APOLOGIES if this has been posted before:
AND apologies for the wall of text, but i like reading some of the findings without having to click the links.
ALSO: archived links as these do disappear once we find the connections. Google must be helping the deep state, no?
working on the Steve Jobs/Wife/Lover angle:
Lover Former Mayor Fenty:
https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-documents-dc-mayors-office-re-mayor-fentys-overseas-trip-dubai/
Mayor Fenty’s trip to China, which cost $11,300 according to the documents uncovered by Judicial Watch, was paid for by the governments of Shanghai and Beijing, as well as the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship, a Chinese government entity. One letter, signed by the Director General of Beijing’s Foreign Affairs Office states: “…
GOES TO SILICON VALLEY:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/go-west-young-mayor-dcs-adrian-fenty-heads-to-silicon-valley-and-is-fitting-in-nicely/2013/10/22/44e63ffc-248f-11e3-b3e9-d97fb087acd6_story.html?utm_term=.45a2165fb160
SOME STAND OUT LINES IN ARTICLES:
Super-lobbyist Heather Podesta is here, billed as “the insider’s insider,” telling attendees that their companies should be friends with their elected officials. “You’re like the shiny little object to a member of Congress,” she says, “because you’re the future.”
And Adrian Fenty is here. Adrian Fenty used to be the future — at least in the District of Columbia, where he was born and raised and served as neighborhood commissioner, city councilman and mayor.
Now, three years after being booted from the Wilson Building and 10 months after separating from his wife, the native son has gone into semi-self-exile from his home town.
Where exactly did he go?
The literal answer is Silicon Valley, where he’s fashioning a second act in a land that is more tolerant of brashness, of radical change at high speeds.
The vaguer answer, though, is somehow more fitting: Adrian Fenty has gone up into the cloud.
AND THIS ONE:
In the seven months after he left office in January 2011, Fenty booked five gigs that signaled his transition from public official to private guru: an “outside adviser” to both a Philadelphia accounting firm and foreign-language software publisher Rosetta Stone, a “strategic adviser” on government matters to the Herndon office of information-technology consultancy Capgemini, special counsel at his friend and fundraiser Bruce Klores’s law firm, and an “advisory board member” at Georgetown’s EverFi, an education technology company.
His value? Connections. Klores’s firm had a long-standing case involving the State Department, which was giving its lawyers the runaround, Klores says, until Fenty was dispatched “to talk the language from one person in government to another to get them to understand the bigger picture of the case.”
Fenty connected EverFi directly to government officials with whom he’d previously networked, helping the company transition its business from small markets such as the Mississippi Delta to school systems in major cities. Access is invaluable, says EverFi’s president and founder, Tom Davidson, and Fenty delivered it.
“You can’t throw a cat in this town without hitting a former politician trying to get involved with technology companies,” Davidson says. Fenty has been welcomed with open arms out West because “Silicon Valley is targeting these intractable social issues in a way that it never really has before.”
AND THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR:
He met Laurene Powell Jobs that year at an education conference in Houston, joined the board of her education nonprofit in February 2012 and met investor Marc Andreessen, a Netscape co-founder, at one of its events. That September, Fenty became a “special adviser” to his hotshot venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, which manages a multibillion-dollar fund from its headquarters in Menlo Park.
Perkins Coie partner Buddy Arnheim had a casual lunch with Fenty in California around that time at the suggestion of John Devaney, a partner in the firm’s D.C. office, where Fenty’s wife, Michelle, used to work. As of last month, Fenty had an office two doors down from Arnheim at the Palo Alto office, a 10-minute drive from Andreessen Horowitz.
He spends about three days a week as counsel in Perkins Coie’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice, where his business-development portfolio is likely to eventually consist of a couple dozen start-ups and a handful of institutional investors. The balance of his week is spent on Andreessen Horowitz and weekend visits to the District, where his teen sons reside with his parents, Phil and Jan Fenty. Michelle Fenty’s job as the Inter-American Development Bank’s representative in Trinidad and Tobago is based in its capital of Port-au-Spain; their 4-year-old daughter, Aerin, stays with her.