Bob Weiner Biography-- Track
Bob Weiner is President of Robert Weiner Associates Public Affairs and Issue Strategies since leaving the White House in Aug. 2001 after 6 ½ years there. He was Director of Public Affairs and Spokesman, White House Office of National Drug Policy, under Drug Czars Four-Star General Barry McCaffrey and Lee Brown, and also for the Bush transition.
Earlier in a 30-year top level government career, Bob was Director of Communications, House Government Operations Committee, Communications Director, House Narcotics Committee, Chief of Staff, House Aging Committee, under Cong. Claude Pepper, where Bob led the bill successfully abolishing age-based mandatory retirement and Chairman Pepper's efforts to protect Social Security and Medicare; and Legislative Assistant to Cong. Ed Koch.
In the sports and track and field arenas, Bob serves as Chair of the Masters Media Committee for USA Track Field and is on the executive committee of Masters Track Field. In 2012 he won USA Track Field’s highest national service award for masters, the David Pain Distinguished Service Award, and in 2011 he won the USATF President’s Award, for generating press coverage for masters track field. Bob has directed media for the US national indoor and outdoor masters championships since 2003 (when he first created the masters media committee and recruited Bill Rodgers and Joan Benoit Samuelson to run), for the USA at many world masters championships, and is credited with dramatically increasing coverage on TV, radio, the internet, and social media. He is passionate about the message of lifetime health and fitness through training and competition. He has made all-American in masters track almost every year and regularly medals in the steeplechase (or the mile in past years) and relays at the national age-group masters championships. While working at the White House, Bob served on the Executive Board of the White House Fitness Center.
Bob directed White House drug policy media at the Sydney Olympics and WADA media at the Salt Lake Olympic Games. Former USADA Chair and Olympic marathon gold medalist Frank Shorter spoke at a White House celebration of Bob’s career, saying that Bob helped to create WADA and USADA. Bob has served as President of Capitol Hill Runners, President of Sugarloaf Mt. AC (MA), Vice President of DC Road Runners, current Board Member of Northern Virginia Running Club, and active member of Potomac Valley Track Club. He led the successful bid for the first Indoor National Masters T&F Championship in the DC area in 2009. He was co-director of the Mobil Invitational Masters Mile for eight years, and was director and Chair of the RRCA National Ten Mile Championship.
Bob co-captained Blair Academy’s (NJ) cross country team and won the Ohio Conference College Cross Country Relays while running for Oberlin College (OH). He ran track and cross-country all four years at Blair and Oberlin.
Bob is a White House and Congress correspondent and won the National Press Club President's Award in 2016 for recruiting young journalists to co-author and co-byline articles with him (800 published in major papers), and the National Press Club’s Vivien Award in 2017 for organizing VIP Newsmakers news conferences. He is a regular commentator on national issues on Main Street Radio Network’s 200 stations, has been a “Washington Insider” commentator on Fox Television “Fox and Friends.” has been on CNN, ABC, NBC, ABC, Showtime Penn and Teller, Bill Maher, Crossfire, Geraldo, and is often asked to comment in print media. In addition to commenting on government issues, many of Bob’s articles call for drug-free sports as well as lifetime fitness. Bob's business card indicates his two passions with the federal seal and a runner at the two top corners.
Bob has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. in Recent American History from the University of Massachusetts.
Here for reference is the Masters Media Subcommittee's 2017 Annual Report
2017 Masters Media Annual Report (from USATF Document Library)
or
http://www.weinerpublic.com/20171006.doc