Greetings from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where all of your Tim Kaine hot takes have literally driven temperatures into the high 90s (good job!). Debbie Wasserman Schultz was booed off the stage at a Florida delegation event, though we’re pretty sure the crowd was just saying,”Boooooooooo-y it’s sure a scorcher outside!” And Bernie Sanders texted his supporters, urging them not to protest tonight, though most of his supporters likely replied, “newly radicalized, who dis.” This is HUFFPOST HILL for Monday, July 25th, 2016:
Sanders supporters have zero chill: “Some audience members booed and chanted Bernie Sanders’s name when Hillary Clinton was mentioned during the opening invocation at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia July 25.” [WaPo]
IT’S LEFTY NIGHT AT THE DNC - The next three nights will more or less be dedicated to making sure Lloyd Blankfein’s remains as happy as when GS beats earnings by a few bips. Amanda Terkel: “Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is this year’s keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, with a high-profile spot in front of a national audience going to one of the party’s top progressive voices. Warren is slated to take the stage Monday night, where the theme will be putting families first and highlighting Hillary Clinton’s lifelong work, according to a Clinton campaign official. The other speakers, beginning in the 9 p.m. hour, will include Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), first lady Michelle Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Warren is just the third woman to deliver the keynote address at a Democratic convention. Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) first had that honor in 1976, and Ann Richards, when she was Texas state treasurer, had it in 1988.” [HuffPost]
SANDERS TELLS HIPPIES TO COOL IT - Keep down the damn racket. Liz Goodwin: “Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a text message to the leaders of his delegation pleading with them not to protest on the Democratic convention floor Monday night. ‘I ask you as a personal courtesy to me to not engage in any kind of protest on the floor,’ he wrote in the text message to his delegate whips. ‘Its of utmost importance you explain this to your delegations.’ He signed the text, ‘Bernie.’ Sanders was loudly booed Monday afternoon by hundreds of his fans when he told his delegates to back Hillary Clinton and her running mate Sen. Tim Kaine in a meeting at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Sanders is scheduled at the end of the night, after Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and make a plea for party unity.” [Yahoo News]
DNC HACK REVEALS HUFFPOST HILL READERSHIP, DISLIKE - The document dump includes a few emails in which comms staffers responded to a May edition of the newsletter headlined “Democrats Get Back To Basics By Failing Easy Task” which also mocked White House speechwriter bro Ben Rhodes for Obama’s super lame “this is not a reality show” jab. This was during the “Dangerous Donald” days. “This is the job, some days reporters will report it straight, some days they’ll get snarky. No one panicked when it was reported our way a couple of days ago. No worries, we’re good. Ben Rhodes will sleep calmly tonight unfazed by the bullshit in HUFFPOST HILL.” We are certain this is true. [WikiLeaks]
DELANEY DOWNER - Washington, D.C. was the hottest city in the U.S. today partly because nighttime has been canceled.
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JAN SCHAKOWSKY TRIUMPHS OVER POKEMON - The congresswoman had asked Pokemon to please stop putting little Pokemon monsters in the Holocaust Museum. “I am very pleased that both the Pokémon Company and Niantic share my views and have removed the Holocaust Museum and similar locations from the Pokémon Go game,” she wrote.
DWS BACKS OFF, WON’T OPEN CONVENTION - Besides, if we were her, we’d just pull a “Half Baked” and leave the stage. Ian Swanson and Ben Kamisar: “Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will not open the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Wasserman Schultz told the Sun Sentinel that she had abandoned plans to do so to ensure that the convention opens without controversy. ‘I have decided that, in the interest of making sure that we can start the Democratic convention on a high note, that I am not going to gavel in the convention,’ she said..She also told the newspaper that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the party’s secretary, will gavel the convention into order in her place.” [The Hill]
Earlier: “Outgoing Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was booed and jeered at a pre-convention delegation breakfast this morning in Philadelphia, a day after she announced she would resign from the post after the leak of embarrassing party emails. Amid ugly scenes, an event organizer repeatedly tried to quiet the crowd, but the boos continued as Wasserman Schultz began speaking. ‘Shame on you!’ screamed some.” [ABC News]
DNC sends apology, is very sorry: ““On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic Party for the inexcusable remarks made over email. These comments do not reflect the values of the DNC or our steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process. The DNC does not ― and will not ― tolerate disrespectful language exhibited toward our candidates. Individual staffers have also rightfully apologized for their comments, and the DNC is taking appropriate action to ensure it never happens again.”
