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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2018/11/30/wexler-walker-will-close-its-doors-437194

Wexler | Walker will close its door

By THEODORIC MEYER 

11/30/2018

With David Beavers, Sarah Cammarata and Daniel Lippman

FIRST IN PI — WEXLER | WALKER WILL CLOSE ITS DOORS: Wexler | Walker, once one of the most prominent lobbying firms in Washington, will shut down at the end of the year, said chief executive George Robb Rogers. The reasons for the closure were not immediately clear.

Wexler | Walker is owned by Hill+Knowlton, an international public relations firm, which is in turn owned by WPP, the British conglomerate that’s the parent company of several Washington lobbying firms. Rogers told PI that “Hill+Knowlton and WPP are in the midst of a corporate restructuring” but declined to elaborate. Wexler | Walker’s lobbyists — the firm lists seven employees on its website, including former Rep. Robert Walker (R-Pa.) — aren’t expected to move to other WPP properties. “It’s been an amicable process and we’ve been focused on taking care of our clients and our people,” Rogers said.

— The legendary Democratic lobbyist Anne Wexler and two partners started the firm that became Wexler | Walker in1981 after working in President Jimmy Carter’s White House. 

She helped pioneer the idea of a bipartisan lobbying firm, recruiting Nancy Clark Reynolds, a close friend of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, to the firm in 1983. "I'm a Democrat; you're a Republican," she recalled telling Reynolds in an interview years later. "We could join forces. It's never been done." She later brought on Walker, a former Republican congressman. In 1998, Washingtonian magazine called Wexler “easily the most influential female lobbyist in a world still dominated by men.” Wexler died in 2009.

— Wexler | Walker’s headcount and client list have shrunk in recent years, but the firm still boasts more than 20 clients, according to disclosure filings, including Comcast, the Mortgage Bankers Association and Weight Watchers International. The firm saw lobbying revenue of $730,000 in the third quarter. A representative for Hill+Knowlton didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Still, Wexler | Walker isn’t the first venerable lobbying shop WPP has shut down. QGA Public Affairs, a top lobbying firm under Jack Quinnand Ed Gillespie during the George W. Bush years, met the same fate last year.

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2012

ABB Group$120,000-Electronics Mfg/Eqp
Air Products & Chemicals Inc$30,000-Chemicals
Alstom$80,000Alstom PowerMisc Energy
American Business Media$120,000-Publishing
American Cancer Society$80,000ACS Cancer Action NetworkHuman Rights
American Science & Engineering Inc$100,000-Electronics Mfg/Eqp
AMR Corp$170,000American AirlinesAir Transport
AO Smith Corp$30,000-Misc Mfg/Distrib
Astoria Generating Co$330,000-Electric Utilities
Ball Corp$80,000Ball Aerospace & TechnologiesDefense Aerospace
Brinker International$60,000-Food & Beverage
CFA Institute$200,000-Misc Finance
China National Offshore Oil Corp$130,000CNOOC LtdOil & Gas
City of Huntsville, AL$70,000Solid Waste Disposal AuthorityCivil Servants
City of Weston, FL$30,000-Civil Servants
Coalition for Educational Success$150,000-Education
Comcast Corp$250,000-Telecom Svcs
COMPETE$390,000-Electric Utilities
Continua Health Alliance$10,000-Health Services
Cord Blood Registry Inc$270,000-Health Services
Digital Globe$350,000-Misc Services
Enbridge Energy Co$320,000Enbridge Energy PartnersOil & Gas
Evergreen Holdings$0Evergreen International AviationAir Transport
Franklin L Haney Co$450,000-Real Estate
Harbinger Capital Partners$230,000LightSquared IncTelecom Svcs
Harris Corp$200,000-Defense Electronics
Hong Kong Trade Development Council$230,000-Business Assns
Huntsville Hospital Foundation$100,000-Hospitals/Nurs Homes
IMS Health$260,000-Health Services
Kelly Services$80,000-Business Services
Lewis University$20,000-Education
Loral Space & Communications$300,000Space Systems/LoralAir Transport
Mammoth Mountain$30,000-Lodging/Tourism
Natl Assn of Affordable Housing Lenders$40,000-Real Estate
Natl Federation of State High School Asn$40,000-Education
Natl Sept 11th Memorial & Museum at WTC$240,000-Non-Profits
Neu Holdings$120,000-Sea Transport
Newport News-Williamsburg Intl Airport$30,000-Air Transport
Nielsen Co$360,000-Business Services
North American Metal Packaging Alliance$200,000-Misc Mfg/Distrib
Nuclear Energy Institute$120,000-Electric Utilities
Onyx Pharmaceuticals$20,000-Pharm/Health Prod
Set Jet$30,000-Air Transport
Sierra Nevada Corp$200,000-Defense Electronics
SkyTerra Communications$180,000SkyTerra LPTelecom Svcs
Sports & Fitness Industry Assn$40,000-Misc Mfg/Distrib
Taser International$40,000-Misc Mfg/Distrib
United Launch Alliance$60,000-Defense Aerospace
United Technologies$120,000-Defense Aerospace
Van Wagner Communications$200,000-Business Services
Weight Watchers International$180,000-Misc Services
Williams Companies$120,000-Oil & Gas

