Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 189
Navigating the Nonsense
Clay Pell (D), the 32-year-old grandson of a six-term U.S. senator — and husband of former Olympic figure-skater Michelle Kwan — is running for governor of Rhode Island, the Providence Journal reports.
“A newcomer to Rhode Island politics, Pell faces two of the rising stars in the state Democratic Party in the September 2014 primary: Gen. Treas. Gina Raimondo, 42, and Providence Mayor Angel Taveras, 43. Both have political resumes and million-dollar campaign funds.”
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.