Montreal Gazette
Sarah Palin's low-profile, high-impact adviser
By Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
It was the summer of 2009 and the former Alaska governor was in Del Mar, Calif., working on her book "Going Rogue." Earlier that year, Mansour had co-founded a website that offered detailed defenses of Palin's record and acidic attacks on her critics.
Palin was impressed.
The pair hit it off. Mansour helped Palin with research on her score-settling bestseller, and a few months later, Palin offered Mansour a job with SarahPAC, Palin's political operation. She would write speeches and help Palin craft messages that would bypass the traditional media (the "lamestream media" in Palinspeak) and target Palin's Facebook fans and Twitter followers, which now number 2.7 million and 428,000, respectively.
As Palin considers whether to run for president in 2012, Mansour, 36, has become part of the inner circle that includes Palin's husband, Todd; her Anchorage-based attorney, Thomas Van Flein; her Washington-based treasurer, Tim Crawford; and a newly hired chief of staff, Michael Glassner.
Mansour is a "jack-of-all-trades" with "an important role . . . not only from a communications standpoint, but a policy standpoint," said a Palin aide who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not have Palin's permission to be interviewed. (Palin did not respond to requests for comment.)
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http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/PALIN+ADVISER/4458731/story.html
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The original piece was printed in the Los Angeles Times with a photo of Ms. Mansour:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-rebecca-mansour-20110317,0,5892620.story
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