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Attorney Ray Wagner was a corporate tax attorney at Suelthaus & Walsh before becoming a lobby executive at Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Wagner lobbied Congress in 1999 for a special-interest bill that would protect car rental companies from certain kinds of lawsuits. His 2003 lobby registration says that Wagner represents Enterprise (see Jack Taylor) on “all issues related to the car/truck rental industry, in particular tort reform.” An adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law, Wagner served as state revenue director under Missouri Governor John Ashcroft and Illinois Governor Jim Edgar. He is the son of Loretta Wagner, one of Missouri’s staunchest anti-abortion activists and a delegate to recent GOP presidential conventions. Wagner’s wife, Ann, is a former Hallmark Cards (see Adele Hall) marketing manager before becoming a top aide to then-Governor John Ashcroft from 1985 to 1993. Ann Wagner advised Ashcroft’s 1994 Senate campaign and was the Missouri’s GOP chair in 2000, when Ashcroft lost his reelection bid to then-Governor Mel Carnahan, who died in an plane crash two weeks earlier. Ann Wagner became Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee in 2001. President-Elect George W. Bush appointed Ray Wagner to his Labor Department Transition team and later appointed him to the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board in 2002. The Wagners' son had surgery after shattering his elbow in a 2003 sledding accident. The life-threatening infection that he then developed launched his father on a personal lobby crusade--with strange bedfellows, according to the Wall Street Journal. Raymond Wagner became a leading proponent of a national campaign--backed by the Consumers Union--to make hospitals disclose their infection rates.
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Feb 3, 2005
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