User:Cullen328/Sandbox/Dannenfelser


 * Comment Allow me to remind Roscelese that the notability guideline for people says "If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability". It seems that everyone here agrees that the Washington Post source is significant, in depth coverage.  I see additional coverage by "multiple independent sources" at ABC News, the New York Times, National Public Radio, the Boston Globe, MSNBC, the Washington Times, the Sacramento Bee, the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Telegraph in the United Kingdom.  This repeated coverage in a broad range of large, mainstream media outlets convinces me that she is notable.

Reply to Roscelese
Roscelese asked above, "What do the sources you linked tell us about Dannenfelser besides that she is the head of SBA List?" That's a good question. Actually, those sources linked above, and many similar ones, tell us far more than just that she is head of the SBA List.

Here Newsweek profiled her as one of 10 "Faces of the Christian Right", and we learn that she was raised an Episcopalian and once was a moderate pro-choice Republican, before she "about faced in college" becoming a pro-life Catholic, and that she "has the ear" of Sarah Palin. Here and here, we learn that she "co-founded the Team Sarah social networking Web site popular with Palin supporters", also described in 2009 as "a Facebook-like social networking Web site of about 70,000 Palin supporters nationwide".

Here, we learn that she is a "a former staff director of the Congressional Pro-Life caucus". Here, we learn that she cooperates with the National Organization for Marriage, and that while participating in a conference call with conservatives around the country from a room at a Days Inn, "A small picture of Jesus and the Virgin Mary rested on top of the television, while the Pittsburgh Steelers game played with the volume muted."

Here, we learn that she "created "The Pro-Life Presidential Leadership Pledge", which has become an issue separating Republican presidential primary candidates signing the pledge from those declining to sign. Here, we learn that she gave a “State of the Unborn” speech the day before Obama's 2011 State of the Union speech, and plans it as an annual event.  Here we learn that she has "paid tribute to the feminist movement of the 70s and 80s for breaking down barriers that conservative women have taken much longer to traverse."

We learn a lot about her personal political opinions, such as here, where she talks about a "Republican Party apparatus that is wildly out of touch with its base". Here she criticizes John Boehner for what she sees as his failure to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. Although a few TV interviews don't establish notability, the fact that she has been interviewed many times by all three U. S. national political networks, namely CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, is an indication of notability. She is repeatedly quoted speaking about her own views in a wide range of reliable sources, rather than just operating as a spokesperson for the SBA list.

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Fox News here describes her as a "GOP strategist" without mentioning the SBA List. Both Mother Jones here and McClatchy News here quote her as a representative of Team Sarah, and neither mentions the SBA List.