Jonelle Fulmer
| Jonelle Fulmer | |||
| Basic facts | |||
| Organization: | Republican Party of Arkansas | ||
| Role: | Chair | ||
| Location: | Arkansas | ||
| Expertise: | Politics | ||
| Affiliation: | Republican | ||
| Education: | University of Arkansas (B.A., interpreting of the deaf, 1983)[1] | ||
| Website: | Official website | ||
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Jonelle Fulmer was elected chair of the Republican Party of Arkansas in December 2020. She also served as national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Arkansas from 2012 to 2020.[2][3]
Career
Political career
In 1996, Jonelle Fulmer began serving as the finance director for Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.), intially working on his congressional campaign, and she continued to serve as Hutchinson's finance director in his re-election campaigns and as a consultant on his failed 2006 bid for governor of Arkansas.[1]
Fulmer served as a PAC director for the Americans for Law and Liberty PAC from 1999 until 2001. Shortly thereafter, Fulmer established her own political consulting firm, JDS Political Management Company, where she was the managing director for just over two years.[1] In 2005, she took up the position of director for A Secure American PAC; she remains the director of the PAC.[1]
State Republican Party
In December 2020, Fulmer was elected chair of the Republican Party of Arkansas.[3] She also served as national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Arkansas from 2012 to 2020.[2] Previously, Fulmer worked as the state party's assistant secretary.[2][4] She has also been the president and secretary of the Sebastian County Republican Women as well as served on the board of directors of the National Federation of Republican Women. Fulmer was the first vice president of the Arkansas Federation of Republican Women.[2]
2016 presidential election
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Fulmer was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Arkansas. Arkansas sent 40 delegates to the national convention. Sixteen delegates from Arkansas were pledged to Donald Trump; fifteen were pledged to Ted Cruz; and nine delegates were pledged to Marco Rubio. Ballotpedia was not able to identify to which candidates Arkansas' three RNC delegates—Doyle Webb, Jonathan Barnett, and Fulmer—were allocated.
Delegate rules
Congressional district delegates from Arkansas to the Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions in April 2016, while at-large delegates were elected by the Arkansas Republican State Committee at a state convention in May 2016. Arkansas GOP rules in 2016 required delegates to the convention to vote for the candidate whom they designated on their delegate-filing form through the first round of voting. The rules allowed delegates to vote for a different candidate on the first ballot only if their designated candidate released them prior to the first round of voting or if their designated candidate "withdrew" from the race.
Arkansas primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Arkansas, 2016
| Arkansas Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
32.8% | 133,144 | 16 | |
| Ted Cruz | 30.5% | 123,873 | 15 | |
| Marco Rubio | 24.9% | 101,235 | 9 | |
| Ben Carson | 5.7% | 23,173 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 3.7% | 15,098 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 1.2% | 4,703 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.6% | 2,406 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 1,127 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 651 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 409 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 286 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0.1% | 250 | 0 | |
| Bobby Jindal | 0% | 167 | 0 | |
| Totals | 406,522 | 40 | ||
| Source: The New York Times | ||||
Delegate allocation
Arkansas had 40 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 12 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's four congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; the highest vote-getter in a district received two of that district's delegates, and the second highest vote-getter received the remaining delegate. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a district, he or she received all three of that district's delegates.[5][6]
Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 15 percent of the statewide vote in order to receive any at-large delegates. Each candidate who met the 15 percent threshold received one delegate. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she was allocated the remaining at-large delegates. If no candidate won a majority of the statewide vote, the unallocated at-large delegates were divided proportionally among those candidates who met the 15 percent threshold. 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]
Recent news
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See also
- Arkansas
- Republican Party of Arkansas
- Republican National Committee
- Republican National Convention, 2016
- Asa Hutchinson
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 LinkedIn, "Jonelle Fulmer," accessed April 19, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 GOP, "Jonelle Fulmer," accessed April 19, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, "Fort Smith woman voted in as state GOP chief," December 14, 2020
- ↑ Arkansas GOP, "Leadership," accessed April 19, 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
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