MEMORANDUM

TO: CARL PALADINO

CC: MICHAEL CAPUTO

FROM: NICK SINATRA

DATE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2010

RE: JUNE 8th ELECTION RESULTS

TOPLINE: Yesterday was a great day across the country for outsider-type candidates like you.
While a major headline from last night is the triumph of Republican women candidates, other
than gender, the profile that voters flocked to on Election Day mirrors yours emphatically. Many
of those who won had earned the political and financial backing of Tea Party-oriented groups
and supporters. Reform-minded, business executives won the day. Establishment, career
politicians were the big losers.

NEVADA: Tea Party-backed Sharron Angle beat the Republican, establishment candidate—
former State Republican Chairwoman to become the Republican nominee against U.S. Senate
Democratic leader Harry Reid. Angle started off running a shoestring campaign but in the last
few weeks, as she gained momentum, the Tea Party Express directed $500,000 from its PAC into
her campaign. The Club for Growth and other conservative groups spent another $600,000 on the
race as well. Angle is an anti-tax crusader and uncompromising conservative - much like you.

SOUTH CAROLINA: Tea Party favorite Nikki Haley won the majority of votes in the GOP
gubernatorial primary. She dealt a huge blow to the State Republican Party by besting Lt Gov.
Andre Bauer and Attorney General Henry McMaster and receiving more votes than her runoff
opponent conservative Republican Congressman Gresham Barrett. On an outsider, reformist
message, Haley’s popularity has risen despite aggressive personal attacks against her, proving
convention messaging and tactics will backfire this (watershed) year. Both Sarah Palin and the
Tea Party Express endorsed her.

GEORGIA: Tea Party supporters grabbed a victory in the contested Georgia runoff where Tom
Graves defeated former statehouse member Lee Hawkins in a special election for the U.S.
Congress. Graves was backed by the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots and the Conservative Club for
Growth.

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CALIFORNIA: Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, won the Republican Primary for
Governor and Carly Fiorina the former CEO of Hewlett Packard won the Republican Primary for
U.S. Senate. Both of them ran as business leaders and outsiders with the executive experience to
fix government and as non-career politicians. Both of them beat Republican establishment-type
candidates and neither has every held elective office. Does this remind you of anyone?

TAKEAWAY: Carl, the message that won yesterday all across the country is one of reform and
change. Business executives are beating career politicians and party boss-backed candidates in
states from sea to shining sea. Unconventional is trumping conventional. Party darlings and
legacy candidates waiting in the wings for their chance to run for office went down to defeat.
You should be emboldened by the results. Your candidacy is exactly what voters are craving.
Your message—I’m going to take Albany by storm and clean it up with a baseball bat—is what
is what New York voters will respond to overwhelmingly.

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