David Garth (born David Lawrence Goldberg; March 5, 1930 – December 15, 2014) was an American political advertising consultant to first Democratic and later Republican office seekers initially in the State of New York and its largest municipality, New York City, though later his reach would extend to races in Connecticut and New Jersey as well.
[1] David Lawrence Goldberg was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, on March 5, 1930.
His first major triumph in the form of an election victory came in 1965, when John Lindsay was chosen to become the next Mayor of New York City.
In 1977 he helped to engineer the victory of Ed Koch over Mario Cuomo in the race for the office of the Mayor of New York City.
[5] Garth also worked on gubernatorial campaigns of Ella Grasso in Connecticut and Brendan Byrne in New Jersey.