John Ryder
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| John Ryder | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican National Committee |
| Role: | Chief counsel |
| Location: | Memphis, Tennessee |
| Expertise: | Attorney |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | •Wabash College (B.A., 1971) •Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1974)[1] |
| Website: | Official website |
John Ryder has been chief counsel for the Republican National Committee (RNC) since 2013.[2] Ryder is a former national committeeman of the Republican Party of Tennessee.[3]
In 2009, Ryder also served as the chair of the RNC Redistricting Committee, which headed up the party's national campaign to redraw districts.[4]
Ryder was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Tennessee. Ryder was one of 33 delegates from Tennessee bound by state party rules to support Donald Trump at the convention.[5] 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.
Career
Legal career
Ryder has served as an assistant county attorney for Shelby County, Tennessee. He also worked as a delinquent tax attorney for the county. In 2000, Ryder joined the law firm Harris Shelton. He specializes in bankruptcy, workouts, commercial litigation, and election law.[1] Ryder serves the county of Shelby as litigation counsel for the election commission. Ryder teaches election law at Vanderbilt University.[1]
Redistricting, 2010
In 2009, Ryder was appointed by then-GOP Chairman Michael Steele to chair the Republican Party's National Redistricting Committee. At the time, Ryder had already helped in early redistricting efforts by the RNC in the early 1990s and early 2000s.[4] Ryder's job was to assess election results and census data, which was the basis for redistricting maps and was especially important for determining congressional battlegrounds.[6]
Republican Party
Ryder first became the national committeeman for the Republican Party of Tennessee in 1996 and remained the committeeman until 2004. He returned to the position in 2008 and served until 2016.[7] Ryder served on the Republican National Committee Presidential Nominating Schedule Committee. At the Republican National Convention, Ryder was a delegate in 1984, 2004, 2008, and 2012. Ryder has served on the RNC Standing Committee on Rules for the convention.[7] In 2013, Ryder was appointed the chief counsel for the RNC by Chairman Reince Priebus.[7][2][8]
According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Lambert, a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention, was pledged to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.[9][10][11] Darren Morris, Trump's state director in Tennessee, took some issue with Ryder, stating that Ryder was "a nice guy, but he's a counsel for the RNC and they're the ones out to get Donald Trump now, so I'm not supercrazy about the possibility."[10]
In March 2016, Bruce Ash, chairman of the Republican National Convention RNC Standing Committee on Rules, attacked Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus via email, accusing the chairman of blocking the Standing Rules Committee from changing the convention rules, which "would make it harder to reopen the GOP nomination fight at a contested convention."[12] The proposal made by Ash would change the rule book governing the convention from the long-used rules of the U.S. House of Representatives to Robert’s Rules of Order. The spring meeting agenda, where Ash and others proposed to introduce their change, excluded the proposal. Ash responded by writing, "I am now informing all of our [Standing Rules] committee members of this incident and insist Solomon’s [Yue] amendment was pre-submitted and will be given priority consideration at the Standing Rules Committee when we meet next week."[12] Ryder responded by stating that "[e]specially in the middle of the current primary contest, it is important that the RNC not take action that can be interpreted as attempting to favor one candidate or another. Major changes now are dangerous and not a good idea, in my humble opinion."[12]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Ryder was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Tennessee.
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Ryder 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.[13]
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.
Delegate rules
Delegates from Tennessee to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected directly by voters in the state primary election in March and approved by the State Executive Committee of the Tennessee Republican Party in April. Delegates from Tennessee to the national convention were bound for up to four ballots. All Tennessee delegates were bound on the first two ballots. On the third ballot, a presidential candidate needed to receive at least 20 percent of the total vote for his or her delegates to remain bound on the fourth ballot. Delegates were to be unbound after the fourth ballot.
Tennessee primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Tennessee, 2016
| Tennessee Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Donald Trump |
38.9% | 332,823 | 33 | |
| Ted Cruz | 24.7% | 211,234 | 16 | |
| Marco Rubio | 21.2% | 181,059 | 9 | |
| Ben Carson | 7.6% | 64,855 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 5.3% | 45,258 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 1.1% | 9,548 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.3% | 2,418 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.3% | 2,349 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.2% | 1,849 | 0 | |
| Chris Christie | 0.1% | 1,254 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 717 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 713 | 0 | |
| Jim Gilmore | 0% | 269 | 0 | |
| Lindsey Graham | 0% | 257 | 0 | |
| George Pataki | 0% | 189 | 0 | |
| Totals | 854,792 | 58 | ||
| Source: Tennessee Secretary of State and CNN | ||||
Delegate allocation
Tennessee had 58 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 20 percent of the district vote in order to be eligible to receive any of a district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 66 percent of the vote in a district, he or she received all of the district's delegates. If the winning candidate in a district won between 20 and 66 percent of the district vote, he or she received two of the district's delegates; the second place finisher received the remaining delegate (if the second place finisher did not meet the 20 percent threshold, all three delegates were allocated to the first place finisher). If no candidate met the 20 percent threshold in a district, the top three finishers each received one of the district's delegates.[14][15]
Of the remaining 31 delegates, 28 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 at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 66 percent of the statewide primary 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.[14][15]
Recent news
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See also
- Tennessee
- Republican Party of Tennessee
- Republican National Committee
- State Legislative and Congressional Redistricting after the 2010 Census
- Redistricting
- Donald Trump
- RNC Standing Committee on Rules
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, "John Ryder," accessed April 25, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Memphis Flyer, "John Ryder Named General Counsel of RNC," February 7, 2013
- ↑ Republican Party of Tennessee, "State Executive Committee," accessed April 25, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Memphis Flyer, "Memphian Ryder Named to Head National GOP Redistricting Effort," May 17, 2009
- ↑ TN GOP, "TNGOP Confirms Final Slate of 2016 Convention Delegates," April 2, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "Under the Radar," July 9, 2009
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Tennessee GOP, "Tennessean Named New RNC General Counsel," accessed April 25, 2016
- ↑ Times Free Press, "Trump backers cry foul as Tennessee GOP picks convention delegates," April 2, 2016
- ↑ WATE-ABC, "Trump campaign accuses Tennessee GOP of stealing delegates," April 5, 2016
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chattanooga Times Press, "Trump backers cry foul as Tennessee GOP picks convention delegates, "April 2, 2016
- ↑ Tennessee GOP, "2016 Delegate Slate," accessed April 25, 2016
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Politico, "RNC rules clash erupts," April 14, 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
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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