“All we’re saying in this bill is, if you work at the V.A., and you aren’t doing your job, they get to fire you. I think people are shocked that that doesn’t actually exist in the entire government, since there is really no other job in the country where if you don’t do your job, you don’t get fired.”
— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), quoted by the Washington Post, despite missing all seven Senate votes this month.
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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.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.