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...could impact everyone from mortgage-seekers to municipalities that need money to fix roads and build schools. "We're seeing players in all of those spaces being more circumspect about whose credit they're going to guarantee and what exactly the credit obligation is," said Ellen Marshall, partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips...
...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. "It was a difficult...
...league. California's Silicon Valley remains home to the high-tech industry's loudest political megaphone, TechNet. Based in Palo Alto, it gives campaign donations in roughly equal proportions to Republicans and Democrats and serves as a clearinghouse for information and policy proscriptions about the new economy. But Chuck Manatt's pleading and Mark Bisnow's bus tour persuaded the upstart firms in Virginia and Maryland to band together to give TechNet a run for its PAC money. Led by AOL, Washington-area tech companies formed CapNet last summer to serve as TechNet's echo on the East Coast...
...Tennessee, where his family ran a furniture store near one of the sites of the Grand Ole Opry. He became a star shortstop on the baseball squad at Vanderbilt, and served four years in the Navy before studying law at Georgetown. While at the Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps, he helped elect politicians in the city and state and then represented clients -- including Occidental Petroleum and Lockheed -- in their dealings with government. He has usually supported liberal Democrats with strong ties to corporate interests: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, former Vice President Walter Mondale, former California Governor Jerry...
Clinton has not exploited the issue, in part because many of his own advisers do lobbying work too. Clinton national campaign chairman Mickey Kantor is a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Phillips & Kantor, which represents Japan's NEC Corp., United Airlines and the National Cable Television Association. Democratic Party chairman Ron Brown is an "inactive" but still salaried partner in the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs & Blow, which represents more than 100 companies, governments and other clients, including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority...