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Former Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner, whose personal fortune—made in the cell-phone business—is estimated to approach $200 million, is often touted as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. He fielded questions in a sit-down interview at the Institute of Politics yesterday evening...
...Mark Warner: I was interested in politics before I came to Harvard. I had worked on Capitol Hill while I was in college at George Washington...And I will always remember at law school always trying to convince my classmates, “Hey, let’s not go sell out and work for a big corporate law firm—let’s go change the world...
Former Virginia Governor Mark Warner delivered what could have been a trial stump speech to a standing room only crowd at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night...
...Warner recounted his life story before a largely friendly audience, talking about his youth at public schools in the Midwest and Connecticut, his matriculation to George Washington University (he is the first member of his family to attend college), his less-than-stellar record at Harvard Law School (when he failed to receive a job offer at the firms he worked for as a summer associate), and his early difficulties as an entrepreneur. (He ultimately co-founded a small phone company that became Nextel, and his personal net worth is estimated at nearly $200 million...
...stand before you as somebody who lived the American dream,” he said. “What makes me a Democrat,” according to Warner, is that “it was their programs and policies that gave me that fair shot...