“Michael Bloomberg, New York City’s billionaire former mayor, is preparing to spend millions of dollars on a super PAC boosting one of his former aides in the race for a coveted Manhattan House seat,” the New York Times reports.
“The intervention is designed to help the former aide, Assemblyman Micah Lasher, distinguish himself from a crowded and star-studded field of Democrats competing to succeed Representative Jerrold Nadler, who is retiring.”
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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.