Edwin A. Buckham is Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative

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. He is a longtime congressional staffer and former

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. He served as chief of staff to then

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from approximately 1995 to 1998. Buckham had run the House

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in the early 1990s, while

was the Committee's Chairman, where Buckham hired Jim Backlin, also of

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, now Vice President for Legislative Affairs for the Christian Coalition previously run by

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. He was a lobbyist for the

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from 2004-2005. Buckham is a lay (non-ordained)

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minister, who served as an elder of the

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chapter of the controversial and politically active church, Maranatha Campus Ministries, then later as a

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of a small church in

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Abramoff scandal

Most of the $3.02 million in revenues of the U.S. Family Network came from clients of

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. $1,022,729 of that money was then paid by USFN to Buckham and his wife, Wendy, during a five-year period ending in 2001, via their lobbying firm, the

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. In January 2006 Buckham closed Alexander Strategy Group, and left the lobbying business. Buckham said that the company was fatally damaged by publicity from the federal investigation into the affairs of Abramoff.

References

External links

* George Loper
"Elections 2000: National Republican Congressional Committee Funds National Right to Life Committee and U.S. Family Network,"
Loper.org, December 1999.
"GOP group pays $280,000 campaign fine,"
Associated Press (MSNBC), April 9, 2004.

''The Carpetbagger Report'', April 9, 2004.
"Political Contributions by DeLay Alumni During the 2003-2004 Election Cycle,"
''Tech Politics'' (''CQ Weekly'',

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