PARTY OF THE PEOPLE DRAWS THE REALEST OF PEOPLE - Shout out to all the working men and women toiling away in Goldman’s DC affairs office. Ben White: “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. Goldman Sachs, which paid Clinton millions for private speeches, will be well represented in Philadelphia with executives Jake Siewert, a former Bill Clinton press secretary, making the trip along with Steven Barg, Michael Paese, Joyce Brayboy and Jennifer Scully, who was a major fundraiser for Bill Clinton in New York in 1992...The financial contingent will be in an especially good mood following Clinton’s selection of Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate. Kaine has shown a willingness to fight for regional bank relief from the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. But more than that, he’s not Elizabeth Warren, the potential VP pick that long had Wall Street terrified.” [Politico]
Game changer: “Former Vice President Al Gore (D) endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Monday. The climate change activist was one of few high-profile Democrats who had not backed the former secretary of state ― and his silence was particularly notable given that Gore was vice president to Clinton’s husband, President Bill Clinton.” [HuffPost]
IN SOVIET RUSSIA, GOVERNMENT HACKS YOU! - And by “you,” we mean a bunch of comms staffers at the DNC who are now worried their Ogilvy job applications are in danger. David Sanger and Nicole Perlroth: “But researchers have concluded that the national committee 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. Though a hacker claimed responsibility for giving the emails to WikiLeaks, the same agencies are the prime suspects. Whether the thefts were ordered by Mr. Putin, or just carried out by apparatchiks who thought they might please him, is anyone’s guess.” [NYT]
CLASSIC PAUL MANAFORT - This is how pros counter oppo efforts. Michael Isikoff: “Just weeks after she started preparing opposition research files on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort last spring, Democratic National Committee consultant Alexandra Chalupa got an alarming message when she logged into her personal Yahoo email account. ‘Important action required,’ read a pop-up box from a Yahoo security team that is informally known as ‘the Paranoids.’ ‘We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors.’ Chalupa — who had been drafting memos and writing emails about Manafort’s connection to pro-Russian political leaders in Ukraine — quickly alerted top DNC officials. ‘Since I started digging into Manafort, these messages have been a daily occurrence on my Yahoo account despite changing my password often,’ she wrote in a May 3 email to Luis Miranda, the DNC’s communications director, which included an attached screengrab of the image of the Yahoo security warning.” [Yahoo]
DANGEROUS DONALD TO GET INTEL BRIEFINGS - Ryan Grim and Nick Baumann: Trump’s deep relationship with Russia has the intelligence community worried. ‘Never have we had a candidate so tied to a foreign power, especially one that is so hostile to the U.S. in many ways, and one that is actively messing with our election,’ said one former senior intelligence official. ‘Many [in the intelligence community] don’t care about U.S. politics and pride themselves on being nonpartisan, but the ties to Russia are deeply disturbing.’” [HuffPost]
GOP VOTERS JUST PLAIN ANGRY - Matt Fuller: “You might think Republican delegates would be highly engaged citizens ready to detail their complaints about Congress ― if they had complaints at all. But while most of the more than two dozen delegates who spoke to The Huffington Post said they had negative feelings about congressional Republicans, they couldn’t really explain them, beyond chastising GOP lawmakers for being out of touch with voters and not pushing back hard enough against Democrats and President Barack Obama. ‘The Republican Party, by and large, you know, the leadership, what they call ‘the elites,’ they do not care about the average voter,’ Illinois delegate James Devors told HuffPost last week...In a new Morning Consult poll, 23 percent of Republican voters say leaders in their party do not care about people like them, and 46 percent of respondents said their party has “pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.’” [HuffPost]
BECAUSE YOU’VE READ THIS FAR - Here’s a baby rhino.
STAY SAFE OUT THERE, BRANDS - It’s not 9/11 memorial muffins bad, but it’s not great. Marc Fortier: “Legal Sea Foods founder Roger Berkowitz is taking some heat for a Hillary Clinton-themed ad that appeared in the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald on Monday. The full-page ad features a large picture of Clinton, with text underneath that reads ‘We have a term for cold fish. Sushi.’ The ad includes a photo of Berkowitz with a fake presidential campaign slogan “Berkowitz for President. #feeltheberk,” a play on Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ ‘Feel the Bern’ slogan.” [NECN]
COMFORT FOOD
- A map of where people struggle to afford a two-bedroom apartment.
- Video on how LSD is being used to treat certain mental illnesses.
- If you haven’t already, meet Graham, a model of what a human would look like if we evolved to survive car crashes.
TWITTERAMA
@elisefoley: A child (sounded like?) just asked Trump at a rally what his timeline will be for the wall. Trump didn’t give one, other than “so fast”
@SimonMaloy: in my mind, someone sets a plate of food in front of Trump, and he pokes at it, like he’s seeing food for the first time and is intrigued
@Mobute: Bernie Sanders can turn this all around by refusing to speak and submitting the text of T-Rex’s “Jeepster” as a proposed new party platform.
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