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To: RTev who wrote (25622)	7/7/1999 4:29:00 PM
From: Teflon	Respond to of 74651

RTev, t2k, Morgan and all, this information could be the most significant of any i have read of late... Dell to advise Bush on tech By Rex Nutting, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 4:10 PM ET Jul 7, 1999 Bond Report Capitol Report AUSTIN, Texas (CBS.MW)-- A week after a successful million-dollar fund-raising jaunt to Silicon Valley, Republican presidential front-runner George W. Bush has turned to fellow Texan Michael Dell to advise his campaign on high technology issues. Besides the chairman of Dell Computer Corp. (DELL: news, msgs), the advisory council's membership shows the "big tent" philosophy that has made Bush the odds-on front-runner for the Republican nomination. It includes both former Netscape CEO James Barksdale and Microsoft (MSFT: news, msgs) Chief Operating Officer Bob Herbold, who've battled in Washington over antitrust policy. See related story. Other members of the council include Tom Engibous, president of Texas Instruments Inc.(TXN: news, msgs); John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems (CSCO: news, msgs); Carol Bartz, CEO of Autodesk (ADSK: news, msgs); Richard Egan, founder of EMC Corp. (EMC: news, msgs); Ray Lane, president of Oracle (ORCL: news, msgs); and Steve Papermaster, head of Agillon. Vice President Al Gore and former Sen. Bill Bradley also have had some success in winning support from the high-tech community, according to the campaign finance database maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics. Among those who've contributed money to Gore's campaign are 3Com's Eric Benhammou (COMS: news, msgs), AOL's Marc Andreessen (AOL: news, msgs), Marimba's (MRBA: news, msgs) Kim Polese and Montgomery Securities' Lew Coleman (BAC: news, msgs). Bradley has raised money from Apple Computer's Steve Jobs (AAPL: news, msgs). Novell's Eric Schmidt (NOVL: news, msgs) has given $1,000 to both Bush and Gore, while Hambrecht & Quist's Dan Case (HQ: news, msgs) and Adobe Systems' (ADBE: news, msgs) Charles Geschke have given to both Gore and Bradley. All three candidates hope to position themselves as high tech's best friend in Washington. Bush has called for freeing Internet sales from duties and tariffs, creating a permanent federal research and development tax credit, and pledged not to raise federal personal or corporate taxes. Bush has proposed intensifying efforts to combat intellectual piracy and called for lifting the cap on the number of high-skilled workers allowed into the country under so-called H-1B visas. Bush has broken with Gore's policies most visibly on encryption policy and efforts to curb shareholder lawsuits. Teflon