John Weaver, the chief strategist for John Kasich’s 2016 presidential campaign, said he had backed out of a contract to lobby in the U.S. against potential sanctions on Russia
Weaver’s decision to scrap the contract came just hours after he defended his decision to lobby for Tenam in a series of Wednesday night tweets.on Wednesday. “Man bites dog. How could a Putin critic, someone with a single digit Trump enemy list # do this?”Weaver didn’t respond to POLITICO’s requests for comment on Thursday.
Weaver’s six-month contract with Tenam was worth $350,000, plus expenses, with an option to extend if necessary, according to a copy filed with the Justice Department. While it wasn’t clear exactly what sanctions Weaver was set to lobby against, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Robert Menendez introduced legislation earlier this year that would curtail the amount of uranium that could be imported from Russia, among other provisions. The bill hasn’t made it out of committee.
Fletcher Newton, Tenam’s president, didn’t respond to a request for comment on Weaver’s decision to scrap the contract. He told POLITICO on Wednesday he’d hired Weaver to “work with Congress and, hopefully, make sure they don’t come up with something vis-a-vis Russia that ends up hurting the United States.”
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