Steve Scheffler
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| Steve Scheffler | |
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| Organization: | Republican Party of Iowa |
| Role: | National Committeeman |
| Location: | Iowa |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
Steve Scheffler is the national committeeman of the Republican Party of Iowa.[1] Scheffler is also the leader of the Iowa Christian Alliance and president of the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition.[2][3]
Career
Political activity
Schleffler was first elected in 2008 to serve as the national committeeman for the Republican Party of Iowa. He was re-elected to a new term in 2016. He was previously a member of the Iowa Republican State Committee from 1992 to 2008 and is a former member of the Country Central Committee.[4]
Schleffler is also the president of the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, a board member of the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, a board member of the Iowa Christian Alliance, and on the board of directors of the National Faith and Freedom Coalition.[4]
Republican National Committee
Several positions that Schleffler has held within the Republican National Committee (RNC) are listed below:[4]
- RNC Rules Committee, 2009
- Delegate, RNC Republican National Convention, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008
- RNC Credentials Committee, Republican National Convention, 2000, 2004, 2008
- RNC Permanent Organization Committee, Republican National Convention, 1996
- RNC Platform Committee, Republican National Convention, 1992
- Alternate Delegate, Republican National Convention, 1988
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Scheffler was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Iowa.[5]
In Iowa's Republican caucuses on February 1, 2016, Ted Cruz won eight delegates, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio won seven delegates each, Ben Carson won three delegates, while five candidates—Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, and Mike Huckabee—all won one delegate each.
Ballotpedia was not able to identify to which candidate Scheffler was allocated based on the results of the Iowa caucuses or which candidate Scheffler was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Iowa’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[6]
On June 1, 2016, Eric Rosenthal, the chairman of the Iowa Republican State Convention Nominating Committee, wrote in The Gazette that all 30 delegates from Iowa would support Trump at the convention. "Mr. Trump will be the only candidate nominated [at the convention], therefore, all 30 delegate votes will be voted for him," said Rosenthal.[7]
RNC Rules Committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Scheffler 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.[8][9]
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.
The movement to oppose Trump
As some delegates, including members of the Rules Committee, began efforts to oppose 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Scheffler has opposed the movement. At the center of the effort was a rules amendment supported by Rules Committee member Kendal Unruh that would allow a delegate to vote at the convention for a candidate other than the one to whom he or she was allocated, if doing so went against that delegate's conscience. According to NBC News, the proposal reads as follows:[10]
| “ | If any such delegate notifies the secretary of his or her intent to cast a vote of conscience, whether personal or religious, each such delegate shall be unbound and unconstrained by these rules on any given vote, including the first ballot for the selection of the Republican nominee for President of the United States, without the risk of challenge, sanction, or retribution by the Republican National Committee.[11] | ” |
On June 20, 2016, Iowa delegate Cecil Stinemetz, who joined the anti-Trump movement, released an email he had received from Scheffler. Scheffler wrote "[s]top this madness Cecil!! All the other candidates have either folded their campaigns or suspended them. You are hurting Iowa! Can’t you behave yourself? You are an embarrassment! The binding for Iowa is what it is and your trying to make a name for yourself in the press is disgusting! Christians don’t behave this way!"[3] Stinemetz, calling Scheffler's email "intimidation", said "[m]y whole adult life I have been a loyal Republican. But this whole experience has really opened my eyes to what some folks I previously thought were nuts were warning us about. If you want to know how it’s possible for someone like Donald Trump to rise this far in our party, it’s because we have leaders like this."[3]
Courageous Conservatives PAC's anti-Trump ads seeking to unbind delegates at the RNC began airing on June 23, 2016. The first ad, which aired on the radio in Des Moines, Iowa, targeted Scheffler. The ad encouraged people to call Scheffler and gave the phone number of his office at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition in the ad. Scheffler responded to the ads, stating that attempt to unbind delegates is a "slap in the face of conservative activists in 50 states and six territories who have spoken." He went on to say that "[i]f these people think they are going to intimidate me, that ain’t gonna happen. These people are a bunch of bullies. I’m not going to go against the will of the people from across this country."[12]
Delegate rules
Iowa's district-level delegates were elected at district conventions, while at-large delegates were selected by a nominating committee and approved by delegates to the state convention. Iowa GOP bylaws in 2016 stipulated that delegates to the national convention were to be bound to the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting "regardless of whether any such candidate has withdrawn from the race or otherwise does not have his or her name placed in nomination." Iowa GOP bylaws also stated, however, that if there was only one candidate on the nominating ballot at the convention and if that candidate "received votes in the Iowa Caucuses," then all Iowa delegates were bound to vote for that candidate through the first round of voting.
Iowa caucus results
- See also: Presidential election in Iowa, 2016
| Iowa Republican Caucus, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
 Ted Cruz |
27.7% | 51,666 | 8 | |
| Donald Trump | 24.3% | 45,427 | 7 | |
| Marco Rubio | 23.1% | 43,165 | 7 | |
| Ben Carson | 9.3% | 17,395 | 3 | |
| Rand Paul | 4.5% | 8,481 | 1 | |
| Jeb Bush | 2.8% | 5,238 | 1 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 1.9% | 3,485 | 1 | |
| John Kasich | 1.9% | 3,474 | 1 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 1.8% | 3,345 | 1 | |
| Chris Christie | 1.8% | 3,284 | 0 | |
| Rick Santorum | 1% | 1,783 | 0 | |
| Totals | 186,743 | 30 | ||
| Source: The Des Moines Register, "Iowa Caucus Results" | ||||
Delegate allocation
Iowa had 30 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; each candidate who won a percentage of the statewide vote in Iowa's caucuses received a share of the state's district-level delegates.[13][14]
Of the remaining 18 delegates, 15 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated proportionally based on the statewide vote; any candidate who won a percentage of the statewide vote was entitled to receive a share of Iowa'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.[13][14]
Recent news
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Iowa Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, "About," accessed June 23, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/new-anti-trump-movement-grows-to-include-hundreds-of-gop-delegates/2016/06/20/88fb25cc-36f7-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html The Washington Post, " New anti-Trump movement grows to include hundreds of GOP delegates," June 20, 2016]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 GOP.com, "Steve Schleffler," accessed June 9, 2016
- ↑ Caffeinated Thoughts, "Iowa GOP State Convention Live Blog," May 21, 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.
- ↑ The Gazette, "All Iowa Republican National Delegates will vote for Donald Trump," June 1, 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
- ↑ Facebook, "Re-Elect Steve Scheffler Republican National Committeeman for Iowa," May 27, 2016
- ↑ NBC News, "Campaign to Dump Trump at Republican Convention Emerges," June 17, 2016
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ The Wall Street Journal, "Stop-Trump Groups Air Ads Aiming to Unbind Delegates," June 22, 2016
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
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