HI.I wanted you to be among the very first to know that Marc Stanley, Fran Katz Watson and I – along with Ready for Hillary’s Rachel Schneider – are very pleased to announce the launch of Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary, the new Jewish arm – if you will – of the Ready for Hillary draft campaign. We hope you’ll sign up, encourage your Jewish friends and colleagues to sign up and to spread the word. And anyone already signed on to Ready for Hillary should please also join Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary, as well. Below is the press release we put out this afternoon.  Thanks very much for indulging me here. This could be fun.  Steve

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 3, 2014

MEDIA CONTACTS
Steve Rabinowitz, steve@rabinowitz.com
Rachel Schneider, rachel@readyforhillary.com

"JEWISH AMERICANS READY FOR HILLARY" LAUNCHES
Joins Ready for Hillary effort

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – Jewish Americans, already ready for Hillary Clinton to run for president, now have another place to show their support. Ready for Hilary, the grassroots political action committee created to encourage the former Secretary of State to run for president in 2016, announced today the formation of Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary. See www.readyforhillary.com/webform/jewish-americans.

Organized initially by leading Jewish Democrats Marc Stanley, Fran Katz Watson and Steve Rabinowitz, Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary seeks to organize and activate Jewish Americans to volunteer, speak out and give and raise money to the premier effort encouraging the would-be campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

With over two million supporters and more than 55,000 grassroots donors, many Jewish Americans have already signed up with Ready for Hillary. Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary seeks to substantially increase that number and to identify Jews who would also like to be known as such.

“If you’re like me, a Jewish American who wants Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016, please sign up with Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary,” says Stanley, the Dallas trial lawyer and immediate past chair of the National Jewish Democratic Council. “And if you’re already signed up with Ready for Hillary, please add your name to Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary and help spread the word.”

Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary joins other Ready for Hillary constituency groups, such as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Ready for Hillary, Black Americans Ready for Hillary, Faith Ready for Hillary, Latinos Ready for Hillary, LGBT Ready for Hillary, Native Americans Ready for Hillary, Veterans Ready for Hillary, Women Ready for Hillary and Young Americans Ready for Hillary. 

“We all wear many hats,” says Rachel Schneider, Ready for Hillary’s Jewish Americans Director who also serves as Ready for Hillary’s Young Americans Director. “Each of us engages in the political process in different ways. With the launch of Jewish Americans Ready for Hillary, we’re appealing to people who want Hillary to run and who identify as a Jewish American to join and to help recruit other Jews to join in this special effort.”

“This effort isn’t only about money,” says Katz Watson, the Democratic political fundraiser and former finance director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC). “But it certainly includes money. We want your names, we want your time, we want your enthusiasm, but we also want a little of your money,” she says. “If it’s $20.16, $100.00, or Ready for Hillary’s $25,000 maximum contribution, we hope you will participate in every way you can.”

“Hillary Clinton deservedly enjoys the overwhelming support of American Jews,” says Rabinowitz, the Bill Clinton White House press aide and veteran of the national staffs of nine U.S. presidential campaigns. “We love her. It’s that simple. We want her to be president. And now, we have one more way to show her that we want her to run.”

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Started by two volunteers in January 2013, Ready for Hillary quickly became a nationwide grassroots movement encouraging the former Secretary of State to run for president in 2016. Now, with over two million supporters and over 55,000 grassroots donors, Ready for Hillary is the vehicle through which Americans of all walks of life are expressing their support for a potential Hillary run. Every day, thousands more people are joining this movement, signing the petition encouraging Hillary to run, and showing her that if she decides to run for president, she will have a grassroots army of supporters behind her who are ready to help her win.
Ready for Hillary is an independent political action committee registered with the Federal Election Commission. Ready for Hillary's spending is independent, and does not make contributions to, or coordinate spending with, any candidates or political parties.