Lucien Smith
Lucien Smith was a 2011 Republican candidate for Mississippi Treasurer. He is an adjunct professor of law at Mississippi College. Smith came in third in the August 2 Republican primary.
Smith's campaign website described him as "a life-long Republican committed to the principles of fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets." He previously served as a budget adviser and legal counsel to former Governor Haley Barbour.[1]
Elections
2011
Smith faced Lynn Fitch and Lee Yancey in the Republican Primary on August 2, coming in third.
Republican primary
| Treasurer -- Republican primary results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote Percentage | |
| Republican Party |  Lynn Fitch
|
38% | |
| Republican Party | Lee Yancey
|
34% | |
| Republican Party | Lucien Smith | 29% | |
| Total Votes | 269,726 | ||
Issues
On his website Smith listed six issues he would address if elected treasurer:[2]
- "stand up to politicians more interested in their politics than protecting our tax dollars and will fight against out-of-control spending and dishonest budgeting."
- "prevent the state from running up the credit card with bad debt that our children and grandchildren will be forced to pay off."
- "continue conservatively managing our state's finances, so taxes do not go up."
- "immediately address the Public Employees Retirement System's finances, to ensure the system remains solvent for our retirees without becoming a burden to taxpayers."
- "ensure the MPACT prepaid college tuition program remains open for our children without requiring a taxpayer bailout."
- "work to eliminate government waste and make government operate more efficiently, at a lower cost to the taxpayers."
Campaign advertisements
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Smith was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Mississippi.[3] In Mississippi’s presidential primary election on March 8, 2016, Donald Trump won 25 delegates, and Ted Cruz won 15 delegates. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Smith was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Mississippi's Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[4]
Delegate rules
Delegates from Mississippi to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected at district caucuses and the state convention in May 2016. Mississippi GOP bylaws required candidates for delegate positions to submit a written declaration stating "which candidate that person will be bound to support on the floor of the Republican National Convention." Delegates from Mississippi were bound to the candidate to whom they were allocated unless released by their candidate via public statement or in writing.
Mississippi primary results
| Mississippi Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.4% | 1,697 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 1.4% | 5,626 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 493 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 36.1% | 150,364 | 15 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 224 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0% | 172 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.3% | 1,067 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 8.8% | 36,795 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0% | 135 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 643 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 5.3% | 21,885 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 510 | 0 | |
 Donald Trump |
47.2% | 196,659 | 25 | |
| Totals | 416,270 | 40 | ||
| Source: Mississippi Secretary of State and The New York Times | ||||
Delegate allocation
Mississippi 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). Mississippi's district-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis. The first place finisher in a district won two of that district's delegates while the second place finisher received one.[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 primary vote in order to be eligible to receive 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]
Recent news
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See also
External links
- Official campaign website
- Facebook Campaign page
- Lucien Smith on Twitter
- Biography from Project Vote Smart
Footnotes
- ↑ Lucien Smith for Treasurer, "About," accessed July 16, 2011
- ↑ Lucien Smith for Treasurer, "About," accessed July 16, 2011
- ↑ Mississippi GOP, "Mississippi Republican Party Has Successful State Convention," May 16, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 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 Cite error: Invalid
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