said they wanted to help O’Malley get to know more people in Los Angeles, and help finance his travels on behalf of other Democratic candidates ahead of the midterm races this fall. (He has gone to at least 19 states since the start of last year, and his aides have said he’ll be on the road just about every weekend until Election Day.) “I support him in his efforts supporting other candidates,” said Vein, the MarketShare CEO and one of the event’s co-hosts. Vein said he heard a “very broad range” of responses from people as he organized the event. “Everything from, ‘Who?’ up to, ‘That guy is awesome’ and people talking about 2016.” Another co-host, Moctesuma Esperanza, a producer and the CEO of Maya Cinemas, said, “He’s still not really well-known, and I think that his strategy to come out to participate in meet-and-greets has been excellent.” Esperanza, who supported former governor Bill Richardson in the last Democratic primary, said he would be “very disposed” to support O’Malley in a national race, citing his work at the state level on immigration policy and his public scuffle with White House officials this summer over the administration’s response to the thousands of immigrant minors who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. “I think a lot of people here are waiting to see what else is out there,” he said. *Des Moines Register: “Hillary Clinton will be back in Iowa for 2014 candidates” <http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/03/hillary-clinton-coming-back-to-iowa/16644943/>* By Jennifer Jacobs October 3, 2014, 11:19 a.m. CDT Potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be back in Iowa this fall to campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley and U.S House candidate Staci Appel, according to a news report this morning. Clinton has plotted out a campaign schedule that will send her to Iowa, New Hampshire, Kentucky, North Carolina, Colorado and Georgia, Politico reports. Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state, made a splashy debut in Iowa last month, returning on Sept. 14 for her first visit here since a disappointing finish in the presidential caucuses nearly seven years ago. In a speech at the Harkin Steak Fry, a fundraiser for 30-year U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, Clinton said a bid for the White House in 2016 is a possibility. Well. It is true. I am thinking about it," said Clinton, who accepted the position of secretary of state in President Barack Obama's cabinet after he defeated her in the 2008 presidential campaign. She told reporters in Iowa that she wouldn't decide on whether to run until after her daughter, Chelsea, gave birth this fall. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, told reporters he's "checking on it every couple of hours" now. The Clinton's first grandchild, Charlotte, was born on Sept. 26. *WMUR: Hillary Clinton plans to campaign in NH with Shaheen, Hassan <http://www.wmur.com/political-scoop/hillary-clinton-plans-to-campaign-in-nh-with-shaheen-hassan/28388288>* [No author mentioned] October 3, 2014 11:47 a.m. EDT MANCHESTER, N.H. —New Hampshire Democratic sources confirm a report out of Washington that a rally with Hillary Clinton is in the works to take place in the state sometime this month. Politico reported Friday morning a full list of places where Clinton was headed off to campaign in before the midterm elections, and one of them was a stop in New Hampshire to campaign with U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie Hassan, both are Democrats running for re-election. A source with knowledge of the event says it is taking place on Nov. 2. *Atlanta Journal Constitution blog: Political Insider: “Hillary Clinton to campaign for Michelle Nunn” <http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/10/03/hillary-clinton-to-campaign-for-michelle-nunn/>* By Daniel Malloy October 3, 2014, 10:52 a.m. EDT Politico’s Maggie Haberman has the scoop on presidential candidate-in-waiting Hillary Clinton’s fall campaign schedule, which includes a trip to Georgia on behalf of Democrat Michelle Nunn. In recent weeks, Nunn has brought in former President Bill Clinton for a fundraiser and First Lady Michelle Obama for a rally and fundraiser. There are no details yet on when Hillary Clinton is coming to town. Per Politico, Clinton will also support Democratic candidates in the key presidential states of Iowa and New Hampshire, as well as Kentucky, North Carolina, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Illinois, California and New York. Some more background on the calculations: “A major goal has been to navigate the former secretary of State’s concerns about spending time with her daughter and newborn granddaughter Charlotte, other commitments she’s made like book signings and some political commitments put in place weeks ago, along with