maybe "the markets" will tank, particularly smokestack industry stocks and slow growth dividend players. But technology is a different beast.
Robert Altman vs. John Snow- NO CONTEST.
To woo high-tech execs, Kerry dispatched key economic adviser Roger C. Altman, chairman of New York investment firm Evercore Partners Inc., to California. On July 13, Altman camped out at Yahoo! (YHOO ) headquarters for one-on-one meetings with Valley execs. One invitee, Marc Andreessen, chairman of software-maker Opsware Inc. and a founder of Netscape Communications Corp., had previously spoken out against Kerry's views on trade, but was won over. While he's not giving Kerry money yet, he says: "They're doing a full-court press and doing it pretty effectively."
But it's people like Andy Rappaport, a Menlo Park venture capitalist, who are key to Kerry's catch-up fund-raising. Rappaport and wife, Deborah, have "maxed out" by giving a combined $190,000 to Kerry, party committees, and other Democratic candidates. Overall, the couple has donated $5 million to liberal causes, including 527 groups that now accept the soft money that the party can't. Rappaport reports that he gets daily calls from people who say: "I've been a Republican my whole life, and I never thought I'd vote for a Democrat. But I am so angry at what this Administration is doing that I'm not only going to vote for John Kerry, but I want to have a fund-raiser for him."
yahoo.businessweek.com |
