Jim VandeHei and John Harris founded Politico. Simon was brought on as one of their star “reporters” along with Mike Allen. After many complaints of bias, Simon became an “opinion/analysis” contributor. Which says a lot since Politico is all leftwing dribble. Simon is basically a little leftist troll.
Mike Allen actually left Journo-lism to work for Debbie Wasserman Schultz for a month or two. But, he's an impartial Journo-list, for sure.
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