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Alexander Strategy GroupAlliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Alexander Strategy GroupAmerican Bankers Assn
Alexander Strategy GroupAmerican Traffic Safety Services Assn
Alexander Strategy GroupAsbestos Study Group
Alexander Strategy GroupAstraZeneca PLC
Alexander Strategy GroupAT&T Inc
Alexander Strategy GroupCoalition To Preserve DSHEA
Alexander Strategy GroupConsumer Electronics Assn
Alexander Strategy GroupCrowell & Moring
Alexander Strategy GroupDoubleclick
Alexander Strategy GroupFannie Mae
Alexander Strategy GroupFreddie Mac
Alexander Strategy GroupHemo Concepts
Alexander Strategy GroupInternational Sign Assn
Alexander Strategy GroupIntl Pizza Hut Franchise Holders Assn
Alexander Strategy GroupKoch Industries
Alexander Strategy GroupKorea-US Exchange Council
Alexander Strategy GroupLazard Ltd
Alexander Strategy GroupLyondell Chemical
Alexander Strategy GroupMaproi
Alexander Strategy GroupMeadWestvaco Corp
Alexander Strategy GroupMicrosoft Corp
Alexander Strategy GroupNational Assn of Convenience Stores
Alexander Strategy GroupNational Auto Dealers Assn
Alexander Strategy GroupNational Urban Air Toxics Research Ctr

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Alexander Strategy GroupNuclear Energy Institute
Alexander Strategy GroupParamount Biocapital
Alexander Strategy GroupPharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America
Alexander Strategy GroupSouthern Co
Alexander Strategy GroupSprint Nextel
Alexander Strategy GroupTime Warner
Alexander Strategy GroupUniversal Bearing
Alexander Strategy GroupValueClick
Alexander Strategy GroupWilkes Corp
Alexander Strategy GroupXcel Energy
American Traffic Safety Services AssnAmerican Traffic Safety Services Assn

shut down tainted by delay abramoff corruption scandals but BAAAACCCCKK!

The A.A.F. told the I.R.S. that its mission is to conduct nonpartisan research, but it is curious that the largest contribution by far to its parent group, C.P.I., is a million-dollar “charitable contribution” from Save America—Trump’s political-action committee. Trump reportedly raised much of the pac’s money from supporters after his 2020 defeat, and his campaign has called the group an “election defense fund.”

Save America made its contribution to C.P.I. a few months after Meadows joined the group. Meadows’s son, Blake, an associate attorney at the Georgia law firm Foster, Foster, & Smith, appears to be involved with C.P.I., too: his name appears in a lawsuit filed last month on behalf of the A.A.F. against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Matthew Buckham, the A.A.F. co-founder, also has a Trump connection: he worked at the White House during his Administration, in the personnel office. (His father, Ed Buckham, is chief of staff to Marjorie Taylor Greene.)

2/16 did not get gig, son left soon after

House Freedom Caucus has elevated one of its own to serve as the group’s executive director.

Justin Ouimette — currently the policy director for the Freedom Caucus — was serving in the post on an interim basis after the previous executive director decamped to the Senate in December. The conservative group will officially announce Ouimette’s promotion on Wednesday.

The conservative House Freedom Caucus is considering hiring a former Tom DeLay aide who was a figure in a 2005 Washington lobbying corruption scandal, Politico reports.

Ed Buckham, DeLay's former chief of staff, interviewed to be the group's executive director — and is a front-runner for the spot, Politico reports, citing unnamed sources.

A spokesman for the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, said interviews were underway for the position but declined to provide specifics.

The group's former executive director Steve Chartan left to work as legislative director to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Politico reports.

"We're very close,"DeLay tells Politicoabout his relationship with Buckham. "To be honest with you, it would be the smartest thing the Freedom Caucus could do. He's saved my career many times."

Buckham's son Matt is the communications director for the Freedom Caucus, Politico reports.

Buckham's former lobbying firm, Alexander Strategies Group, represented powerful corporations and trade associations that wanted access to DeLay and other top House Republicans, Politico reports.

The firm folded in the wake of a Justice Department investigation of Jack Abramoff, a confidant of DeLay and Buckram who spent more than three-and-a-half years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a variety of federal charges, including fraud, conspiracy to bribe public officials and tax evasion.

