Janet Fogarty
| Janet Fogarty | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Blue Sky Global Capital |
| Role: | President |
| Location: | Boston, Mass. |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | University of Southern California |
Janet Fogarty was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Massachusetts.[1] Fogarty served on the Rules Committee of the convention in July 2016. She was a delegate for Donald Trump.[2]
Career
After graduating from the University of Southern California, Janet Fogarty began working in the private banking sector, holding jobs with Washington Mutual, as a vice president at Citibank, and as a mortgage banker with Wells Fargo. She joined Blue Sky Global Capital, a commercial financing group, in 2014 and serves as the organization's president.[3]
Fogarty's past political activity includes service as the chair of the Republican Town Committees in Scituate and Cohasset, Massachusetts.[4] She has worked on the finance committees of Sen. Scott Brown (R), Gov. Charlie Baker (R), and Gov. Mitt Romney (R).[5][6]
In the Republican Party of Massachusetts, Fogarty is a state committeewoman representing the Plymouth-Norfolk Senate District. She also serves as the chair of the GOP8 PAC, a state-level political action committee that supports Republican candidates in Massachusetts' 8th Congressional District.[7] She has attended the national convention before, as an alternate delegate for Romney in 2012.[8]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Fogarty was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Massachusetts.
Rules committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Fogarty 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.[9]
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.
Comments on presidential candidates
In March 2016, Fogarty spoke with NECN, telling the station that she would support the Republican nominee. Fogarty also expressed reservations about the three candidates who remained in the race at the time. Of Donald Trump, Fogarty said she would like to see him "act more presidential."[10]
In an April 2016 interview with Vincent Errichetti, Fogarty expressed her support for Trump, saying, "The issues that [Trump] stands for are solid. They not be appealing to far-right conservatives just as they wouldn't be to far-left liberals, but I think as we see in a general election up against Hillary [Clinton], he is really the one candidate that is going to bring the country together, unify the country, and bring back our self-esteem as a country."[2]
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.[11][12]
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.[11][12]
Top influencers by state
Influencers in American politics are power players who help get candidates elected, put through policy proposals, cause ideological changes, and affect popular perceptions. They can take on many forms: politicians, lobbyists, advisors, donors, corporations, industry groups, labor unions, single-issue organizations, nonprofits, to name a few.
In 2016, Ballotpedia identified Janet Fogarty as a top influencer by state. We identified top influencers across the country through several means, including the following:
- Local knowledge of our professional staff
- Surveys of activists, thought leaders and journalists from across the country and political spectrum
- Outreach to political journalists in each state who helped refine our lists
Recent news
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External links
See also
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules
- RNC delegate guidelines from Massachusetts, 2016
- Republican delegate rules by state, 2016
- Presidential election, 2016
- Presidential candidates, 2016
Footnotes
- ↑ Massachusetts Republican Party, "State Committee," June 27, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Political Reality with Vincent Errichetti, "Interview with Janet Fogarty," May 4, 2016
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Janet Fogarty," accessed June 28, 2016
- ↑ Red Mass Group, "Scituate RTC Chair Janet Fogarty—a heartfelt apology!" March 15, 2010
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedli - ↑ Wicked Local Norwell, "Republicans to host governor at St. Patrick's Day celebration," March 7, 2016
- ↑ Ballotpedia, "Email communication with Janet Fogarty," June 29, 2016
- ↑ Ballotpedia, "Email communication with Janet Fogarty," June 30, 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
- ↑ NECN, "Mass. Republicans Will Back Nominee Even if Candidates Won’t" March 31, 2016
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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