Alec Poitevint
| Alec Poitevint | |
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| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | District-level delegate |
| Congressional district: | 2 |
| State: | Georgia |
| Bound to: | Ted Cruz |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
| Alec Poitevint | |
| Basic facts | |
| Current Campaign: | 2016 Republican National Convention |
| Role: | Delegate |
| Location: | Bainbridge, Ga. |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
Alec Poitevint was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Georgia.[1] In the Georgia Republican primary election on March 1, 2016, Donald Trump won 42 delegates, Marco Rubio won 16, and Ted Cruz won 18. Poitevint was bound by state party rules to support Cruz.[2] Cruz suspended his campaign on May 3, 2016. At the time, he had approximately 546 bound delegates. For more on what happened to his delegates, see this page.
Career
Poitevint is the president and chairman of Southeastern Minerals, Inc., a company that produces, sells, and distributes trace mineral products.[3] He is a longtime activist in the Republican Party of Georgia, having served as the party's chairman. During the 2002 election cycle, he chaired Sonny Perdue's (R) gubernatorial campaign; Poitevint served the same role on David Perdue's (R) 2014 U.S. Senate campaign. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has called Poitevint "the ultimate insider in Georgia's Republican Party."[4]
Georgia Republican politics
Poitevint has been involved with Republican candidates for office in Georgia since the early 1990s. He advised Paul Coverdell in his successful campaign fro U.S. Senate in 1992 and was an advisor to former U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R) when Chambliss was in the U.S. House of Representatives.[4]
He has represented the Republican Party of Georgia on the Republican National Committee from 1989 to 2012. He was treasurer for the Republican National Convention in 1992 and 1996 and co-chair of the convention in 2000. In 2012, after former RNC Chairman Michael Steele was replaced by Reince Priebus, Priebus dissolved the six-member team coordinating the convention and placed Poitevint in charge of the arrangements.[4]
In 2010, Poitevint was appointed chair of the board of the Georgia Ports Authority.[5] According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the organization was a bipartisan committee that successfully pursued "hundreds of millions of federal dollars for the dredging of the Port of Savannah."[4]
Presidential election, 2016
During the 2016 presidential election, Poitevint endorsed U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R). In his statement endorsing Rubio, Poitevint said, "Having endured almost eight years of President Obama, Americans are frustrated with the direction of our country. I am one of them. The only way to turn it around and advance our conservative cause is to win in November. I believe the only candidate who can do that is Marco Rubio. His conservative values are second to none."[6]
Board appointments
According to Bloomberg, Poitevint has been in the following corporate board positions:[7]
- Virbac Corporation, Chairman 1997–1999
- American Feed Industry Insurance Company, Chairman beginning 2002
- American Feed Industry Association, Chairman 1994–1995
- National Feed Ingredients Association, Chairman 1988–1989
- First Port City Bank of Bainbridge, Vice chairman beginning 1994
- United Insurance Holdings Corp, Board of directors beginning 2008
- Virbac Corporation, Board of directors beginning 1996
- Georgia Agribusiness Council, Board of directors
- United Insurance Holdings, Board of directors, beginning 2001
- American Feed Industry Insurance Company, Board of directors beginning 1991
- First Port City Bank of Bainbridge, Board of directors beginning 1989
- Poultry Leader Round Table of the Georgia Poultry Federation, Life member
Delegate rules
Delegates from Georgia to the Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and the state convention in June 2016. Delegates from Georgia were "bound" to the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention unless their candidate withdrew from the race after the state primary election—in which case Georgia state law required those delegates to be "unpledged" at the national convention.
Georgia primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Georgia, 2016
| Georgia Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
38.8% | 502,994 | 42 | |
| Marco Rubio | 24.4% | 316,836 | 16 | |
| Ted Cruz | 23.6% | 305,847 | 18 | |
| John Kasich | 5.6% | 72,508 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 6.2% | 80,723 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.6% | 7,686 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 1,486 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 1,146 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0% | 428 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 2,625 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0% | 236 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 2,910 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0% | 539 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,295,964 | 76 | ||
| Source: Georgia Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Georgia had 76 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 42 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 14 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated proportionally; the highest vote-getter in a congressional district received two of that district's delegates, and the second highest vote-getter received the remaining delegate. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a given district, he or she won all three of that district's delegates.[8][9]
Of the remaining 34 delegates, 31 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide vote in order to be eligible to win any of Georgia's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she 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.[8][9]
See also
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
- RNC delegate guidelines from Georgia, 2016
- Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
- Presidential election, 2016
- Presidential candidates, 2016
Footnotes
- ↑ AJC, "These are the Georgians headed to RNC meeting in Cleveland," April 23, 2016
- ↑ Email correspondence with Joseph Brannan on July 15, 2016.
- ↑ SE Minerals, "Southeastern Minerals, Inc.," accessed July 18, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Georgian quietly runs show at Republican National Convention," August 25, 2012
- ↑ International Republican Institute, "Alec L. Poitevint," accessed July 18, 2016
- ↑ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Marco Rubio picks up another establishment Georgia Republican endorsement," February 11, 2016
- ↑ Bloomberg, "Executive Profile: Alec Loyd Poitevint II," accessed July 18, 2016
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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