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Foundation head Todd Capser takes Burns job
Todd Capser, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Technology Foundation in Billings, has been named the new state director for Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont.
By TOM HOWARD
Of The Gazette Staff
Capser, a former aide to Burns, said he expects to assume his new duties around Feb. 1.
"That gives me some time to finish up some tasks that I’ve been working on," Capser said Tuesday. Capser said he specialized in health care, labor and small-business issues while he worked for Burns.
Capser replaces Shawn Vasell, who has served as Burns’ state director since last February.
Capser, 31, graduated from Skyview High and Rocky Mountain College and has been at the foundation for nearly three years.
The Rocky Mountain Technology Foundation, a partnership between Rocky Mountain College and Deaconess Billings Clinic, was formed to expand health and education opportunities through telecommunications.
Yellowstone County Commissioner James A. "Ziggy" Ziegler and former Montana House Majority Leader Larry Grinde, R-Lewistown, were the other finalists for the state director’s job, said Will Brooke, Burns’ chief of staff.
"We had a lot of quality applicants," Brooke said. "We went through the final interviews and realized we had a difficult job."
Brooke said Vasell plans to return to the law firm where he worked before moving to Montana. Vasell was previously director of government affairs for Greenberg & Traurig, the law firm of Barry Richard, President Bush’s lead attorney during the 2000 presidential Florida recount court case.
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