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Paul Braswell
Paul Braswell was a 2012 Republican candidate for District 67 of the Texas House of Representatives.
Campaign themes
Braswell's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[1]
FISCAL CONSERVATIVE
- Excerpt: "Government can and must provide critical services, but runaway entitlements, waste, fraud and abuse can be controlled and reduced. Texans deserve a fiscally responsible state government and I will fight for it."
ECONOMIC GROWTH
- Excerpt: "As a small business owner from Montague County, I will support Texas’ small businesses by reducing regulation, burdens and costs so they can grow and hire more Texans."
FIGHT TAX INCREASES
- Excerpt: "Texas is constitutionally required to balance its budget each biennium, and I will work to achieve a balanced budget without imposing additional taxes or fees on Texans."
EDUCATION IS A LOCAL ISSUE
- Excerpt: "I will support efforts to eliminate unfunded mandates of education and increase local control. I will also support efforts to increase competition in our education system by giving parents greater choices."
SUPPORT PROPERTY RIGHTS
- Excerpt: "The right to own property is a sacred right proscribed to us in the Declaration of Independence. These property rights must be protected at the state level."
Elections
2012
Braswell ran in the 2012 election for Texas House of Representatives, District 67. Braswell was defeated by Trent McKnight and Drew Springer in the May 29 primary election.[2][3]
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
|---|---|---|
 Trent McKnight (advanced to runoff) |
49% | 9,226 |
| Drew Springer (advanced to runoff) |
34.5% | 6,498 |
| David Isbell | 9.8% | 1,842 |
| Paul Braswell | 6.7% | 1,261 |
| Total Votes | 18,827 | |
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
| Paul Braswell | |
| Republican National Convention, 2016 | |
| Status: | District-level delegate |
| Congressional district: | 13 |
| State: | Texas |
| Bound to: | Donald Trump |
| Delegates to the RNC 2016 | |
| Calendar and delegate rules overview • Types of delegates • Delegate rules by state • State election law and delegates • Delegates by state | |
Braswell was a district-level delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Texas. Braswell was one of 48 delegates from Texas bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention.[4] 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.
Delegate rules
At-large delegates from Texas to the national convention were selected by a state nominations committee and approved by the Texas State GOP Convention in May 2016. District-level delegates were elected by congressional districts at the state convention and then approved by the convention as a whole. At the national convention, all delegates were bound on the first ballot unless their candidate withdrew from the race or released his or her delegates. A delegate remained bound on the second ballot if his or her candidate received at least 20 percent of the total vote on the first ballot. On the third and subsequent ballots, all delegates were to become unbound.
Texas primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Texas, 2016
| Texas Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Jeb Bush | 1.2% | 35,420 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 4.2% | 117,969 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 3,448 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz |
43.8% | 1,241,118 | 104 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 3,247 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0.1% | 1,706 | 0 | |
| Elizabeth Gray | 0.2% | 5,449 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 6,226 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 4.2% | 120,473 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 8,000 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 17.7% | 503,055 | 3 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 2,006 | 0 | |
| Donald Trump | 26.8% | 758,762 | 48 | |
| Other | 1% | 29,609 | 0 | |
| Totals | 2,836,488 | 155 | ||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Texas had 155 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 108 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's 36 congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the primary vote in a district in order to be eligible to receive any of that district's delegates. If only one candidate met the 20 percent threshold in a district, he or she won all of the district's delegates. If two candidates met this threshold, the first place finisher received two of the district's delegates; the second place finisher received the remaining delegate. If no candidate won 20 percent of the vote, the top three finishers in a district each received one of the district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in a district, he or she received all of the district's delegates.[5][6]
Of the remaining 47 delegates, 44 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. If only one candidate broke the 20 percent threshold, the second place finisher still received a portion of the state's at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she received all 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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- All stories may not be relevant to this legislator due to the nature of the search engine.
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ texansforbraswell.com - Issues
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "2012 Election and Candidate Information," accessed June 12, 2012
- ↑ Office of the (Texas) Secretary of State, "Race Summary Report," accessed July 12, 2012
- ↑ Texas GOP, "National Convention," May 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
