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TheStandard.com TechNet Names a Texas Exec for GOP Lobbying Job By Scott Harris A Texas Republican with close ties to the Senate has been named TechNet's vice president of Republican outreach -- and the technology lobbying body didn't look far to find her. Margaret Lauderback, who opened TechNet's first chapter outside California, in Austin, two years ago, was elevated from the position of VP of membership. She succeeds Lezlee Westine, who left TechNet to head the Office of Public Liaison for President George W. Bush. ADVERTISEMENT "I have big shoes to fill," Lauderback said. But "I speak the language of the White House," she half-joked in a distinctive drawl. "They understand me when I call." During the past two years, Lauderback helped expand TechNet from its Silicon Valley roots into a national alliance of more than 250 executives representing a similar number of technology and biotech companies. Previously, Lauderback had worked extensively in Washington and Texas politics, both in government and private-sector jobs. From 1992 to 1994, she worked for the National Republican Senatorial Committee under Chairman Phil Gramm at a time when the GOP won control of the Senate. She later worked as a lobbyist for Ameritech during deliberations of the Telecom Reform Act of 1995. She later became regional director for Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. At TechNet, Lauderback developed a Texas operation with eight members into a body of 55 executives representing as many companies. She also helped launch chapters -- or "nodes," as TechNet prefers to call them -- in Massachusetts, Indiana and California's Orange County. The chapters claim several members, including Dell Computer founder Michael Dell, who supported George W. Bush's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns. Dell and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Floyd Kvamme co-chaired Bush's technology advisory group during the campaign. "It all dovetails very nicely," Lauderback said. "Margaret is the perfect person for this job," TechNet CEO Rick White said in a press release. "Her political skills, fundraising experience and her years at TechNet are an unbeatable combination." Her appointment completes the reconstruction of TechNet's executive team in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election. White, a Republican and former congressman, was named CEO, filling a position that had been shared on an acting basis by Westine and her Democratic counterpart Jeff Modisett. White recently named Donnie Fowler, a onetime aide to former Federal Communications Commission Chairman David Kennard, as VP of Democrat Outreach, succeeding Modisett, who is now practicing law in Los Angeles. TechNet also recently hired Leslie Saul as director of public policy. Saul joined TechNet from 3Com where she was the education industry manager. At TechNet Saul will focus on education reform, research and development issues, and broadband. Lauderback's and Fowler's backgrounds in communications policy is expected to be helpful as TechNet embarks on its own broadband policy initiative. Internet privacy and accounting rules are also among the group's policy priorities. "With Margaret in place on the Republican side and Donnie Fowler working on the Democratic side, we are now in a position to expand TechNet's influence in Washington, D.C., and around the country," White said. biz.yahoo.com