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...more focused on local issues, like relieving traffic snarls near Dulles International Airport. "We push for policies that would help the region accommodate growth," says Vic Fazio, a former Democratic California Congressman and lobbyist who co-chairs CapNet. "We don't want the quality of life in northern Virginia to deteriorate to the point that you can't attract firms or workers...
...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 of his own company, America Online and PSINet, among other locals. The legislators were surprised to see so much computer wizardry so close by. At the end of the tour, Senate minority...
...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. It operates much like TechNet except lawmakers don't have to fly across the continent...
...everyone and everything from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen to BlackBerrys (a new model of handheld e-mail device). Other subjects have included woman investors, venture-capital funding, the political battle over high-tech immigration policy, e-commerce, wiring at the Pentagon and spreading the dotcom wealth in northern Virginia. "Shannon is absolutely the No. 1 tech reporter in Washington," says Christie Hart, marketing manager at the Draper Atlantic venture-capital firm in Reston, Va. "She takes all the high-tech jargon, the acronyms, the slang, and makes it readable and understandable." Born in New York City and raised...
...founder of Proxicom, a consulting and development firm with a market capitalization of $3.1 billion and offices in 11 cities. Kemp eventually saw the light too; retired from politics, he sits on Proxicom's board. Currently Fernandez, one of the few prominent Hispanics in the northern Virginia tech community, embodies more than anyone else the dreams of new Washington and the fears of the old. He raises the distinct possibility that political life matters less than it used...