Cindy Costa
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| Cindy Costa | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of South Carolina |
| Role: | National Committeewoman |
| Location: | Charleston, South Carolina |
| Expertise: | Business |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Website: | Official website |
Cindy Costa is the national committeewoman of the Republican Party of South Carolina.[1]
Costa was an automatic delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from South Carolina. She was one of 50 delegates from South Carolina bound to support Donald Trump on the first ballot.[2][3] 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
Cindy Costa is the business manager for the Southeastern Facial Plastic/Cosmetic Surgery Center in Charleston, South Carolina. She is also a licensed real state agent and a former 1996 Mrs. South Carolina.[4] Costa founded and chairs the South Carolina Winning Women Excellence in Public Service Series.[1]
Political activity
In 2002, George W. Bush appointed Costa to the United Nations as a U.S. Public Delegate.[1][4] In 2012, Costa was a supporter of then Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney; she helped the former Massachusetts Governor campaign in South Carolina.[5]
State Republican Party
Costa was elected as national committeewoman for the Republican Party of South Carolina in 1996. She is a member of the Republican Speaker’s Circle, the Charleston County Republican Party, and the Greater Lowcountry Republican Club. She served as the third vice Chairman of the Charleston County Republican Party and, later, was the party's secretary. Costa was the vice chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party and executive committeewoman for James Island Precinct.[1] She has been awarded South Carolina Republican of the Year in 2000 by the NRCC and Republican Women of the Year for South Carolina by the South Carolina Republican Women’s Caucus.[1]
Costa has been to six Republican National Conventions. In 2012, she was on the convention's Site Selection Committee. She was the vice chair of the RNC Standing Committee on the Rules. She is on the RNC Executive Committee from the Southern Region.[1] Costa won re-election as the national committeewoman in May 2016, and served as a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention.[6]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Costa was an automatic delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from South Carolina.
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Costa 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.[7]
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
In South Carolina, national delegates were selected at congressional district conventions and the South Carolina Republican State Convention. State party rules allocated each congressional district's three delegates to the presidential candidate who received the most votes in that district. At-large delegates were allocated to the winner of the statewide primary. All delegates were bound for the first ballot at the Republican National Convention.
South Carolina primary results
| South Carolina Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
32.5% | 240,882 | 50 | |
| Marco Rubio | 22.5% | 166,565 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 22.3% | 165,417 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 7.8% | 58,056 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 7.6% | 56,410 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 7.2% | 53,551 | 0 | |
| Totals | 740,881 | 50 | ||
| Source: South Carolina State Election Commission | ||||
Delegate allocation
South Carolina had 50 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 21 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's seven congressional districts). South Carolina's district-level delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the plurality of the vote in a given congressional district was allocated all three of that district's delegates.[8][9]
Of the remaining 29 delegates, 26 served at large. South Carolina's at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won the greatest number of votes statewide received all 26 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 pledged to support the candidate who won the South Carolina primary.[8][9]
Recent news
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See also
- South Carolina
- Republican Party of South Carolina
- Republican National Committee
- George W. Bush
- Donald Trump
- Mitt Romney
- Republican National Convention, 2016
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 GOP, "Cindy Costa," accessed May 10, 2016
- ↑ South Carolina Republican Party, "2016 National Convention Delegate/Alternate Election Results," May 7, 2016
- ↑ The Post and Courier, "No single candidate may end up with all of South Carolina’s delegates," February 19, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Southeastern Facial Plastic/Cosmetic Surgery Center, "Staff," accessed May 10, 2016
- ↑ CNN, "Evangelical for Mitt: A South Carolina power broker promotes the frontrunner," January 18, 2016
- ↑ S.C. GOP, "Press Release: Cindy Costa & Glenn McCall re-elected as SCGOP National Committeewoman, Committeeman," May 7, 2016
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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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