Zoraida Fonalledas
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| Zoraida Fonalledas | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Puerto Rico |
| Role: | National Committeewoman |
| Location: | Puerto Rico |
| Affiliation: | Republican Party |
Zoraida Fonalledas is the national committeewoman of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico. She was first elected in 1995. She has served on several committees at Republican National Conventions.[1] Fonalledas served on the Rules Committee of the convention in July 2016.
Career
Fonalledas serves on the board of the International Institute for People with Disabilities of Puerto Rico, which is an organization that aims to help people with disabilities develop skills and find jobs. She has also served on the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, which works to "provide advice and assistance to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on a broad range of topics that impact people with intellectual disabilities and the field of intellectual disabilities."[2][3]
Political activity
Political donations
Fonalledas is married to Jaime Fonalledas, president of the Puerto Rico development group Empresas Fonalledas. Empreseas Fonalledas developed and maintains the Plaza Las Americas, the largest shopping mall in the Caribbean.[4] The company has also been a consistent donor to Republican candidates and the Republican National Committee, having supported the RNC, Mitt Romney, and Tim Pawlenty among others in 2012.[5] Fonalledas herself has been a consistent donor as well, having given to the RNC, the NRCC, and a number of Republican candidates since 1993.[6]
Republican Party of Puerto Rico
Fonalledas was elected national committeewoman for the Republican Party of Puerto Rico in 1995 and was re-elected to a four-year term in 2016. She gave testimony before the United States Senate in 1998 on behalf of self-determination for Puerto Rico. She argued that Puerto Rico ought to be given the opportunity to decide for itself whether to become a state or an independent nation. According to her biography on the Republican Party website, Fonalledas supports statehood for Puerto Rico.[1][7][8]
When former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney (R) ran for president in 2012, Fonalledas served as his campaign chair in Puerto Rico. Fonalledas was named chair of the Committee on Permanent Organization for the 2012 Republican National Convention. She has served on the Budget, Rules, and Arrangements committees for the Republican National Committee (RNC) over the years and as a co-chair of the RNC Growth & Opportunity Project Commission following the 2012 election. That commission aimed to provide recommendations for the future of the Republican Party.[1][9][10]
Presidential preference
In February 2016, Fonalledas endorsed Marco Rubio's (R-Fla.) 2016 presidential campaign.[11]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Rules committee
- See also: RNC Rules Committee, 2016
Fonalledas 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.[12]
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.
See also
External links
- Zoraida Fonalledas on Twitter
- Republican Party
- Republican Party of Puerto Rico
- RNC Growth & Opportunity Project
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Republican National Committee, "Zori Fonalledas," accessed April 25, 2016
- ↑ YAI, "International Institute for People with Disabilities of Puerto Rico," accessed April 26, 2015
- ↑ Administration for Community Living, "Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities," accessed April 26, 2016
- ↑ Malls.com, "Plaza Las Americas," accessed June 29, 2016
- ↑ Center for Responsive Politics, "Empresas Fonalledas, 2012 Election Cycle," accessed June 29, 2016
- ↑ Center for Responsive Politics, "Zoraida Fonalledas contributions," accessed June 29, 2016
- ↑ Puerto Rico Herald, "Statement of Zoraida Fonalledas," July 21, 1998
- ↑ Republican National Convention Rules(as adopted in 2012), "Rule 3," accessed July 29, 2016
- ↑ Republican Party, "RNC Announces Chairs of Three Convention Committees," July 27, 2012
- ↑ Republican Party, "Growth & Opportunity Project," accessed April 26, 2016
- ↑ Republican Party of Puerto Rico, "Marco Rubio Endorsed By Key Puerto Rico Leaders," February 23, 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.
