Dylan Jason Ratigan was born on April 19,1972 and is an American businessman, author, film producer, former host of MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show and political commentator for The Young Turks.
22 Facts About Dylan Ratigan
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Dylan Ratigan was a candidate for the US House of Representatives in New York's 21st Congressional District.
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Dylan Ratigan is a former contributor to The Huffington Post.
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From 2009 to 2012, Ratigan hosted The Dylan Ratigan Show, the highest-rated non-prime time show on MSNBC, aimed at critiquing what Ratigan described as an unholy alliance between big business and government.
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In 2018, Dylan Ratigan was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives in, which he lost to Tedra Cobb.
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Dylan Ratigan was born in the village of Saranac Lake, in upstate New York, the son of Adrienne, a psychotherapist, and John Dylan Ratigan.
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Dylan Ratigan is of Irish, Hungarian Jewish and Italian descent.
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Dylan Ratigan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political economy from Union College of Union University in Schenectady, where he was a member of the crew team.
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Dylan Ratigan was the Global Managing Editor for Corporate Finance at Bloomberg News Service, and before that had covered Mergers and Acquisitions, the US Stock Market and IPOs.
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Dylan Ratigan was a contributor to ABC News and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald and Chicago Tribune.
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Dylan Ratigan anchored the CNBC TV program Bullseye for about a year and a half.
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Dylan Ratigan left as host of Fast Money in 2009, provoked by outrage over the government's handling of the 2008 financial crisis.
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On May 27,2010, Dylan Ratigan appeared as a guest host on the daily internet news and opinion show, The Young Turks.
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The final episode of The Dylan Ratigan Show was on June 22,2012.
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Dylan Ratigan appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2008 to discuss the financial crisis.
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Dylan Ratigan has appeared on The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
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Dylan Ratigan won the Gerald Loeb Award for 2004 coverage of the Enron scandal.
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Since leaving MSNBC, Dylan Ratigan has become involved with hydroponic farming.
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In 2018, Dylan Ratigan unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Elise Stefanik in.
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Dylan Ratigan said that he has never voted in an election, claiming a "disgust" with "two choices that are available to" him.
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Dylan Ratigan lost the Democratic primary election, to Tedra Cobb, but won a write-in campaign for the Women's Equality Party nomination in the same district by getting two votes.
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The chair of the Women's Equality Party, Susan Zimet, announced efforts to stop Dylan Ratigan from running on the party's ballot line to prevent the party from being a spoiler.