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Lobbying at the federal level is an acquired taste even for people in proximity to the capital. Like the rest of the tech community, Washington-area execs long kept politics and government at arm's length, believing that all they needed to do was to make profits and create jobs and the lawmakers would leave them alone. But they have come to understand that they ignore Washington at their peril. The Justice Department's antitrust suit against Microsoft in 1998 scared all tech companies smart, and the firms closest to the seat of power are on their way to becoming...
...vastly different: the crowd is rich, young and isn't naturally inclined toward politics or government. Last summer Bobbie Kilberg, NVTC president, threw a fund raiser for George W. Bush's presidential campaign. She thought about having the event downtown but discovered that prospective donors in the high-tech suburbs weren't keen about that idea. Kilberg held the event near the Dulles Toll Road instead. It was the first real political event anyone could remember in northern Virginia, generating $600,000 for Bush...
...decide what to make of Daniel Snyder, a Bethesda, Md., advertising-firm owner who made a killing there, bought the beloved Washington Redskins in 1999 and then this year moved its summer-training camp to Loudon County. Snyder is a herald of what is to come; a group of tech executives is mobilizing to bring a professional baseball team to northern Virginia--not Washington. Ted Leonsis, an AOL executive, formed a group that bought a majority interest in Washington's NBA, NHL and WNBA franchises. Then Leonsis made it clear he wanted not only...
Common sense would dictate that the burgeoning high-tech industry of northern Virginia and southern Maryland should take the lead in lobbying the nation's capital on behalf of technology interests. Not so. Executives who live just outside the Washington Beltway had to be dragged into the political fray by Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and now U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Manatt struggled for years to organize the executives but didn't get it done until a conference of business leaders from the Potomac River region last year led to a breakthrough...
Lawmakers love to hear directly from CEOs. The business leaders that lawmakers want to see most, though, are the up-and-comers who run fast-growing e-commerce companies. With their cachet and cash, tech executives are in high demand on Capitol Hill. Especially those who work and live a 30-minute drive away. Indeed, geography was the genesis of what can be thought of as the New Washington Lobby. In the spring of 1999, Mark Bisnow, an executive at Virginia's MicroStrategy and a former Senate aide, rented a bus and took nine Democratic Senators on a tour...