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Chanel Prunier
| Chanel Prunier | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Massachusetts |
| Role: | Former National Committeewoman |
| Location: | Massachusetts |
Chanel Prunier was the national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Massachusetts. She was succeeded by Keiko Orrall.[1][2]
Career
Professional career
Prunier is the owner of Legacy 81 Consulting located in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. As of 2016, she has also served as the executive director of the Renew MA Coalition since 2006.[3] She is the executive director of the Coalition for Marriage and Family, which is a nonprofit advocacy group located in Massachusetts.[4]
Political activity
Prunier was previously the national committeeman for the Republican Party of Massachusetts. She was first elected in May 2013 and served in the position until July 2016. She has held leadership positions in the MA College Republicans, MA Federation of Young Republicans, and MA Republican Assembly. In 2005, she founded the MA Republican Municipal PAC, which was designed to help local Republican candidates.[4][2]
Prunier was the campaign manager of the Coffey for Senate campaign from April to November 2004. She also served as the field director for the Brown for Senate campaign from November 2003 to March 2004. From 2002 to 2003, Prunier worked as a policy analyst for the Massachusetts State House.[3]
2016 presidential election
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Prunier was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Massachusetts.
Delegate rules
District-level delegates from Massachusetts were elected at congressional district caucuses, while at-large delegates were elected by the Massachusetts Republican State Committee. At-large delegate candidates were required to "express a commitment to a qualifying Presidential candidate" prior to their election as delegates. Massachusetts delegates stipulated bound to the candidate to whom they pledged their support through the first round of voting at the national convention. State party bylaws in 2016 stipulated that if a presidential candidate "dies, withdraws, or changes his party registration" prior to the convention, his or her delegates "shall go to the convention unpledged."
Massachusetts primary results
| Massachusetts Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
49% | 312,425 | 22 | |
| Marco Rubio | 17.7% | 113,170 | 8 | |
| Ted Cruz | 9.5% | 60,592 | 4 | |
| John Kasich | 17.9% | 114,434 | 8 | |
| Ben Carson | 2.6% | 16,360 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 1% | 6,559 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.3% | 1,906 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 1,864 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.2% | 1,153 | 0 | |
| Jim Gilmore | 0.1% | 753 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.1% | 709 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0.1% | 500 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0% | 293 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.4% | 2,325 | 0 | |
| No preference | 0.5% | 3,220 | 0 | |
| Blank votes | 0.2% | 1,440 | 0 | |
| Totals | 637,703 | 42 | ||
| Source: Massachusetts Elections Division and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Massachusetts had 42 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). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's district delegates.[5][6]
Of the remaining 15 delegates, 12 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to at least 5 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to win any 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.[5][6]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Massachusetts Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ballotpedia Staff, "Phone interview with Massachusetts Republican Party staff," June 3, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 LinkedIn, "Chanel Prunier," accessed June 6, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 GOP.com, "Chanel Prunier," accessed June 6, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
