Subject: RE: speechwriters for the Convention
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: Kenneth Baer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 12:14:44 -0700

Hi Ken, good to hear from you! I saw your FB post but had deleted the app from my phone so hadn’t had a chance to respond. This one is tough. The truth is most Hispanic consultants aren’t all that great in Spanish. The best ones are not American, they’re Lat Am based, so it creates issues for this kind of thing. If you come across names feel free to send to me for feedback.

Federico de Jesus is someone you can bring on to manage translations of speeches. Not necessarily a speechwriter but can help. He was at Transportation and at the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs office, and Reid and Pelosi’s offices before that. [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>. Another who might be able to help is Jose Parra, used to work for Reid, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>.

I’ll tell you ones to avoid. Lorena Chambers --- not actually fluent. Gabriela Domenzain – fully fluent and may be ok on messaging, but was with O’Malley and not sure of the skillset. Avoid Jose Aristimuno who is currently at HHS but was with O’Malley… hasn’t left good impressions.

From: Kenneth Baer [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 2:10 PM
To: Miranda, Luis
Subject: speechwriters for the Convention

Luis --

How are you? It's been a while since our WH days.

Jeff Nussbaum, Josh Lahey, and I are running speechwriting at the convention, and would love your help in getting some names of Hispanic and Spanish-speaking speechwriters. Do you have any to send over? the ones we thought we had didn't pan out.

Thanks!
Ken

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