Mercury’s Vin Weber and Deirdre Stach co-hosted a fundraising breakfast yesterday for Speaker Paul Ryan, raising more than $100,000 over eggs and bacon at the firm’s new Navy Yard offices. Weber, a former Republican congressman from Minnesota, in 1993 founded Empower America in 1993, where Ryan once interned.
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