North Dakota state Rep. Nico Rios (R) “was sentenced to nearly a year of unsupervised probation and to pay $1,000,” The Messenger reports.
“Rios was arrested on Dec. 15 for driving under the influence after leaving a party. He unleashed a vicious anti-British tirade on the arresting officer, who was an English-born U.S. citizen, threatening to call the Attorney General and say that they were ‘being an ass’ to him, according to a report.”
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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.