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California Technology Executives Aim to Influence Bush Agenda.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2000
Dec. 18--Less than a day after George W. Bush's victory speech, his aides were calling Republican supporters in Silicon Valley to offer them jobs, solicit their recommendations for appointments and invite them to a high-tech summit.
After eight years of Clinton-Gore, this degree of power and access is a new experience for valley Republicans -- like tech executives John Chambers, Jim Barksdale and Scott McNealy -- who never before had so publicly staked their reputations and riches on a GOP presidential candidate.
"We weren't even engaged in 1992 or 1996," said venture capitalist and Bush supporter Floyd Kvamme, who has forwarded to Austin his suggestions for appointments.
After watching enviously as the Clinton administration built a...
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