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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...