Mari Maseng is a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 advisor who has worked for President

President

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 Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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 and Senator Robert Dole.

Career

Maseng served President Reagan in the White House on three separate occasions. She was Assistant to the President for Communications from June 1988 to January 1989. Before that she served as Director of the Office of Public Liaison

White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs

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 from May 1986 to July 1987 and she was a member of the President's speechwriting staff from January 1981 to November 1983. She was Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Public Affairs from November 1983 to April 1985.

Maseng was Robert Dole's press secretary during his 1980 quest for the Republican Presidential nomination. She held the same job for Dole in 1987-88, until Bush clinched the nomination. For the third time Maseng was communications director of Dole's 1996 campaign.

Maseng is currently in charge of communications for the Rick Perry

Rick Perry

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 2012 presidential campaign. She earlier worked on Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann

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's presidential campaign, and offered her services to the Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

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 campaign.

Personal life

Maseng graduated from the University of South Carolina (B.A., 1975)
In 1991, she married columnist and TV commentator George Will

George Will

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. They have one child, a son named David, born in 1992, and live in the Washington D.C. area.