Just four months after helping elect Rep. Rod Blum (R-IA), Jack Melton is running as a challenger to Blum’s re-election in 2016, the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier reports.
Said Melton: “I’m sick of the Republican hate speech towards homosexuals, anti-immigration and desire to govern women’s uteruses.”
He added: “To be honest with you, it’s not about me winning. It’s about beating Rod. I do not want him to win.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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