Posted on 05/29/2014 8:40:11 AM PDT by cotton1706
top aide to Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., hosted two fundraisers for Democratic lawmakers during the wave elections of 2006 and 2008 at the home in which she lives and which she rents to her boss.
Kay Webber is Cochran's longtime executive assistant, someone so important to his duties that she frequently travels with him on official trips overseas. Cochran lists the basement apartment of her home on Maryland Avenue NE in Washington as his local residence.
"Cochran spokesman Jordan Russell and others say Webber, 76, who has worked for the senator for 33 years, is a key employee and trusted advisor," per the Clarion Ledger.
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In one case, the house was used as a substitute for Democratic National Committee headquarters, when a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser for Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee was postponed from June 3, 2008, to June 24, 2008. The June 24 event was a "Texas Style Barbecue" at the Webber House, according to Sunlight Foundation records. The event invitation also mentioned Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. Before the 2008 cycle, DCCC had previously hosted a campaign fundraiser at the Webber house on June 21, 2006, for Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
"She has events at her residence for political and non-political people such as engagement parties and wedding showers," Cochran campaign spokesman Jordan Russell explained to the Washington Examiner.
It is true that Webber hosts a variety of events at the house, "an exquisite 1878 Victorian home," as the caption to a photo from a U.S. Senate Youth Alumni Association dinner in 2002 notes.
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Yes they do.
You realize that will be stolen, right?
DIABLO is the new RINO.
Getting hard to tell them apart
There sure are a lot of those in the GOPe leadership.
Is Kay Webber from Mississippi? She has worked for Senator Cochran since she was 43 years old. My daddy had women who worked for him for longer than that, and he wasn’t having affairs with them. And they were incredibly loyal. Anywho is Kay Webber a widow or divorced or never married? I am just curious about people. I like to know their connections and “who their people are.”
I have no idea. She’s an aide and he rents from her and that’s all I really know about her...other than that she has no problem fundraising for democrats.
Send the sewer slime back to the real world.
DIABLO is the new RINO.
‘Cause de DEBBIL MADE HIM DO IT!
Oh man! I sure hope you are really, really, really terrible at premonitions!
Please watch out, and be sure to wear your body armor!
Would hate to lose you because then I wouldn't find out about all the things going on in Mississippi that I need to find out about.
As I posted on another thread, Thad Cochran’s housing arrangements need another look.
He pays $2,000 a month for his “apartment” in the home of his executive assistant. Ms. Webber makes $144,000 a year, but the house is worth at least $1.7 million. Maybe she bought it years ago, paid off the mortgage long ago and is enjoying the run-up in prime D.C. real estate.
On the other hand, if the home is a fairly recent purchase—say, about the time Mrs. Cochran entered a nursing home and the Senator sold his home in Alexandria—then Ms. Webber paid at least $1.4 million for the place. I’m not a mortgage banker, but she would have needed a sizable down payment on the home (at least $150K) and her monthly mortgage payments are somewhere between $6-8K. That would be a little hard to swing, even on her salary of $12k a month (before taxes) and the monthly rent check from Thad.
However, I’m sure that Thad’s girlfriend got a really good deal on the mortgage, thanks to his friends in the banking industry. Meanwhile, Cochran’s “home” address in Oxford, MS has changed frequently as well.
I lived in Oxford for a number of years (I moved away a decade ago). After he supposedly became a resident in 2002, I only remember seeing him at football games and other functions at Ole Miss. Admittedly, I didn’t run in the same social circles, but in my experience, Thad wasn’t in town unless he had an official reason to be there.
The term DIABLO has be around for some time. It’s just not used as much as RINO. I don’t own it, so it can’t be stolen. But any RINOs holding fundraisers for democrats, donating money to democrats, while shacking up with the office help, qualifies as a democrat. DIABLO fits.
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