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Bonus Quote of the Day

January 31, 2013 at 2:35 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“All of this, if they are infractions as they are reported, it’s too bad.”

— Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), quoted by the Newark Star Ledger, on the controversy surrounding Sen. Robert Menendez’s trips to the Dominican Republican and prostitutes.

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan 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.

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