When the third season of Donald Trump’s once-mighty reality show “The Apprentice” premieres on January 20th on NBC, television viewers worldwide will be introduced to Tara, a 28 year-old from New York City who has climbed to a top-level management post at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey despite her humble educational background.
A New Jersey native who parlayed her work on Jim McGreevey’s 2001 gubernatorial campaign into a stint as the governor’s appointments director, Tara will be competing alongside eight other high-achieving high school graduates on a team dubbed Street Smarts. They will vie with a team of well-heeled college graduates -- Book Smarts -- with a plum $250,000 gig in the Trump empire at stake.
Sounds like some good old-fashioned Must See TV.
The only problem is, more than a few folks in the Garden State’s political world already know Tara as Tara L. Dowdell, a 1998 graduate of the University of Virginia. That’s how she was designated in 2002 edition of Fitzgerald’s Legislative Manual, the holy grail of the Trenton insider world, when she was shepherding hundreds of the new governor’s appointees through the confirmation process
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