Abramoff said he and Buckham "were very close," but that he hadn't spoken to him in years, Politico reports.

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BW bk:

ASG PR (delay staffers) big in K Str; Paul Behrends usmc lt col, rohrabacher (fought w/ muj 1988); john dooliitle got bw tour NC

erik and behr on Chr Freedom intl (RR Iran C guys)Bauer

2 days after kill, marines went in w/ Jim Steele (bremer dep) ernron exec tapped by wolf; col in ctr-insurent el salv death squad; testify iran-c

el salv model? US force back local guys to do dirty work? 115 only like 400 bad guys" in city of 10k (civilains killed by smart bomb)

b2 said he wanted to bomb al jazeera (alleged)

K STR

JA b43 trans team; 3/06 pled; ASG defunct (delay other scandals)

ranked top 25, $ up 34%, 8m$, 70 clients enron, time-w, pharma, lilly MS Salem Comm, Nat relig broadcasters, Grace news; pvt intel/sec via behrend

Intl Peace Ops Assoc delay staff ed Buckham, Karl Gallant (armpac) Tony Rudy (delay liar)rudy worked w/ behrends in dana office early 90's) 337 (w/ erik? said def analyst actually unpaid intern)

erik escaped tho on bd of Toward tradition  (JA chr) mag co and elottery gave $ at a time when delay cd help them

Paul b worked for Crowell's C&M capitol link (BW 2004)339

big in blackwater:

Paul Behrends is a Partner at C&M Capitolink LLC. He previously worked with the now defunct lobbying company, the Alexander Strategy Group. [1]

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Christian Freedom International

"The mission of Christian Freedom International is to help Christians who are persecuted for their faith in Jesus Christ...

"As a U.S. based, grass roots organization, we mobilize Christians in prayer, advocacy, and action on behalf of men, women, and children who are harassed, tortured, imprisoned, and martyred for their faith.

"Christian Freedom International is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA). Members of the ECFA are held to the highest standards of financial responsibility." [1]

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matt t on abramoff

    Take the infamous Naftasib scheme of 1997-98. The short version of this story is that Abramoff and Tom DeLay met with a bunch of shady Russian oil executives in 1997; the Russians then sent $1 million to a British law firm called James and Sarch; James and Sarch then sent a million to the pompously named nonprofit "U.S. Family Network," which in turn sent money to numerous destinations. It went to a lobbyist agency called the Alexander Strategy Group that was run by DeLay's ex-chief of staff, Edwin Buckham; the agency would subsequently hire DeLay's wife at a salary of $3,200 a month. It went toward the purchase of a luxury D.C. town house that DeLay would use to raise money. And it went toward the purchase of a luxury box at FedExField, which Abramoff used to watch the Redskins. If you follow the loop all the way around, the quid pro quo probably involved DeLay's 1998 decision to support an IMF loan to Russia, whose economy collapsed that year and would rely on an IMF bailout to survive. A Maryland pastor named Christopher Geeslin, who briefly served as the U.S. Family Network's president, would later say that Buckham told him that the $1 million from the Russians was intended to influence DeLay's decision regarding funding for the IMF. DeLay ended up voting to replenish IMF funds in September of that year, right at the time of the bailout.

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The Alexander Strategy Group (ASG), a Republican Party-associated lobbying and political strategy firm with offices in Washington, DC, and Hong Kong, was founded in 1998 by Ed Buckham, Thomas D. DeLay's former Chief of Staff, "with a huge initial contract that DeLay secured from Enron. (The group also paid DeLay's wife a salary for several years.)" [1]

On its website AG boasts that "Unlike traditional lobbying firms, Alexander Strategy Group offers an integrated suite of advocacy services that includes government affairs, strategic consulting, public relations, grassroots development, creative media, international representation, coalition building, business development and corporate/crisis communications." [2]

ASG has "worked extensively with the Executive and Legislative branches of government, been involved in numerous Presidential and Congressional campaigns, forged alliances with numerous conservative advocacy groups and worked at the highest levels of the international arena," according to a press release. [3]

