Michael W. Grebe
| Michael Grebe | |||
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| Location: | Milwaukee, Wis. | ||
| Expertise: | Senior advisor | ||
| Affiliation: | Republican | ||
| Education: | •United State Military Academy (B.A.) •University of Michigan (J.D.) | ||
| Website: | Official website | ||
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Michael Grebe is a Republican political advisor. He has served as general counsel for the Republican National Committee and was an attorney at and CEO of Foley and Lardner. From 2002 to 2016, he was the CEO and president of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Grebe acted as chairman for all of Scott Walker's (R-Wis.) gubernatorial campaigns and was chairman of Walker's 2016 presidential campaign.[1][2]
A Vietnam War veteran and recipient of two bronze stars, Grebe has a law degree from the University of Michigan.
Career
In 1970, Michael Grebe joined Foley and Lardner LLP as the firm's CEO and chairman; he was made a partner in 1977 and remained with the firm until 2002.[3][4][5] From 1984 to 2002, Grebe was an active member of the Republican National Committee (RNC) as both committee member and general counsel.[5][6] Grebe was also the president of the University of Wisconsin's Board of Regents.[5]
While still at the RNC and Foley and Lardner, Grebe became the director of the Oshkosh Corporation (formerly Oshkosh Truck Corp.) in 1990 and continued as a director until 2013.[3] Following his retirement from Foley and Lardner and the RNC in 2002, Grebe joined the boards of several organizations and businesses. In 2002, Grebe became the president and CEO of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, from which he retired in July 2016.[2][7][6][8][5][9] In 2003, Grebe started on the board of directors for Church Mutual Insurance Company; he remained with Church Mutual until 2015.[10]
In 2006, Grebe acted as campaign chairman for Rep. Mark Green's (R-Wis.) gubernatorial campaign—Green ran against Scott Walker, but Walker dropped out of the race six months into the campaign.[11][6] During the 2006 gubernatorial race in Wisconsin, Grebe met Scott Walker and the two formed a political relationship. Grebe was Walker's gubernatorial campaign chairman in 2010, 2012 and 2014.[7][6][5][9]
Board appointments
Grebe has also been on the board of the following organizations:[12][13][14]
- The Milwaukee Brewers, the city's professional baseball team
- DPL Inc., Dayton Power and Light Company (until 2004)
- The Philanthropy Roundtable (chairman), a nonprofit
- The Charter School Growth Fund, a nonprofit for charter schools
- Board of visitors for the United States Military Academy (chairman)
- M7 economic development project in southeastern Wisconsin (co-chairman)
Scott Walker presidential campaign, 2016
- See also: Scott Walker presidential campaign, 2016
Scott Walker announced his official candidacy for the 2016 presidential campaign on July 13, 2015.[15] Michael Grebe, as a longtime Walker supporter and campaign advisor, was appointed as campaign chairman.[7][16] On September 17, Walker announced that he was suspending his campaign, effectively ending his bid for the White House.[17]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Grebe was an at-large delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Wisconsin. Grebe was one of 36 delegates from Wisconsin bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz at the convention.[18] 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 | |
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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.[19][20]
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.[19][20]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Milwauke Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, "Michael Grebe to retire as CEO of Bradley Foundation," October 22, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 NBC15, "Bradley Foundation taps GOP lawyer and insider as new CEO," June 23, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bloomberg, "Executive Profile," July 13, 2015
- ↑ Foley, "Michael W. Grebe," accessed July 13, 2015
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Bloomberg, "The Conservative Group Behind Scott Walker's Political Rise," March 30, 2015
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Weekly Standard, "Walker Readies Himself as the Candidate of the Mainstream Conservative Movement," July 10, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Journal Sentinel, "Grebe to serve as head of Scott Walker's presidential campaign," July 10, 2015
- ↑ The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, "Board of Directors," accessed July 13, 2015
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 New York Times, "Behind Scott Walker, a Longstanding Conservative Alliance Against Unions," June 8, 2015
- ↑ Church Mutual, "Poirier elected to Church Mutual Board of Directors," March 19, 2015
- ↑ Politico, "The crushing defeat that shaped Scott Walker," March 29, 2015
- ↑ Journal Times, "Brewers up for sale," January 17, 2004
- ↑ Business Wire, "Grebe Steps Down from DPL Board Due to Health," April 19, 2004
- ↑ Philanthropy Roundtable, "Our Board," accessed July 13, 2015
- ↑ Washington Post, "One of the last in, Scott Walker enters 2016 presidential race near the top of the GOP field," July 13, 2015
- ↑ WPR/NPR, "Report: Walker Taps Conservative Backer Michael Grebe To Chair Presidential Campaign," July 10, 2015
- ↑ Politico, "Walker quits after blowing through campaign cash," September 21, 2015
- ↑ Wisconsin State Journal, "Wisconsin GOP releases list of all 42 delegates to Republican National Convention," April 27, 2016
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016 Cite error: Invalid
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