Mary Matalin

Mary Matalin

Mary Joe Matalin is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H. W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin announced she has changed her party registration to Libertarian on May 5, 2016.

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Summary Mary MatalinMary Joe Matalin is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H. W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning documentary film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story and also played herself, opposite her husband, John Slattery, and Mary McCormack in the short lived HBO series K Street. On May 5, 2016, Matalin announced she has changed her party registration to Libertarian. She was a host of CNN’s Crossfire political debate show, and in 1993, she co-hosted Equal Time, which aired on the CNBC business television channel.

Her own talk radio show in the 1990s, The Mary Matalin Show, which was carried on the CBS Radio Network, aired weekends on 120 stations. In April 2006, she was appointed Treasurer of Virginia. She worked on the presidential campaign of Fred Thompson until January 2008, when Thompson dropped out of the race. In 2008, she joined the Board of Directors at The George Washington University’s Cardiovascular Institute. She also serves on numerous other boards including The Water Institute, The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, The Tulane President’s Council, and the Tulane University Council of the Arts and Sciences. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband of 20 years, Democratic consultant and former Clinton campaign chief strategist James Carvile.