Maggie Tamposi Goodlander is a former Navy intelligence officer who also held a top post at the Department of Justice. She announced her run Thursday, May 9, 2024, for the seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster of New Hampshire. (Justice Department)
(Tribune News Service) — A former senior official in Joe Biden’s administration tossed her hat in the ring of the Democratic primary in New Hampshire for a U.S. House seat held by a retiring lawmaker.
Maggie Tamposi Goodlander is a former Navy intelligence officer who also held a top post at the Department of Justice. She announced her run Thursday for the seat currently held by Democratic Rep. Annie Kuster.
Goodlander is the wife of National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
“I’m thrilled to announce that I’m running for Congress in New Hampshire’s 2nd District. I’ve served in all three branches of government and I know how to deliver for New Hampshire. I’ll be a workhorse for the people of the Second District and will never stop fighting for a freer and more just Granite State,” she said in her announcement video.
Goodlander joined Biden’s office of the chief of staff earlier this year before recently leaving the post and returning to her home state. She worked as deputy assistant attorney general for policy and appellate work at the antitrust division within the DOJ and was an aide to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
She shared a story about trying to have children with Sullivan in her announcement video and described losing a baby boy at 20 weeks pregnant.
“We found out that we had lost our little boy and he died on Easter. He was still in my womb. I was extremely worried that I was going to go into labor and they said, ‘Oh, you’re not going to go into labor. You’re not going to go into labor.’ But I went into labor and I delivered our baby myself,” she said. “This is where the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs became very, very real for me. It is wrong that women in this state and across this country are denied the basic health care services that they need and that they deserve.”
It’s a competitive Democratic primary for the House seat and Kuster already endorsed Goodlander’s opponent, Colin Van Ostern.
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