Sorry if this already well known. I searched the subverse for Michael Werz but didn't see this.
Wikileaks Email: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26903
Full email text from Michael Werz:
Dear friends and colleagues, We will have the third annual cookout at 1837 California Street NW on Sunday, December 28th and we would like you and your partner to be part of it. This year, our party will be taco themed—with fresh, handmade tortillas flown in from Mexico the previous day, an entire suckling pig as well as sides and salsas. We plan to start eating (and drinking) in the early afternoon hours at 3 p.m. Kosher and vegetarian options will be available. We will have a decent selection of white and red wines at hand as well as beer. This is a family friendly event, so you should bring all children that are available. Please let us know if you will join in. All best, Helga Flores, Matt Duss, Michael Werz P.S. Parking is difficult in our neighborhood, Dupont Metro ten minutes by foot. 16th and U Streets bus stop five minutes.
Podesta's Response:
Thanks Michael. We'll be in California. Love to Helga.
Building square footage doesn't seem that large, and adults will be drinking starting at 3PM, so why should everyone bring any children that "are available"?
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1837-California-St-NW_Washington_DC_20009_M59375-81558
Seems that Podesta and Werz did go back at least a bit.
http://archive.is/MDEwh
Two years earlier, Podesta gave the keynote address at a TUSKON conference in Istanbul. In his speech—titled “The Unique Importance of the Turkish-American Relationship”—he praised CAP senior fellow Michael Werz for his work on “strengthening the US-Turkey relationship.” He also pointedly noted that Werz’s predecessor as CAP’s Turkey expert, Spencer Boyer, had left the think tank to become the Obama administration’s deputy assistant secretary for European affairs.
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Yates ago
They could have flown the tortillas in from Cali, we have a dozen home-made tortilla shops just in my neighborhood. Certainly there must be a shop like that on the east coast. They're only corn and water, it's not fucking rocket science. This is fucked up.
doubletake ago
nope. you are so wrong. there's no mexicans east of the mississippi. no tortillas either. East Coasters haven't discovered them yet. mexicans haven't made it that far yet. Heard they've got to about Dallas. So yeah, sure, they should have just flown them in from Mexico. Where else are they going to fly them in from? $5000 for shipping? That's the way it is. Wake up. I don't see a problem. Happens all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NNOrp_83RU
TheSpeaker2 ago
Don't know where you're from but you're way off. I live in the Midwest/Great Lakes and I'd estimate they're at least 15% of the population in my area which is well east of the Mississippi. They're everywhere you go...many Mexican grocery shops, restaurants, bars, etc are popping up here and there.
Granted, there are a few more where I live because there are more manufacturing jobs in my area...but make no mistake, they're here.
doubletake ago
Of course there's mexicans and tortillas in NYC. All the way up to Maine and into Canada! it was a joke, satire, etc. good lord, flying in tortillas from mexico makes as much sense as the $65k price for "pizzas" and "hotdogs" from Chicago. This tortilla thing is a huge discovery. Maybe opens a door to Latino pedo codes. sigh...
TheSpeaker2 ago
Lol okay...don't know why but I read your comment at face value. If it makes you feel any better I upvoted you.
Cheers