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Bob Kabel
| Bob Kabel | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Faegre Baker Daniels |
| Role: | Counsel |
| Location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Expertise: | Attorney |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | •Denison University (B.A., 1969) • Vanderbilt University Law School (J.D., 1972) • Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., 1979)[1] |
| Website: | Official website |
Bob Kabel is an attorney with the law firm Faegre Baker Daniels.[1] Kabel was elected in 2016 to a four-year term as the national committeeman of the Republican Party of the District of Columbia.[2]
Kabel was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Washington, D.C. Kabel was one of ten delegates from Washington, D.C., bound by state party rules to support Marco Rubio at the convention.[3] Rubio suspended his campaign on March 15, 2016.
On March 12, 2016, Kabel was elected at the Washington, D.C. Republican Party Convention to serve on the Rules Committee of the 2016 Republican National Convention in July 2016.[4]
Career
Government career
In 1972, shortly after earning his J.D. from Vanderbilt University, Bob Kabel served as an assistant to then-Governor of Tennessee Winfield Dunn.[5][6][1] Kabel later joined the staff of then-Senator Paul Finnin as a legislative assistant in 1975 and remained with Fannin until 1977.[5]
While attending Georgetown University Law Center earning his master of laws degree between 1977 and 1979, Kabel began serving as a legislative assistant for Indiana Senator Richard Lugar (R) for five years.[7][5] Kabel joined President Ronald Reagan's administration in 1982 as a special assistant to the President for the Office of Legislative Affairs.[1] He remained in the position until 1985.[5]
In 1987, Reagan announced Kabel's nomination to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, which Kabel was appointed to in 1988 and served on the commission as a part-time member until 1990.[1]
In 2006, Kabel was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Presidential Advisory Board on HIV-AIDS, which Kabel served on until 2009.[1][2]
Legal career
In 1985, Kabel began his legal career when he became a partner with the firm Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Evans in Washington, D.C.[5] In 2002, Kabel left Manatt et al to serve as a senior advisor and counsel with Faegre Baker Daniels (FBD), a global legal and consulting firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kabel, who still works with FBD, worked out of the firms Washington, D.C. office.[6][1] Kabel focuses primarily on financial sector law, having helped develop the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. On behalf of bank holding companies, Kabel worked with Congressional members to reform the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, to allow bank subsidiary equity firms equal access to the marketplace.[1]
Kabel has also worked with global clients, including helping to extend the Generalized System of Preferences in Brazil, which allows American companies to import Brazilian goods into the U.S. duty free. He worked in Mexico, creating corporate health councils that were aimed at dealing with chronic diseases.[1]
| Bob Kabel gives a speech at a marriage equality rally in front of the Supreme Court in 2013. |
Organizations and boards
Kabel was on the Vanderbilt's Law School Dean's Council from 1998 to 2001. In 2005, Kabel served on the board of trustees for his undergraduate alma mater, Denison University, where continued to serve until 2010.[6][1] In 2013, Kabel founded ConsejoSano, which is a health and mental wellness organization for Spanish-speakers in the U.S. Kabel also served as the chief financial officer of the organization.[6]
Republican Party
In 1993, Kabel was a founding member and chairman of the Log Cabin Republicans, the largest gay Republican group in the U.S. He remained with the group until 1999, when he became chair of the Liberty Education Forum, the Log Cabin Republicans' think tank.[7][8][2]
In 2005, Kabel was elected chairman of the Republican Party of the District of Columbia. Kabel was the first openly gay person to chair a state Republican Party.[7] He had served as the vice chair of the District party from 2001 to 2004.[1] In 2012, Kabel was elected as national committeeman for the D.C. GOP.[9] Kabel has also served on the Rules Committees and the Ethics Committees in past Republican National Conventions.[1]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Kabel was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Washington, D.C.
Roll call vote
In the roll call vote that took place at the convention on July 19, 2016, the D.C. delegation reported 10 votes for Marco Rubio and nine votes for John Kasich in accordance with the results of the District's 2016 Republican caucuses. The convention secretary, however, recorded all 19 votes from the D.C. delegation for Donald Trump. Ballotpedia spoke with Kabel at the convention, and he said that it was the D.C. delegation’s understanding up until July 19 that all parties involved had agreed that the D.C. delegates would cast 10 votes for Rubio and nine votes for Kasich. The Trump campaign, he noted, was fine with the arrangement, especially since Trump had secured the 1,237 votes needed to win the nomination without D.C.’s 19 votes. The sudden reversal on the convention floor during the roll call vote “blindsided” the delegation, Kabel told Ballotpedia, but he emphasized that the root cause was not maliciousness but rather “miscommunication.”
Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
On March 12, 2016, Bob Kabel was elected at the Washington, D.C. Republican Party Convention to serve on the Rules Committee of the 2016 Republican National Convention in July 2016.[4]
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.
Delegate rules
At-large delegates from Washington, D.C., to the Republican National Convention were elected at a district convention on March 12, 2016. DC GOP bylaws stipulated that district delegates were bound to their candidate on the first ballot at the convention. If a candidate who was allotted delegates at the district convention withdrew prior to the national convention, his or her delegates were to become unpledged. If only one candidate's name was placed in nomination at the national convention, DC GOP bylaws stipulated that all district delegates were to vote for that candidate, provided that that candidate won delegates in the district primary election.
D.C. Caucus results
| Washington, D.C. Republican Caucus, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Marco Rubio |
37.3% | 1,059 | 10 | |
| John Kasich | 35.5% | 1,009 | 9 | |
| Donald Trump | 13.8% | 391 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 12.4% | 351 | 0 | |
| Other | 1% | 29 | 0 | |
| Totals | 2,839 | 19 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Politico | ||||
Delegate allocation
Washington, D.C., had 19 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 16 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 15 percent of the district-wide vote in order to be eligible to receive any delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[10][11]
Recent news
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See also
- Marco Rubio
- Donald Trump
- RNC Rules Committee, 2016
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- Richard Lugar
- Ronald Reagan
- George W. Bush
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Faegre Baker Daniels, "Robert Kabel, accessed April 13, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 DC GOP, "Bob Kabel," accessed April 13, 2016
- ↑ D.C. Republican Party Facebook Page, "Revised list of delegates with binding," March 22, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ballotpedia:Charles Aull, Email communication with DC GOP Executive Director Patrick Mara," April 12, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 The American Presidency Project, "Nomination of Robert J. Kabel To Be a Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States," accessed April 13, 2016
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 LinkedIn, "Robert Kabel," accessed April 13, 2016
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 The Washington Post, "D.C. GOP Chooses a Gay Chairman," December 16, 2004
- ↑ GOP, "Bob Kabel," accessed April 13, 2016
- ↑ FBD, "Bob Kabel of FaegreBD Consulting Elected to Republican National Committee," April 18, 2012
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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