her desire to help candidates facing tough races this fall, people close to her said. “Her primary concern is the Senate, where she served for eight years and where she wants to help her colleagues retain the majority. To that end, she’s added another fundraiser to her list to help the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, hosted by movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, in California on Oct. 20. “But she also wants to focus surgically on targets where she can be as helpful as possible, meaning races where committee data and polling has shown she is a maximum draw, her aides said. Abedin has worked closely with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee executive director Guy Cecil, who worked on Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, over many months to determine where Clinton would be most effective.” *Time: “Biden Takes Veiled Shot at Clinton, Panetta Over ‘Inappropriate’ Books” <http://time.com/3461439/biden-panetta-clinton-clash-over-isis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+(TIME%3A+Top+Stories)>* By Zeke J. Miller October 3, 2014, 1:07 p.m. EDT [Subtitle:] High-level White House debates over Iraq and Syria are coming to light as top officials air their differences Vice President Joe Biden blasted former members of President Barack Obama’s administration who have gone on to write “inappropriate” books about the White House. Speaking to Harvard students in a question-and-answer session Thursday, Biden was asked whether he believes the U.S. should have acted earlier in Syria, a critique leveled by former Secretary of State and likely Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, as well as former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in recent memoirs. “The answer is no for two reasons,” Biden said. “One, the idea of identifying a moderate middle has been a chase America has been engaged in for a long time. We Americans think in every country in transition there’s a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock, or a James Madison beyond one sand dune. The fact of the matter is, the ability to identify a moderate middle in Syria was—there was no moderate middle, because the moderate middle are made up of shopkeepers, not soldiers; they’re made up of people who, in fact, have—ordinary elements of the middle class of that country.” The vice president continued that it was “inappropriate” for former administration officials to write books while Obama is still in office. “And what happened was—and their history will record this, because I’m finding that former administration officials, as soon as they leave write books, which I think is inappropriate. But any rate,” Biden said as the audience chuckled. “No, I’m serious. I do think it’s inappropriate. At least give the guy a chance to get out of office.” Clinton’s book Hard Choices includes details of internal deliberations where she unsuccessfully pressed President Barack Obama to arm Syrian rebels in 2012, one of the only clear denunciations she makes of the president in the book. “The risks of both action and inaction were high,” Clinton wrote. “Both choices would bring unintended consequences. The President’s inclination was to stay the present course and not take the significant further step of arming rebels.” In Panetta’s forthcoming memoir, Worthy Fights, excerpted in this week’s TIME, the former Pentagon chief takes issue with Obama’s handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and the subsequent rise of ISIS in Syria. “To this day, I believe that a small U.S. troop presence in Iraq could have effectively advised the Iraqi military on how to deal with al-Qaeda’s resurgence and the sectarian violence that has engulfed the country,” Panetta writes. Left unsaid by the vice president, is that he often argued for caution against intervention in the debates highlighted by Panetta and Clinton, according to current and former officials’ accounts. *Orlando Sentinel: “Elizabeth Warren, Ben Affleck visit Bill Maher” <http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/tv-guy/os-elizabeth-warren-ben-affleck-visit-bill-maher-20140930-post.html>* By Hal Boedeker September 30, 2014, 4:24 p.m. EDT Ben Affleck has "Gone Girl" to promote, and he is even visiting "Real Time With Bill Maher" this week. Affleck will be on the roundtable panel with columnist Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times and Michael Steele, former chairman of the Republican National Committee. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will be the top-of-show interview guest. Neuroscientist Sam Harris will be the mid-show interview guest. "Real Time" continues its 12th season with a live telecast at 10 a.m. Friday on HBO. A repeat follows immediately at 11 p.m. "Gone Girl," one of the most anticipated movies this year, opens Friday.