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Toni Anne Dashiell
Basic facts
Organization:	Republican Party of Texas
Role:	National Committeewoman
Location:	Boerne,Texas
Affiliation:	Republican
Education:	(B.A., recreation therapy)[1]
Website:	Official website

Toni Anne Dashiell is the national committeewoman of theRepublican Party of Texas.^[2] Dashiell is also the vice president of Thomas L. Dashiell, CLU Inc. Insurance Sales and president of Dashiell Properties, Inc., a property management firm.^[3]

Career

Political and public service career

Toni Anne Dashiell's involvement in politics began in 1968, when she joined the Teenage Republicans and worked on Richard Nixon's (R) presidential campaign.^[2] Dashiell has been active on other campaigns, including presidential,U.S. Senate andU.S. House, statewide, and local races.^[2]

Locally, Dashiell has served on the Boerne City Chamber of Commerce as well as the City's Government Affairs Council and the Boerne Independent School District Budget Committee.^[2] She also served on the Kendall County Sheriff’s Community Advisory Board.^[1] In 2011, Dashiell was appointed by formerLieutenant Governor ofTexasDavid Dewhurst to the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Board.^[2][1]

Real estate and insurance

Dashiell and her husband, Tom Dashiell, own Dashiell Properties, a real estate and property management company.^[4] Since 2006, Toni Anne Dashiell is the president of Dashiell Properties.^[1][5] She and her husband also own Thomas L. Dashiell, CLU Inc. Insurance Sales, of which she is the vice president.^[1][3] Dashiell is licensed in real estate and insurance sales.^[6]

Leadership

In 2010, Dashiell travelled to several countries, including Bosnia and Nigeria, as part of an initiative of theWomen's Democracy Network. The project's aim was to "train women seeking public office in campaign management, leadership development, and communication."^[6][3]

In 2012, Dashiell, along with her business partner, Rachel Woods, published a book entitledLeading for Freedom: Leadership Skills for Republicans. The two women began a leadership consulting firm in 2012; the firm, Woods and Dashiell Consulting, LLC, is based in Boerne,Texas.^[5][7]

Republican Party

In 2008, Dashiell was elected president of the Texas Federation of Republican Women (TFRW). In 2009, she received the Ronald Reagan Leadership Award from the National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) for her active leadership role within the TFRW.^[2] During her tenure as president, Dashiell organized the TFRW support around a voter I.D. bill, which was passed by theTexas Legislature.^[1] In 2011, she received the Ten Most Outstanding Award from TFRW.^[1]

Dashiell served as the president and first vice president for the Kendall County Republican Women. She was also the treasurer for the Kendall County Republican Women'sPAC. The Kendall County Republican Party awarded Dashiell volunteer of the year in 1999.^[1]

Dashiell has been active with theRepublican Party of Texas, theRepublican National Committee, and the Republican National Conventions. She served as a delegate at the 2004, 2008, and 2012 Republican National Conventions.^[1] She was elected national committeewoman in 2013 and reelected in 2016.^[2][8][9] As the national committee woman, Dashiell served as a delegate at theRepublican National Convention in July 2016.

2016 Republican National Convention

See also:Republican National Convention, 2016

Dashiell wasan RNC delegate to the2016 Republican National Convention fromTexas. Dashiell was one of 48 delegates from Texas bound by state party rules to supportDonald Trump at the convention.^[10] As of July 13, 2016, Trump had approximately1,542 delegates. The winner of the Republican nomination needed the support of 1,237 delegates. Trump formally won the nomination on July 19, 2016.

RNC Rules Committee

See also:RNC Rules Committee, 2016

Dashiell was a member of theRNC 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.^[11]

Appointment process

The convention Rules Committee in 2016 consisted of one male and one female delegate from each state and territorial delegation.TheRules of the Republican Party required each delegation to elect from its own membership representatives to serve on the Rules Committee.

Delegate rules

See also:RNC delegate guidelines from Texas, 2016 andRepublican delegates from Texas, 2016

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 andCNN

Delegate allocation

See also:2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

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.^[12][13]

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.^[12][13]

See also

• Texas
• Republican Party of Texas
• Republican National Committee
• Republican National Convention, 2016

External links

• Republican Party of Texas
• Woods and Dashiell, LLC
• Dashiell Properties
• Toni Anne Dashiell

Footnotes

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