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000022477

2016

ABB Group$90,000-Electronics Mfg/Eqp
Altec Inc$100,000-Building Materials
Analogic Corp$30,000-Pharm/Health Prod
Canadian Standards Assn$10,000-Unknown Business
CFA Institute$120,000-Misc Finance
Cintas Corp$90,000-Misc Mfg/Distrib
Comcast Corp$150,000-Telecom Svcs
COMPETE$10,000-Electric Utilities
Enbridge Energy Co$30,000Enbridge Energy PartnersOil & Gas
Harbinger Capital Partners$150,000Ligado NetworksTelecom Svcs
IMS Health$200,000-Health Services
Kelly Services$60,000-Business Services
MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc$240,000Space Systems/LoralAir Transport
National Hydropower Assn$60,000-Misc Energy
Natl Assn of Affordable Housing Lenders$0-Real Estate
Natl Assn of Software & Services Cos$180,000-Electronics Mfg/Eqp
Natl Federation of State High School Asn$30,000-Education
Nielsen Co$90,000-Business Services
North American Metal Packaging Alliance$60,000-Misc Mfg/Distrib
Nuclear Energy Institute$140,000-Electric Utilities
Pershing Square Capital Management$180,000-Securities/Invest
Personal Connected Health Alliance$30,000-Unknown Business
San Luis Rey Indian Water Authority$70,000-Misc Energy
Specialty Equipment Market Assn$80,000-Automotive
The Clearing House$100,000Clearing House AssnCommercial Banks
Twin Rivers Paper Co$60,000-Forest Products
United Technologies$60,000-Defense Aerospace
Weight Watchers International$180,000-Misc Services
Workiva$270,000-Business Services
Zero Gravity Corp$20,000-Unknown Business

Robert Smith Walker, a member of the Aldridge Commission, is "chairman and chief executive officer of The Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, a firm specializing in telecommunications and technology issues. Walker served in the U.S. Congress from 1977 to 1997, representing his home state of Pennsylvania. While in Congress he was the Chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee, with NASA oversight. Walker served as the Chair of the Commission on the Future of the US Aerospace Industry in 2001. He obtained a B.S. from Millersville University and an M.A. from the University of Delaware." [1]

From the MarsBlog at the Louisiana Mars Society, January 31, 2004:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wexler_and_Walker_Public_Policy_Associates

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wexler_and_Walker_Public_Policy_Associates

Wexler and Walker Public Policy Associates are a Washington D.C. lobbying and consulting firm specializing in "international affairs and trade advocacy". It is an independent unit of Hill & Knowlton.

It was founded by Anne Wexler and others in 1981. Wexler was an assistant to President Jimmy Carter for Public Liaison.

Earlier incarnations of the company were:

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Personnel

In 2009, former Alabama Congressman Bud Cramer joined the lobbying and consulting firm Wexler and Walker Public Policy Associates. "Under House ethics rules, Cramer can't personally lobby his former Capitol Hill colleagues for one year, but he can provide behind-the-scenes guidance and strategic advice," reported the Associated Press. Wexler can also use the $1.5 million reported in his election account, after he left Congress, "for donations to the former colleagues he will now be lobbying." Wexler and Walker's clients include Ball Aerospace & Technologies, Comcast, **Nuclear Energy Institute**, General Motors and Wyeth. [1]

History

According to its website, Wexler and Walker staff have "worked on every major trade bill considered by Congress since 1983" including the North American Free Trade Agreement, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and trade relations with China.

Wexler and Walker state they "managed large grassroots campaigns to develop support for the trade generally, for NAFTA and GATT, and for the USA Engage (unilateral trade sanctions) project. As a result, we have developed an extensive network of relationships on key congressional committees that have jurisdiction over trade policy and international affairs".

