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Paul Ryan has got plenty of friends on K Street
The Wisconsin Republican and his wife, Janna, both worked on Capitol Hill and have long-standing relationships with several staffers-turned-lobbyists and veteran influence peddlers.
“They’ve got a lot of friends in D.C.,” Gloria Dittus of Story Partners told POLITICO.
Dittus, a veteran downtown strategist who attended their wedding, said she got to know the pair when Janna Ryan worked for Rep. Bill Brewster (D-Okla.). Janna later worked as a lobbyist with PriceWaterhouseCooper’s lobbying arm and Williams & Jensen before leaving Washington, D.C., for Wisconsin.
“They are great people. She is rocket smart and he’s rocket smart. Big brains, small town values,” she said.
The list of the Ryans’ K Street confidants reads like a who’s who of downtowners, including Marc Neuman with Limited; Kent Knutson of Home Depot and his wife Karen, who formerly worked for Vice President Dick Cheney; Missy Edwards of Missy Edwards Strategies; and Sean O’Halloran of Honeywell. Andy Dobson of Bockorny Group; Nick Lewis of UPS; Colin Chapman of Chapman Capitol Consulting; Graham Hill of Miller Ice Strategies; and Alan Sobba of the International Derivatives Clearing Group, are also close to the couple.
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