Webber, M

<p><b>Mildred Webber</b>, deputy chief of staff for House Majority Whip <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Blunt" title="Roy Blunt">Roy Blunt</a> (R-Missouri), is the former political consultant hired by and who managed the campaign of former House Majority Leader <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Thomas_D._DeLay" title="Thomas D. DeLay">Thomas D. DeLay</a> (R-Texas) for his race as House Majority Whip. In May 2001, DeLay appointed Webber his "director of coalitions". <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.digmo.org/news/story.php?ID=14088">[1]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf031295.htm">[2]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.hillnews.com/050201/capitol_ambitions.shtm">[3]</a></p>

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Webber "helped organize <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/K_Street_Project" title="K Street Project">K Street</a> backing for the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect">GOP</a> agenda as an aide to the past two House majority whips, Tom DeLay of Texas and Roy Blunt of Missouri." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.brtable.org/pdf/NJRoundtableTurnaround.pdf">[4]</a>

In 1996, Mildred Webber worked in the office of Representative <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_M.McIntosh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David M. McIntosh (page does not exist)">David M. McIntosh</a> (R-Indiana). McIntosh is "an Indiana candidate who ran the regulation-cutting <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Council_on_Competitiveness&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Council on Competitiveness (page does not exist)">Council on Competitiveness</a> in the [George H.W.] <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_H.W.Bush_administration" title="George H.W. Bush administration" class="mw-redirect">Bush administration</a> under fellow Hoosier <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/J._Danforth_Quayle" title="J. Danforth Quayle">Dan Quayle</a>. McIntosh won and was named chairman of the House regulatory affairs subcommittee. He hired Webber as staff director." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/ScoopIss119.html">[5]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf031295.htm">[6]</a></p>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mildred_Webber#DeLay.27s_Victory"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">DeLay's Victory</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mildred_Webber#Project_Relief"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Project Relief</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mildred_Webber#Roy_Blunt_Staffer"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Roy Blunt Staffer</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mildred_Webber#Reagan_administration"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Reagan administration</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mildred_Webber#SourceWatch_Resources"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">SourceWatch Resources</span></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mildred_Webber#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="DeLay.27s_Victory">DeLay's Victory</span></h2>

<p>Webber "'said it was more than contributions that led to victory ... 'Tom knew that it wasn't just going to be money that got us the majority -- or that won him the whip race,' Ms. Webber said. 'It was going to be a full-service operation and that's what we became.'" --<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://menic.utexas.edu/%7Ebennett/__310/DeLay.htm"><i>New York Times</i>, October 26, 1999</a>.</p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Project_Relief"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Project_Relief" title="Project Relief">Project Relief</a></span></h2>

<p>Webber was "[a]t the center of the campaign network ... She stayed in regular contact with both the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Lobbyist" title="Lobbyist">lobbyists</a> and more than 80 <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/GOP" title="GOP" class="mw-redirect">GOP</a> congressional challengers, drafting talking points for the neophyte candidates and calling the lobbyist bank when they needed money. Contributions came in from various business PACs, which Webber <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bundling" title="Bundling">bundled</a> together with a good-luck note from DeLay." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf031295.htm">[7]</a></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Roy_Blunt_Staffer"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Roy_Blunt" title="Roy Blunt">Roy Blunt</a> Staffer</span></h2>

<p>The <i>Daily DeLay</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dailydelay.blogspot.com/2005/04/roll-call-blunts-staffers-rep-gerlach.html">reported</a> April 26, 2005, from <i>Roll Call</i>:</p>

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<dd>"Newly released reports from DeLay’s Legal Expense Trust show that the fund received contributions of at least $250 each from six Blunt staffers from Jan. 1 to March 31. In total, the trust banked $48,000 and spent $34,000 in the quarter.</dd>

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<dd>"DeLay received $500 apiece from four aides in Blunt’s leadership office — <b>Mildred Webber</b>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Amy_Steinmann&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amy Steinmann (page does not exist)">Amy Steinmann</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brian_Gaston&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brian Gaston (page does not exist)">Brian Gaston</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sam_Geduldig&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sam Geduldig (page does not exist)">Sam Geduldig</a>."</dd>

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<p>Webber "filed six late disclosure forms in early May [2005] for trips she took in 2004. One trip was to Toulouse, France, and Manchester, England, to learn about 'the business climate for the airline industry.' Transportation, lodging and meal expenses totaling $5,496 were paid for by The European Institute. Three were funded by the Congressional Institute for leadership retreats in St. Michaels ($900), Philadelphia ($596) and Irvington ($728). She traveled to New York courtesy of the Wall Street firm Bear Wagner at a cost of $340. She also traveled to the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., to speak on a panel courtesy of the American Association of Railroads at a cost of $830." <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050616/NEWS06/506160474">[8]</a></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Reagan_administration">Reagan administration</span></h2>

<p>"Curt Anderson joined the White House staff in February 1988. In his work, he utilized the files of Mildred Webber, who preceded him (1986-88) as Associate Director for the conservative and health portfolios. Webber material that Anderson utilized was incorporated into his files, and the Reagan Library continues to maintain it in his collection. (Webber also worked on outreach to women, but this part of her job was not passed on to Anderson. The Reagan Library does not currently have a Mildred Webber staff file collection.)" <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/resource/findaid/anderscu.htm">[9]</a></p>

<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="SourceWatch_Resources">SourceWatch Resources</span></h2>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Government-industry_revolving_door" title="Government-industry revolving door">government-industry revolving door</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Political_action_committee" title="Political action committee">political action committee</a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h2>

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<li>Michael Weisskopf and David Maraniss, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf031295.htm">"Forging an Alliance for Deregulation,"</a> <i>Washington Post</i>, March 12, 1995.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vikingphoenix.com/public/docs/fab50.txt">"Here They Are...The Fab Fifty! Presenting Capitol Hill's Most Powerful Staffers. Are You in Their Loop?"</a>: <i>Roll Call</i>, 1996. "Mildred Webber Staff Director, House Government Reform national economic growth, natural resources, and regulatory affairs subcommittee."</li>

<li>Alison Mitchell and Marc Lacey, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://menic.utexas.edu/%7Ebennett/__310/DeLay.htm">"DeLay Inc.. -- A special report: A Lawmaker Amasses Power, and Uses It. A CLOSER LOOK: DeLay's Fund-Raising Vehicles,"</a> <i>New York Times</i>, October 26, 1999.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hillnews.com/050201/capitol_ambitions.shtm">"DeLay names aides to Whip and personal staffs,"</a> <i>The Hill</i>, May 2, 2001.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dailydelay.blogspot.com/2005/04/roll-call-blunts-staffers-rep-gerlach.html">"<i>Roll Call</i>: Blunt's staffers, Rep. Gerlach donate to DeLay's legal defense,"</a> <i>Daily DeLay</i>, April 26, 2005.</li>

<li>Larry Margasak, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.digmo.org/news/story.php?ID=14088">"Blunt's office tardy in reporting travels. 43 legislators put off disclosure of special-interest trips,"</a> Associated Press (<i>Columbia Daily Tribune</i>), May 31, 2005.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050616/NEWS06/506160474">"Summaries of House disclosure statements,"</a> Associated Press (<i>IndyStar</i>), June 16, 2005.</li>

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