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Al Shugart Is In The Disk Driver's Seat
Buying Conner puts Seagate's squarely on top
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Talk to Silicon Valley executives, and they'll tell you Seagate Technology CEO Alan F. Shugart is one of a kind--certainly the only one among them running his pet for Congress. "The nation is going to the dogs," Shugart declares, "and I don't know what else to do about it."
He's trying to get Ernest, his Bernese mountain dog, on the ballot to give disgruntled voters a way to vent their feelings. There are Ernest buttons, a campaign committee (FOE, for Friends of Ernest) that has raised $3,000, and press releases--the latest bemoaning the "dogfighting" among Republican candidates. Shugart even hits up suppliers. "I talk to him every few weeks about that damn dog," laughs Adaptec Chairman John G. Adler, who coughed up $500.