Jason Stanford
Writer and former political consultant
Jason Stanford is an American writer and former political consultant who served as communications director for Austin Mayor Steve Adler. His books include Forget the Alamo.
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American Born in Washington, D.C., United States
About Jason Stanford
Jason Stanford has written for Texas Monthly, the Texas Tribune, Texas Highways and the Texas Observer, and he publishes a newsletter called The Experiment. He also contributed to Politico Magazine, Talking Points Memo, MSNBC and the Austin American-Statesman, and he was a nationally syndicated columnist from 2011 to 2015. With James Moore, he co-wrote Adios, Mofo: Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush. He also founded Stanford Caskey, a political research and crisis communications firm. In 2018 Austin Monthly named him "Best Man Behind the Curtain." Stanford studied Russian at Lewis & Clark College. In 1992 he edited the Moscow Guardian, an English-language tabloid for expatriates, and worked as a researcher for the Los Angeles Times bureau.