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To: Zoltan! who wrote (20403)6/8/2000 11:00:00 AM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
The CEO of the best run company in the world holds fund-raiser for Bush and GOP - chief beneficiary of the internet shows his gratitude to it's inventor:

June 8, 2000


Cisco's Chambers Revs Up Political-Contribution Engine
By GREG HITT

Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON -- Cisco Systems Inc. has been on an investment binge since John Chambers became chief executive of the Silicon Valley company in the mid-1990s. Now Mr. Chambers is bringing something of the same approach to politics.

This month he is throwing open the doors of his home in Los Altos, Calif., for a fund-raiser benefiting the GOP and Texas Gov. George W. Bush that promises to rival a $2.5 million Silicon Valley event that benefited Democrats and Vice President Al Gore in April.

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