According to their website, Wexler & Walker "assisted the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) in developing a grassroots campaign in support of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China (PNTR). They have campaigned for China's Most Favoured Nation status.

"On behalf of our clients, we have stopped bad legislation in its tracks", Wexler and Walker boast on their website about their prowess in handling energy and environmental issues. Their "proven" track record in this area they state, is demonstrated by their unspecified work on:

Clients

Wexler and Walker state that it has "represented foreign and domestic clients on a host of business, trade, and international affairs issues". On its website it has a 'representative' list of current and former clients which includes:

Wexler are currently running the campaign for the American-Australian Free Trade Agreement Coalition (AAFTAC), a US-based business lobby group promoting the negotiation of a free trade agreement with Australia. "The coalition and trade team at Wexler & Walker started in 2001 to build the U.S. business coalition -- AAFTAC -- supporting an FTA with Australia", its website states. In 2002, Anne Wexler was made an honorary member of the Order of Australia.

The State of Alaska hired Wexler and Walker to lobby to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas exploration. [1]

Contact information

The Wexler Group 1317 F Street, NW

Suite 600 Washington, DC 20004

Tel: 202-638-2121

Fax Number 202.638.7045

Web: http://www.wexlergroup.com

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References

  1. ↑ Ben Evans, "Former Ala. congressman Cramer joins lobbying firm," Associated Press, January 26, 2009.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/us/politics/09wexler.html?pagewanted=print

August 9, 2009

Anne Wexler, an Influential Political Operative and Lobbyist, Is Dead at 79

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Anne Wexler, who did just about everything in politics — from licking envelopes to running Democratic campaigns to serving as a top aide in the Carter White House before becoming an influential Washington lobbyist — died on Friday. She was 79.

The cause was cancer, said Charles Kaiser, a family friend.

In 1978, with his administration reeling from a bad economy, Congressional contentiousness and internal disarray, President Jimmy Carter gave Ms. Wexler, a veteran political operative, the job of building coalitions to support his embattled agenda.

She brought hundreds of business, labor and community leaders to the White House for briefings with senior officials, sometimes including Mr. Carter, and pushed them to use their resources to further the administration’s agenda.

“Our job is to create lobbyists,” she said in an interview with The National Journal in 1979. “We do that by educating people on the substance of the issues.”

Her ability to mobilize outside support — honed in her campaign work at the local, state and national levels — was critical in some of the administration’s accomplishments, including deregulation of the price of newly discovered natural gas; lessening federal control of the airline and trucking industry; and the Panama Canal treaty.

“I think she’s the most competent woman in Democratic politics in this country,” Hamilton Jordan, President Carter’s chief of staff, said in an interview with The New York Times in 1978. In later years, she advised Democratic candidates like Geraldine A. Ferraro and Hillary Rodham Clinton in her run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The day after President Ronald Reagan succeeded Mr. Carter in January 1981, Ms. Wexler hung up her shingle as a lobbyist and soon recruited heavyweight clients like General Motors. Her firm, now called Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, became known for organizing grass-roots campaigns for trade deals, regulatory matters and legislation.

Australia was so grateful for her help with successfully pushing freer trade with the United States that it honored her with its Order of Australia award in 2002.

In 1998, Washingtonian magazine said, “She is easily the most influential female lobbyist in a world still dominated by men.”

Ms. Wexler’s effectiveness was owed in part to a personality that could be alternately pleasing and tough. “When it comes to toughness, there is no gender for that, my dear,” she told The Times in 1983.

Her success also relied on a vast network of contacts, including the medium-level civil servants she often found most useful, and a bipartisan management style. In 1983, she brought in Nancy Clark Reynolds, a close friend of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, as a top associate, and in 1997, Robert S. Walker, a retiring Republican congressman close to Newt Gingrich, signed on.

As personnel changed, Wexler & Walker underwent several name changes. In 1990, it was acquired by the giant Hill & Knowlton public relations firm, itself a unit of the WPP Group, the sprawling London-based communications empire. Wexler & Walker continued to act as an autonomous unit.

Ms. Wexler maintained that she sold more than influence, despite her “Rolodex queen” nickname. A lobbyist’s real job, she said, is guiding legislators and administrators through the virtues and pitfalls of complex legislation.

“Government officials are not comfortable making these complicated decisions by themselves,” she told Time magazine in 1986.

