Professional Backgound
- Mandy has a B.A. in art history, an M.A. in communications and a Ph.D. in political science [1.2].
- For two years, Mandy was the media director for the Bartlet campaign [1.19].
- After leaving the Bartlet for America campaign, Mandy took a job with Lennox/Chase for $900,000 a year.
- She left Lennox/Chase to start her own consulting business in D.C. Her first client was Senator Lloyd Russell, who asked her to run his exploratory committee on challenging Bartlet for re-election [1.1].
- After she left the campaign, Josh cut her out of the loop for a year before she was offered a consulting position as media director at the White House [1.2].
- Her salary is paid for by the DNC, but she answers to Josh and she answers to Toby, which Josh offered to put on a chart of some kind for clarification [1.2].
- While working for Russell, Mandy wrote a memo outlining the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of the Bartlet administration and mapping out a strategy for re-election. This memo was later leaked to the press [1.19].
- After the memo was published, Mandy was shunned by the inner circle of staffers and soon after (presumably) left the White House [1.19].
- Mandy's assistant is Daisy [1.2].