On January 9, 2006, ASG announced it would be closing shop due to being "fatally damaged by publicity about the ongoing federal investigation into the affairs of" and "its ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former House majority leaderTom DeLay." [4]

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Alexander Strategy Group in the K Street Gutter

"Representative Tom DeLay's campaign to get Republicans to dominate Washington lobbying may have worked too well for the Alexander Strategy Group," writes Bloomberg. The lobbying and political strategy firm "has links to no fewer than three of the scandals convulsing the U.S. capital." Alexander Strategy Group (ASG) partner Tony Rudy "is now a focus of the federal investigation of lobbyist Jack Abramoff." Founder Ed Buckham "set up a South Korea junket for his old boss," DeLay, "that violated ethics rules." Lobbyist Jim Ellis "faces money-laundering charges in Texas along with DeLay." Lastly, ASG represents Group W Advisors, Inc., a defense contractor owned by Brent Wilkes, who "is one of the four un-indicted co-conspirators in a Nov. 28 criminal complaint for allegedly bribing" Representative :{Cunningham:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:, who pled guilty to graft and resigned from Congress. [5]

"While Abramoff, DeLay and Randy 'Duke' Cunningham dominate the headlines," the Alexander Strategy Group (ASG) "deserves to be heavily scrutinized for its role in each of those scandals and others not yet on the mainstream radar," reported Jeremy Scahill in The Nation. "Recently, ASG was on the cutting edge of one of the fastest-growing industries ... private security," working for Blackwater USA and an image-boosting industry coalition, the International Peace Operations Association. ASG's clients also included Republican fundraiser and "Bush Pioneer" Brent Wilkes, whose companies have collected "some $90 million in military contracts" over the past decade. Previous to hiring ASG, Wilkes retained Patrick McSwain, Duke Cunningham's former chief of staff, as a lobbyist. McSwain went on to found another "high-powered GOP lobbying firm," Northpoint Strategies, whose clients included the Carlyle Group and Titan Corporation ("of Abu Ghraib fame"). Scahill concludes that such connections speak "volumes to how far and wide these investigations should extend." [6]

Personnel

"ASG was founded by Ed Buckham, the former chief of staff to Texas GOP Congressman and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, and Tony Rudy, a lobbyist for pharmaceutical companies and also a former top aide to DeLay. Other top partners are Mike Mihalke, Terry Haines, the former Staff Director of the House Financial Services Committee, and Ed Stewart, who handles the firm's international interests.

"Christine DeLay, Tom's wife, also receives a salary from ASG.[7] Her approximately $40,000 a year salary, though, is "for her job as chief executive officer" of Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee (ARMPAC).

"According to Tom DeLay's communications director, 'DeLay's wife is paid through the Alexander Strategy Group primarily as a bookkeeping arrangement... She does not keep an office at the firm and often works out of the couple's home.'" [8]

But Christine DeLay is not listed among the firm's 17 staff members on ASG's website. [9]

Other staff included:

Daniel Gans, along with Amelia Blackwood, co-founded Polaris Government Relations.

Both Gans and Blackwood were lobbyists with the now defunct firm Alexander Strategy Group, which closed after being tied to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and disgraced House majority leader Tom DeLay. [1]

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Enron

Enron was ASG's biggest client; they received at least $411,000 from Enron between 1999 and 2001. [10]

"Ed Buckham and ASG were involved with a "secret 'grassroots' campaign -- spearheaded by Enron -- to deregulate energy markets... An outline for the plan was faxed to Tom DeLay's Washington office. It was printed on Alexander Strategy letterhead complete with Ed Buckham's name in print. The only problem was that Alexander Strategy's CEO was still in the employ of the federal government at the time... Alexander Strategy Group was, as Enron promised, awarded the $750,000 contract to drum up support for electric power deregulation -- a goal that Enron believed would open the $300 billion a year electric markets to Enron. The stealth campaign would operate out of an energy consortium dubbed, 'Americans for Affordable Electricity' -- a name that Californians would find bitterly ironic just three years later." [11]

Blackwater USA

The North Carolina-based private military contractor Blackwater USA hired ASG for crisis management, public and media relations as Blackwater - and private military contractors in general - came under increased public scrutiny following the public killing and mutilation of four employees in Fallujah, Iraq on March 31, 2004. [12]