Anne Levy was born in Manhattan on Feb. 10, 1930. Her father, Leon R. Levy, a prominent architect, designed the New York Coliseum. Her first involvement in politics was ringing doorbells for Harry S. Truman as a history major at Skidmore College.

Two weeks after her college graduation in 1951, she married Richard Wexler, an ophthalmologist, and became a homemaker in Westport, Conn. “I had all the Jewish princess stuff — a lovely home, a full-time maid, lots of vacations,” Ms. Wexler told The Times in 1978.

She also began diving, successively, into local, state and national politics. In 1966, she helped Dr. John Fitzgerald, an antiwar candidate, organize a Congressional campaign in southwest Connecticut against an incumbent Democrat, Donald J. Irwin, who supported the Vietnam War. Her candidate lost, but her interest in politics only deepened.

Defining herself as a liberal, she hurled herself into the nuts and bolts of politics, learning at the feet of more conservative powerbrokers. John Bailey, the longtime chairman of Connecticut Democrats, called her “as brilliant a political operator as I’ve known in 35 years.”

In 1968, Ms. Wexler was a leader of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy’s presidential campaign in Connecticut. She went on to the Chicago nominating convention as a delegate and a rules committee member and wrote much of the committee’s minority report, which was later adapted by the convention and led to far-reaching reforms in delegate selection.

In 1970, Ms. Wexler managed the senatorial campaign of Joseph D. Duffey, a Connecticut Democrat and ordained minister in the United Church of Christ who at the time was national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, a liberal group. One of the campaign volunteers she supervised was Bill Clinton, then a Yale law student.

Mr. Duffey won the Democratic nomination but lost to Representative Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a Republican, in the general election. Mr. Duffey and Ms. Wexler divorced their spouses and married in September 1974.

Mr. Duffey went on to serve as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities in the Carter administration and director of the United States Information Agency in the Clinton administration.

In 1971, Ms. Wexler directed the voting rights effort of the government watchdog group Common Cause until the project ran out of money. She then became a national leader of the presidential campaign of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Democrat of Maine. After he dropped out of the race, she managed the voter registration efforts of Senator George S. McGovern, the party’s nominee.

In 1973, Ms. Wexler became associate publisher of Rolling Stone magazine and oversaw its political coverage. That included supervising Hunter S. Thompson, famous for his flamboyant journalism and unconventional lifestyle. He sometime stayed with Mr. Duffey and Ms. Wexler when in Washington.

Mr. Duffey survives her, as do two sons by her previous marriage, David and Daniel Wexler; her stepsons, Michael and David Duffey; and three grandchildren.

Mr. Duffey and Ms. Wexler went to work for Mr. Carter’s presidential campaign in the spring of 1976 and later joined the Carter transition team, helping screen candidates for administration jobs. Concentrating on the Commerce Department, Ms. Wexler recommended Juanita Kreps, an economist, for commerce secretary.

“No one knew who Juanita Kreps was, and she found Juanita Kreps,” Mark Siegel, a Democratic campaign consultant, said in an oral history interview in 2000.

Ms. Kreps became commerce secretary, the first woman to hold this post, and Ms. Wexler became a commerce undersecretary in charge of regional directors. In April 1978, Ms. Wexler became an assistant to the president, replacing Midge Costanza as his liaison with constituent groups. Some said Ms. Wexler gave the administration a measure of political skill it had been lacking.

“If things have picked up in terms of political nitty gritty, it’s because of Anne Wexler,” an unidentified Democratic leader in Congress told The Times in November 1978. “She’s been in politics for a long time. She thinks like a congressman.”

As a lobbyist, Ms. Wexler could antagonize liberals by sometimes joining with conservatives on issues and, through her firm, often contributing more to Republicans than Democrats.

But sometimes she could not help being an old-fashioned, partisan Democrat. After President Reagan replicated Truman’s whistle-stop train tour during the 1984 campaign for re-election, Ms. Wexler explained in an interview with The Times why a Republican would imitate a Democrat.

Republicans honored Democratic heroes, she said, “because they don’t have any of their own.”

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2007

Few passers-by notice the 120-year-old building at 1317 F St. N.W., whose top three floors for the past 24 years have housed Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, a 20-person lobbying firm that racked up $8.2 million in revenue last year.

