Brad Courtney
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| Brad Courtney | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Wisconsin |
| Role: | Chair |
| Location: | Wisconsin |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | Vanderbilt University |
| Website: | Official website |
Brad Courtney previously served as the chair of the Republican Party of Wisconsin.[1]
Career
Courtney attended Vanderbilt University. He was elected in 2011 to serve as the chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin. Prior to that, Courtney served the Republican Party of Wisconsin as "the first vice chairman, the convention chairman, the candidate campaign chairman, the district leadership chairman, and as a member of the state executive committee. He has also served as the chairman and vice chairman of the North Shore Republican Club." Additionally, Courtney is the chairman of the Sensenbrenner Committee Fifth District Republican Party.[2]
Courtney has served as a delegate on the Platform Committee and on the Rules Committee for previous Republican National Conventions. He worked with Scott Walker as the finance chairman for Walker's county executive campaign and as a senior advisor for Walker's 2010 campaign for governor.[2]
Since 1982, Courtney has worked as a sales representative at Courtney Industrial Battery. In 2011, he became the co-owner and president of Courtney Industrial Battery.[2][3]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Courtney was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Wisconsin. Courtney was one of 36 delegates from Wisconsin bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz at the convention.[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.
Delegate rules
At-large delegates from Wisconsin to the Republican National Convention were selected by a committee formed by the candidate who received a plurality of the statewide vote in the state presidential primary election and ratified by the State Executive Committee. For district-level delegates, the district chairman of each district compiled a list of delegates from which the presidential candidate who won a plurality of the vote in that district selected three delegates. Delegates from Wisconsin were bound to a candidate on all ballots at the convention unless the candidate released them or failed to receive one-third of the vote on a ballot.
Wisconsin primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Wisconsin, 2016
| Wisconsin Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Ted Cruz |
48.2% | 531,129 | 36 | |
| Donald Trump | 35.1% | 386,290 | 6 | |
| John Kasich | 14.1% | 155,200 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.3% | 3,156 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.5% | 5,608 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 1,310 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 825 | 0 | |
| Jim Gilmore | 0% | 242 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.1% | 1,428 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 2,491 | 0 | |
| Marco Rubio | 1% | 10,569 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0% | 510 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.2% | 2,288 | 0 | |
| Totals | 1,101,046 | 42 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Wisconsin Vote | ||||
Delegate allocation
Wisconsin had 42 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 24 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's eight congressional districts). District delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis; the candidate who won a plurality of the vote in a congressional district received all of that district's delegates.[5][6]
Of the remaining 18 delegates, 15 served at large. Wisconsin's at-large delegates were allocated on a winner-take-all basis. The candidate who won a plurality of the statewide vote 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]
Top influencers by state
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In 2016, Ballotpedia identified Brad Courtney 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
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Brad Courtney stepping down as Wisconsin Republican Party chairman," accessed December 6, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 GOP, "Wisconsin Leadership, Brad Courtney," accessed April 15, 2016
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Brad Courtney," accessed April 15, 2016
- ↑ Wisconsin State Journal, "Wisconsin GOP releases list of all 42 delegates to Republican National Convention," April 27, 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 Cite error: Invalid
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