On September 20, 2005, O'Dwyer's PR Daily reported: [13]

Anne Duke, a senior associate for ASG, has been serving as a media contact for [Blackwater USA] of late. Yesterday she issued a statement about the company's mourning of three Blackwater employees and a State Department official who were killed near Mosul, Iraq, by a suicide bomber on Sept. 18. Twenty-one Blackwater employees have been killed in Iraq.Duke has not returned an inquiry from O'Dwyer's about the Blackwater/ASG relationship. Her job description on the ASG website says she implements PR plans, manages accounts and serves as a media contact for clients, in addition to legislative work.

Others

Other ASG clients include: [14] [15] [16] [17][18]

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Alexander Strategy Group

Mike Mihalke, Senior Partner

3000 K St. NW, Suite 101

Washington, DC 20007

Phone: 202-339-8900

Fax: 202-339-8927

Web: http://www.alexanderstrategy.com

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Edwin A. Buckham (Ed Buckham) founded the Alexander Strategy Group, a Republican Party-associated lobbying and political strategy firm with offices in Washington DC and Hong Kong. Buckham served as Chief of Staff to House Majority Leader Thomas D. DeLay when DeLay was House Whip.

In the 1980s, Buckham was an elder of the Washington DC chapter of the controversial group, Maranatha Campus Ministries. [1]

Buckham was the creator, founder, consultant, fundraiser, and political mover and shaker for a number of activities which are so intricately intertwined that they appear to be inseparable.

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U.S. Family Network, Inc.

Buckham founded and served as the consultant for U.S. Family Network, Inc. (USFN): a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) corporation founded in Virginia with principal offices located in the District of Columbia. [2]

Buckham "received more than a third of all the money collected by the U.S. Family Network, a nonprofit organization [created while Buckham was in DeLay's employ], to promote a pro-family political agenda in Congress, according to the group's accounting records," R. Jeffrey Smith reported March 25, 2006, in the Washington Post.

Buckham and his wife, Wendy, were "the principal beneficiaries of the group's $3.02 million in revenue, collecting payments totaling $1,022,729 during a five-year period ending in 2001, public and private records show," Smith wrote.

U.S. Family Network revenue was "drawn mostly from clients of Republican lobbyist Jack :{Abramoff:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:, according to its records," Smith wrote. "From an FBI subpoena for the records, it can be inferred that the bureau is exploring whether there were links between the payments and favorable legislative treatment of Abramoff's clients by DeLay's office."

DeLay's Political Money Carousel

Buckham also: [3]

Other affiliations

"Ed Buckham, DeLay's chief of staff, gatekeeper and minister, constantly pushed DeLay to be more radical in his tactics and spun webs of intrigue we are only now beginning to unravel."

Fined

Re RICO Law Suit: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Inc. vs Tom DeLay, U.S. Family Network, Inc. (William J. Olson), Republican Majority Issues Committee, Inc. (Karl Gallant), Americans for Economic Growth, Inc. (Jim Ellis), and Does 1-20, filed in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, May 3, 2000.

The National Republican Congressional Committee "agreed to pay a $280,000 civil fine for transferring big donations known as 'soft money' to an outside group to finance ads in the 2000 election.

"The Federal Election Commission says the NRCC transferred $500,000 in soft money to the U.S. Family Network during the primary season in 1999 to fund political ads that the NRCC should have paid for with a mix of soft money — unlimited donations from companies and others — and hard money, limited contributions from individuals.

"The U.S. Family Network sent $300,000 to another group, Americans for Economic Growth. AEG then spent about $260,000 to run radio ads in fall 1999 accusing Democrats of planning to raid the Social Security fund and use it on other programs. ...

"The NRCC knew the U.S. Family Network planned to transfer money from the party committee to another group to pay for anti-Democratic ads, the FEC found.

"The commission announced the outcome of the case Friday [April 9, 2004]. The FEC inquiry was prompted by a complaint filed by the NRCC’s rival, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

"Under a law that took effect after the 2002 election, the national party committees are banned from spending soft money." --Associated Press.

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