North Dakota state Rep. Nico Rios (R), who serves on a panel that handles law enforcement legislation, made homophobic and anti-migrant remarks to a police officer who arrested him on a charge of driving drunk, body camera footage shows, the Daily Mail reports.
Said Rios, from the backseat of the police cruiser: “Your country is being taken over by fucking migrants and refugees. You’re arresting me for driving home and people are coming to your country and raping your women.”
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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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