Bruce Ash
| Bruce Ash | |
| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Arizona |
| Role: | National Committeeman |
| Location: | Tucson, Arizona |
| Expertise: | Property and Real Estate Management |
| Affiliation: | Republican Party |
| Education: | University of Arizona (B.A., real estate and finance, 1975)[1] |
| Website: | Official website |
Bruce Ash was elected in 2016 to a four-year term as the national committeeman of the Republican Party of Arizona. He was also the chairman of the Republican National Convention Standing Rules Committee at the 2016 Republican National Convention.[2] He is the president and CEO of Paul Ash Management Company in Tucson, Arizona.[1]
Ash was an automatic delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Arizona. All 58 delegates from Arizona were bound by state law to support the winner of the statewide primary, Donald Trump, for one ballot at the convention.[3][4] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately 1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.
Career
Real estate and banking
Bruce Ash is the president and CEO of Paul Ash Management Company in Tucson, Arizona; he began with the company in 1973.[5] The company was started by his father, Paul Ash. Bruce Ash is the co-founder of ACW American Properties, a government properties broking firm.[6]
Ash is the co-founder and has served on the boards of the Bank of Tucson, the Yuma Community Bank, the Sun Community Bancorp, and the First California Southern Bancorp.[5][7]
State Republican Party
- See also: RNC Standing Committee on Rules
In 2007, Ash was elected as the Republican Party of Arizona's national committeeman and, in 2010, he became chairman of the Standing Committee on Rules for the Republican National Convention (RNC). He has also been on the RNC Standing Committee on Resolutions since 2009.[5][7]
2016 Republican National Convention
Ash was an automatic delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Arizona. He was bound to support Donald Trump for one ballot.
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Ash was a member of the RNC Rules Committee, a 112-member body responsible for crafting the official rules of the Republican Party, including the rules that governed the 2016 Republican National Convention.[8]
Ash served as the chairman of the Standing Committee on Rules for the Republican National Convention.[9] The Republic noted that Ash's position on the Standing Rules Committee was pivotal, depending on what rules the Rules Committee—which is in charge of setting out the rules for the convention itself based on the recommendations of the Standing Committee —chose to adopt.[9]
Ash has been asked about Rule 40—a rule that requires candidates for the Republican nomination for president to be able to demonstrate support from a majority of delegates in at least eight individual states in order to be considered for the Republication nomination for president at the 2016 Republican National Convention—to which Ash responded that "he is not hearing of any desire to change that rule from members of his committee."[9]
Appointment process
The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation. The Rules of the Republican Party required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.
Standing Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Standing Committee on Rules
In March 2016, Ash attacked Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus via email, accusing the chairman of blocking the Standing Rules Committee from changing the convention rules, which "would make it harder to reopen the GOP nomination fight at a contested convention..."[10] The proposal made by Ash would change the rule book governing the convention from the long-used rules of the U.S. House of Representatives to Robert’s Rules of Order. The spring meeting agenda, where Ash and others proposed to introduce their change, excluded the proposal. Ash responded by writing: "I am now informing all of our [Standing Rules] committee members of this incident and insist Solomon’s [Yue] amendment was pre-submitted and will be given priority consideration at the Rules Committee when we meet next week."[10] RNC legal counsel, John Ryder, responded by stating that "[e]specially in the middle of the current primary contest, it is important that the RNC not take action that can be interpreted as attempting to favor one candidate or another. Major changes now are dangerous and not a good idea, in my humble opinion."[10]
Delegate rules
In Arizona, district-level and at-large delegates were selected at the Arizona Republican State Convention. Under state law, these delegates were required to vote on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention for the winner of the statewide primary.
Arizona primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Arizona, 2016
| Arizona Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.7% | 4,393 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 2.4% | 14,940 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 988 | 0 | |
| Tim Cook | 0% | 243 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 27.6% | 172,294 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.2% | 1,270 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0.1% | 498 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 1,300 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 10.6% | 65,965 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0% | 309 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.4% | 2,269 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 11.6% | 72,304 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 523 | 0 | |
 Donald Trump |
45.9% | 286,743 | 58 | |
| Totals | 624,039 | 58 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Arizona Secretary of State | ||||
Delegate allocation
Arizona had 58 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 27 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's nine congressional districts). Arizona's district delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the plurality of the statewide vote received all of the state's district delegates.[11][12]
Of the remaining 31 delegates, 28 served at large. At-large delegates were also allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the plurality of the statewide vote received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were required to pledge their support to the winner of the state's primary.[11][12]
Recent news
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See also
- Arizona
- Republican Party of Arizona
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- RNC Rules Committee, 2016
- RNC Standing Committee on Rules
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Paul Ash Management Company, "Management Team," accessed April 20, 2016
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Arizona Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ Arizona Republican Party, "Arizona’s Elected Delegates to Republican National Convention," accessed May 6, 2016
- ↑ USA Today, "Arizona delegates could decide for themselves at GOP convention," March 7, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 American Freedom, "Press Release: Bruce Ash Candidate for Re-Election As Arizona’s Republican National Committeeman," February 3, 2016
- ↑ ACW American Properties, "About Us," accessed April 20, 2016
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedgop - ↑ Ballotpedia's list of 2016 RNC Rules Committee members is based on an official list from the Republican National Committee obtained by Ballotpedia on June 24, 2016
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Arizona Republic, "Arizonan could play key role at GOP convention," March 25, 2016
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Politico, "RNC rules clash erupts," April 14, 2016
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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