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Dudley Brown

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Dudley Brown
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Basic facts
Organization:Rocky Mountain Gun Owners
Role:Executive director
Location:Windsor, Colo.
Education:Colorado State University

Dudley Brown is a gun-rights activist from Colorado who works as the executive director of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, a "no compromises" advocacy group for gun rights.[1] Brown is also the president of the National Association for Gun Rights, a national organization with a similar political stance on firearms.[2]

Brown was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Colorado. Brown was one of 30 delegates from Colorado initially bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz at the convention. Colorado's delegates were later released since Cruz withdrew from the race.[3][4] 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

Dudley Brown worked in a number of positions in Colorado politics, including as a media director for the Republican Caucus of the Colorado House of Representatives. He founded Rocky Mountain Gun Owners in 1996 after working for the Firearms Coalition of Colorado and the Colorado State Shooting Association.[5] The group describes itself as a "no compromise" gun rights organization.[6] The group also maintains a pro-gun PAC.[7]

Brown exerts influence in Colorado through mailers and negative advertisements during election season through the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. An August 2013 profile in 5280 Magazine described how Brown warned incoming Colorado Republicans that a vote for anti-gun legislation would result in negative mailers during the next election: "I told them, 'Vote for one of these bills, and you’re vulnerable. We will hold you accountable.' That pisses people off. Well, I don’t care. If I wanted friends, I’d buy a puppy. We want to change the public policy in Colorado."[8]

In 2015, the Colorado State Legislature considered amending a 2013 law that limited magazines to 15 rounds. The 2015 legislature wanted to increase the limit to 30 rounds. Brown rejected the notion on the grounds that there should be no limit at all, and his stance was sharply criticized by other state gun rights advocates. Jon Caldara of the Independence Institute called Brown a "bully."[9] Caldara added, "By Rocky Mountain Gun Owners' logic, D-Day was a compromise that shouldn't have happened because it didn't automatically repeal fascism."[10]

2016 Republican National Convention

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016

Brown was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Colorado. Brown was bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz.[11]

Delegate rules

See also: RNC delegate guidelines from Colorado, 2016 and Republican delegates from Colorado, 2016

At-large and congressional district delegates from Colorado to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions and at the state convention. 2016 Colorado GOP bylaws did not require delegates to pledge their support to a specific candidate. If a delegate chose to pledge his or her support, however, Colorado GOP bylaws stipulated that the delegate was bound to the candidate to whom he or she pledged their support on their intent-to-run form through the first round of voting at the national convention unless released by the candidate or if the candidate's name was not placed on the nominating ballot.

Colorado caucus

See also: Presidential election in Colorado, 2016

In August 2015, the Colorado GOP cancelled its presidential preference poll, which was scheduled to coincide with the Republican caucuses on March 1, 2016. According to The Denver Post, the Republican executive committee "voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state's delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote." Colorado Republicans still sent delegates to the Republican National Convention in July 2016. District-level and at-large delegates (34) were bound according to the preferred candidates indicated on their intent-to-run forms. RNC delegates (3) were unbound, meaning that they did not have to pledge their support to a given candidate.[12] Though Republican precinct caucuses were held on March 1 in Colorado, Colorado Republican National Convention delegates were chosen at district conventions and the Colorado state GOP convention in April.[13] Colorado Republican Party rules required participants in the district conventions and statewide convention to have participated in the precinct caucuses.[14]

Delegate allocation

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016 and 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
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Colorado had 37 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). Thirteen delegates served at large. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as delegates to the Republican National Convention.[15][16]

In 2015, the Republican Party of Colorado decided not to conduct a presidential preference poll in 2016. As a result, according to the Republican National Committee, all delegates were bound according to the preferred candidates indicated on their intent-to-run forms. RNC delegates were unbound, meaning that they did not have to pledge their support to a given candidate.[15][17]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 5280 Magazine, "Has Dudley Brown Finally Gone Too Far?" April 21, 2015
  2. ↑ National Association for Gun Rights, "Staff," accessed January 20, 2016
  3. ↑ The Journal, "Colorado delegates back Cruz over Trump," July 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Colorado GOP, "CO GOP 2016 State Convention Results," accessed April 25, 2016
  5. ↑ Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, "Staff," accessed October 13, 2015
  6. ↑ Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, "Home," accessed October 13, 2015
  7. ↑ RMGO Political Action Committee, "Home," accessed October 13, 2015
  8. ↑ 5280 Magazine, "Dudley Brown's War," August 2013
  9. ↑ Greeley Tribune, "Caldara: Stand up to Dudley Brown's gun-rights bullying," May 6, 2015
  10. ↑ Denver Post, "Colorado gun allies split over compromise on increasing magazine limit," April 10, 2015
  11. ↑ Colorado GOP, "CO GOP 2016 State Convention Results," accessed April 25, 2016
  12. ↑ The Denver Post, "Colorado Republicans cancel presidential vote at 2016 caucus," August 25, 2015
  13. ↑ Colorado GOP, "Caucus/Assembly/Convention 2016," January 19, 2016
  14. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named wsj
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
  16. ↑ CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
  17. ↑ The Denver Post, "Colorado Republicans cancel presidential vote at 2016 caucus," August 25, 2015
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