An event of some note, however, occurs next Tuesday when Sir Martin Sorrell comes to lunch in Wexler & Walker's newly renovated ninth-floor conference room for his first visit. Since 1986, Sorrell, 62, has been the London-based chief executive of the WPP Group, the world's second-largest marketing enterprise. WPP controls about 100 communications and marketing companies, whose revenue in dollar terms nearly topped $60 billion in 2006. Together, these service-oriented firms employ 98,000 people working in more than 2,000 offices in 106 countries.

One of the conglomerate's smallest -- in size, but not in influence -- is Washington's Wexler & Walker. At the Sorrell lunch, the firm plays host to a cluster of independently run corporate cousins that WPP also owns here. Anne Wexler, the firm's founder and chair of the executive committee, has been a successful lobbyist for more than a quarter of a century. She also has been a player in Democratic politics since 1968, capped by her current role as a major fundraiser and adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in her quest for the presidency.

In a group interview, Wexler and other key executives laid out the firm's mantra. In sum, it calls for combining highly personalized and broadly based services to its clients in a team-oriented, bipartisan approach that stresses practical government experience. The firm's impressive client list spans a wide range of companies and industry groups. The core revolves around aerospace and defense, aviation and transportation, energy, financial services, pharmaceuticals, telecoms and free-trade advocates.

"People hire us because we have served on the other side of the table," said Wexler, who turned 77 last month. "The clients have the security that if someone is not around, there's always somebody else."

The firm changed its name a decade ago, when Robert Walker joined as chairman. For 20 years, the stalwart conservative represented Pennsylvania's strongly Republican 16th Congressional District, in the southeastern part of the state, west of Philadelphia. As the House Republicans' chief deputy whip, Walker, 64, was a close ally of Newt Gingrich, the Georgia Republican who was speaker of the House.

"Lobbying is changing in remarkable ways at this time," Walker said. "I think the main difference is that today lobbyists have to be strategic thinkers. They have to deal with a whole ocean of information that's available out there, and give their clients an ability to sort through that information and come up with the best possible strategy. You can no longer, in my view, operate a successful lobbying business by simply opening doors. You have to give them more than that. You have to give them the kind of advice that only people who have been inside government can really provide."

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"It really is not the case of getting the door open," echoed the firm's president, Jack Howard, who came on board in 2005 after an interrupted tour in the White House legislative liaison shop for both the first and second President Bush. It is essential that "your public policy argument is being made at the right time in the right place in a way that differentiates you from all the other public policy arguments. That's the real trick to the thing. We see what arguments really work from the inside."

Howard has wide-ranging experience on Capitol Hill; he was deputy chief of staff to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) while he was majority leader and worked for House speakers Gingrich and Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.).

As Wexler put it: "That's a lot easier to approach people when you know what you're talking about. That's an invaluable commodity that people like Jack and Bob have."

In the early 1970s, when Rolling Stone took an avid interest in politics, Wexler ran the magazine's Washington bureau, forming lasting friendships with journalists. Next, she ran President Jimmy Carter's outreach shop. That White House experience, she said, gave her the confidence to start a lobbying and consulting firm. She did so in 1981 after Carter left office, at a time when the industry was populated mainly by members of the old boys' club.

A special payday came along in 1990, when Hill & Knowlton Inc., a giant public relations firm, took Wexler, Reynolds, Fuller, Harrison & Schule, as it was then known, under its wing. Three years earlier, WPP had tucked the JWT Group, by then the parent company of Hill & Knowlton, into its burgeoning communications empire.

Nowadays, Wexler & Walker operates as an autonomous unit that cooperates with its parent when it is in their mutual interest to do so. Monthly reports go directly to London, and Sorrell's e-mails go directly to the F Street office.

WPP lists 18 separate Washington-based entities. They include Quinn Gillespie & Associates, Timmons & Co., Ogilvy Government Relations (formerly the Federalist Group), Public Strategies Inc., the Dewey Square Group and Hill & Knowlton. Also in the WPP fold is Burson-Marsteller Worldwide, whose chief executive, Mark Penn, is a top strategist for Sen. Clinton.In addition, Penn's firm owns BKSH & Associates, run by Charles R. Black Jr., a leading GOP adviser.

Each one of these WPP "tubs" floats on its own bottom. Political action committees pose the sole dicey area. That is because each WPP-owned firm needs to monitor the others' campaign contributions to make sure that they collectively do not exceed the legal ceilings in each category in each election cycle.Records show that in 2006, Wexler & Walker's PAC gave $103,500 to various candidates, with 64 percent going to Republicans and 36 percent to Democrats.

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