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GOP Lawmaker Lashes Out at Trump

November 8, 2018 at 11:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Retiring Rep. Ryan Costello (R-PA) bristled that President Trump would chide Republicans who did not campaign on his support and lost their midterm races, likening it to “dancing on somebody’s grave,” Roll Call reports.

Said Costello: “It’s highly inappropriate, and it’s deeply offensive. And every single one of those members took tough votes in order to advance a center-right agenda because they believed in it, but they took a lot of heat for it and the President should be thanking them for putting up the tough votes and advancing an agenda which I believe we are better off economically because of a lot of the policies that have been implemented.”

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Ryan Costello

GOP Lawmaker Rips Trump for Stormy Daniels Attack

October 16, 2018 at 2:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Ryan Costello (R-PA) condemned President Trump after he attacked the appearance of adult film actress Stormy Daniels, calling her “horseface” in a tweet celebrating his victory against her in her defamation lawsuit, The Hill reports.

Said Costello: “To say this is unbecoming of any man, let alone the POTUS, is a vast understatement. And to say this enables teenage boys to feel they have a license to refer to girls with such names is obvious. It’s all very embarrassing.”

Costello is not running for re-election.

Filed Under: White House Tagged With: Ryan Costello, Stormy Daniels

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Mulls Retirement

March 15, 2018 at 6:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Ryan Costello (R-PA) is considering retirement, several state and national officials in GOP politics have told ABC News, a move that would boost Democratic hopes in their quest to retake control of the House.

Filed Under: House of Representatives Tagged With: Ryan Costello

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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.

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