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Taylor Marsh

Taylor Marsh (born 1954), the pseudonym for Michelle Marshall, is an author, political analyst and strategist and also the founder and publisher of the new media blog TaylorMarsh.com. TaylorMarsh.com became a central hub for Hillary Clinton's supporters during the 2008 primary election cycle. Marsh was a contributor to The Huffington Post , covering SEIU [1] events and the AFSCME Democratic debate during 2007 [2] and has written for several other new media sites. [3] [4] [5]

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Early life

Marsh was born in Columbia, Missouri, growing up in St. Louis, after her father died. Marsh went to Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, a liberal arts school, on scholarship.

Taylor competed in beauty pageants to pay for college, starting with Miss Teenage St. Louis and earning the title of "Miss Friendship" in the Miss Teenage America Pageant. [6] Years later, she was crowned Miss Missouri, [7] of 1974 going to the Miss America 1975 pageant. [8]

Professional background

Acting

Jerry Herman cast Marsh in her first audition that led to her part in The Grand Tour . [9] [ better source needed ]

In 2005, Marsh wrote, produced and directed “Weeping for J.F.K.” [10] .

Writing

Taylor worked at the alternative newsweekly LA Weekly in the personal ad department, starting in the early 1990s, as online dating was hitting. "Relationship consultant" became her official title. Marsh was responsible for starting the first "alternative" personal ad section at the LA Weekly. In 1996, Taylor started publishing short pieces online about dating and the personals, marriage and relationships. Taylor Marsh's trademark column inside the LA Weekly was "What Do You Want?," which included mixture of dating and personal ad advice, with political opinion included periodically.[ citation needed ]

In 1997, Taylor Marsh became managing editor to one of the first sites online to make money. [11] Marsh wrote about politics daily on "The Editor's Desk," covering the fight between Ken Starr and Susan McDougal regularly, as the Monica Lewinsky scandal unfolded. Marsh resigned from the post after about a year. She wrote about her brief experience in her memoir, My Year in Smut...[ citation needed ]

Taylor was quoted in the Los Angeles Times in a 2000 article titled "L.A.'s Long Strange Tryst with Democrats," [12] just after the time she began freelance writing, consulting and strategizing, which lasted throughout the 2000s. The Times quoting Marsh about former Pres. Bill Clinton: "I think Clinton understands the messiness of being human. Clinton knows how bright he is, but deep in his soul he has some sexual healing that he needs to go through, that he has some sexual urges that take him in an opposite direction [from] his intellect. Whole people are messy and incongruous and terribly, terribly flawed."[ citation needed ]

Taylor Marsh began blogging online during the John Kerry primary campaign of 2004. Marsh backed Hillary Clinton in July 2007, after reporting on the candidates.[ citation needed ]

In 2009, Marsh moved to the Washington, D.C. area.

Bibliography

Media

Marsh has been interviewed by the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN's Washington Journal, Al Jazeera, and on the radio from coast to coast. Marsh was featured in The Hill's "The Washington Scene", [13] covered in the National Journal's Hotline's OnCall; [14] and quoted on NewYorkTimes.com. [15]

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  2. "Carson City Democratic Forum". HuffPost. 2007-02-21. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  3. Taylor Marsh, "SEIU nurses win concessions", AlterNet, December 6, 2006
  4. "The Hillary Effect: Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 Goes to Three Activist Women – The Moderate Voice" . Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  5. "Domain Registered at Safenames". firedoglake.com. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  6. Pageantopolis.com, Michelle Marshall was Miss Teenage St. Louis and "Miss Friendship", Miss Teenage America pageant [usurped]
  7. Jim Dye, "40th anniversary special edition" Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine , MissMissouri.org
  8. "Home". Taylor Marsh. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  9. "Michelle Marshall – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  10. Two Roads Theater, "Weeping for J.F.K. - A one woman show starring Taylor Marsh", June 2005
  11. Thomas E. Weber, "As other Internet ventures fail, sex sites are raking in millions" Archived 1997-07-25 at the Wayback Machine , The Wall Street Journal, May 20, 1997
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