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VoteHere Votes To Be Here In Washington
Jennifer Curley, the former vice president of technology policy for Edelman Public Relations Worldwide, has left to open the Washington office of VoteHere, a Bellevue, Wash.-based provider of online voting systems.
Curley will be VoteHere's director of government affairs and will lead the company's East Coast government operations. "The opening of our D.C. office and deepening of our government team will allow us to assist federal, state and county officials as they address the country's election-reform challenges," Jim Adler, VoteHere president and CEO, said in a statement.
Before joining Edelman, Curley worked in the Clinton administration's protocol office and for former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y.
Telecom Comings And Goings
Cingular Wireless, a unit of SBC Telecommunications and BellSouth, has hired Brian Fontes to head its Washington office. Fontes previously oversaw regulatory policy at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.
In other personnel news on the telecom front, Susan Fox, the former deputy chief of the Federal Communications Commission's mass media bureau, has joined Walt Disney's lobbying group as liaison to the agency. Fox previously was a senior legal adviser to former FCC Chairman William Kennard.
Pam Small, meanwhile, has left her job as vice president of press relations for the Competitive Telecommunications Association but has not said where she is going. "I am leaving to go to a new job, but before I do, I am taking a vacation. When I get back, you'll hear from me with all the particulars," she wrote in an e-mail.
And the Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO), which represents 500 small, independently owned, local telecommunications companies, has elected James Forcier as its 2001 chairman. Forcier is president of Chazy and Westport Telephone of Westport, N.Y., and owns the Westelcom Family of companies. He also serves on a number of other boards, including the New York State Telephone Association and the University of New York at Plattsburgh Foundation.
From E-Government To E-Business
Ben Green, the former webmaster to Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, has landed at Commerce One Global Services as a senior strategy consultant in its nonprofit practice.
Commerce One is a Pleasanton, Calif.-based business-to-business e-commerce company that also runs a nonprofit unit to serve political campaigns, foundations and progressive organizations. "It's really an interesting and compelling opportunity for me. The resources that I will have available to apply in political and issue advocacy are unparalleled among other players in the political Internet space," Green wrote in an e-mail.
While searching for his new job, Green helped create a Web site for Andrew Cuomo, who is considering a run to become New York governor, a job once held by his father, Mario Cuomo.
Back Where They Started
Ethan Posner and D. Jean Veta, two former Justice Department officials, have returned to their previous employer, the Covington and Burling law firm. Both Posner and Veta had been partners at the firm before joining the Clinton administration.
Posner was the Justice Department's deputy associate attorney general, with responsibility for civil litigation. He also handled enforcement on policy issues such as prescription drug sales over the Internet. Veta was a deputy associate attorney general responsible for a range of legal and policy issues related to e-commerce and technology.
In other lobbying news, James Lofton, the legislative director for Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is joining the Rhoads Group, the newly renamed lobbying firm formerly known as Boland and Madigan.
Lofton, a member of Cochran's staff for more than 20 years, will join the firm as a senior vice president. He specialized in defense, budget, transportation and economic development issues, particularly in relation to the Senate Appropriations Committee, of which Cochran is a member.
The firm simultaneously announced that Judith Zink, a telecommunications specialist and manager of legislative affairs at Boeing, will become a vice president. Barry Rhoads, a veteran defense lobbyist who worked for the firm in its previous incarnation, will head the firm. Last month, name partners Michael Boland and Peter Madigan departed the firm, which is owned by the Cassidy Cos.
Agilent Technologies, meanwhile, has hired Stephen Ryan, Nancy Saucier and Robb Watters of the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips law firm to lobby on legislation and regulations related to U.S. government contracting and e-commerce, according to lobbying registrations filed with the Senate.
Building An Administration
President Bush has nominated James Andrew Kelly to be assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Kelly currently is the president of the Pacific Forum of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. During the Reagan administration, he served as a special assistant to the president for national security affairs and as senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council (NSC).
Bush also nominated Mel Sembler to be president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Sembler is the owner and board chairman of the Sembler Company in St. Petersburg, Fla. He previously served as U.S. ambassador to Australia and Nauru under former President George Bush, the current president's father.
Finally, Bush nominated Robert Glenn Hubbard to serve as the chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Hubbard is an economics and finance professor at Columbia University.
Elsewhere within the administration, Vice President Richard Cheney has created a congressional legislative affairs office to reach out to both chambers in Congress, according to the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. He has hired: Nancy Dorn, a former foreign policy adviser to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.; Candida Wolff, a former aide to Senate GOP Policy Committee Chairman Larry Craig, R-Idaho, to be Senate liaison; and Steve Ruhlen, the former chief of staff to Rep. Henry Bonilla, R-Texas, to be House liaison.
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice also has made some staff appointments. She has named Franklin Miller as special assistant to the president and senior director for defense policy and arms control. Miller, a career civil servant, has held a series of senior-level positions in the Defense Department for over a decade. Immediately before joining the NSC staff, he served for three months as acting assistant secretary of defense for strategy and threat reduction.
Rice also named Daniel Fried as special assistant to the president and senior director for European and Eurasian Affairs. Fried has been the principal deputy special adviser to the secretary of state for the new independent states. He was the U.S. ambassador to Poland from November 1997 until May 2000.
Aides Take A Tech Tour
Staff members for Sen. George Allen, R-Va., and Senate Majority Whip Don Nickles, R-Okla., and 11 other congressional aides took a bus tour of northern Virginia high-tech companies last Thursday. CapNet, the region's high-tech lobbying group, hosted the tour. The participants visited the offices of VeriSign/Network Solutions Inc. (NSI), the America Online division of AOL Time Warner and Winstar Communications.
Roger Cochetti, VeriSign's senior vice president and chief policy officer, provided background on VeriSign/NSI and offered extensive information on various cyber-security issues. AOL Government Affairs Director Lisa Nelson headed the team that briefed the visiting staff on AOL@School, a service that provides emerging technologies and educational portals to students, teachers and administrators. Joe Sandri, Winstar's vice president and regulatory counsel, briefed his guests on Winstar's perspective on telecommunications.
On Thursday, Allen, plans to unveil the agenda of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force. Allen, chairman of the task force, said the group likely would touch on computer security, privacy, cyber terrorism, intellecutal property, copyright issues, export controls and education and technology.
In his personal office, Allen has named Matt Raymond to be his communications director. Raymond has worked on Capitol Hill for the past six years. He served for five years in the press office of Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., first as deputy press secretary and then for four years as communications director. Raymond spent the past year as chief of staff to former Rep. Rick Hill, R-Mont, where he also performed press and communications duties.
At VeriSign, meanwhile, former NSI CEO James Rutt has announced that effective April 1, he will leave the company that bought NSI. Rutt's departure coincides with the integration of NSI's domain-name registrar and registry into VeriSign's mass market and enterprise divisions, which was completed Jan. 1
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