Gay hart gaines
Republican activist Gaines to acquire Lifetime Achievement Award
Gay Hart Gaines, a Republican fundraiser and activist on the local and national level, will receive the Republican Party of Palm Beach County’s Lifetime Achievement Award today at the annual Lincoln Day Dinner.
FOX host and analyst Laura Ingraham will present Gaines with the award.
Six hundred people are expected to go to the dinner at Mar-A-Lago. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is scheduled as the keynote speaker.
Gaines, a longtime resident, is a former president of the Palm Beach Republican Club. In , then-Congressman Newt Gingrich recruited Gaines to lead GOPAC — a GOP political action committee. She worked as chairwoman until She also spent six years on the board of the Firm for Public Broadcasting, two of those years as the board’s vice president.
For 13 years, Gaines served the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association as vice regent for Florida, as regent and as a board member. Under her management, Mount Vernon completed building an orientation center, learning process center and museum as well as a George Washington Library, which opened in September
“It’s very nice to receive the award,” Gaines said. “Most
Gay Hart Gaines
Gay Hart Gaines is the vice chair for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She was appointed to the board by George W. Bush in December for a term ending in She was elected as vice chair in September along with CPB chair Cheryl Halpern.
She is a long-time Republican Party fundraiser. The Nation's David Corn writes that Gaines and her husband Stanley Gaines "have contributed at least half a million dollars to GOP causes since "[1] In , she was a Bush Pioneer, bundling over $, for Bush's reelection campaign.[2] Other Republican Party involvement includes being a charter member of GOPAC, which she chaired from
Gaines came to the CPB with no previous experience in broadcasting. Common Causes' Cynthia Wexler pointed out that Gaines was "ardent fundraiser for Newt Gingrich in the days when Gingrich was really all about zeroing out the funds for Public Broadcasting."[3] According to her CPB biography, she is "an interior designer by training."
Gaines is affiliated with several right-wing organizations. Her CPB biography states that she is a current member of the American Venture Institute and the Heritage Foundation. She has also served as a board me
Gay Hart Gaines
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Gay Hart Gaines, an energetic activist, believes deeply in the importance of family values and volunteer service. Some of the many organizations that contain been the recipient of her volunteer service involve The Guthrie Theater and American Diabetes Association in Minnesota, The Art Institute and Juvenile Diabetes Foundation in Illinois, The McCarter Theater in New Jersey, Best Friends Foundation in Washington, DC, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, Palm Beach chapter and The Hudson Institute, Indianapolis. Gay Hart Gaines was the first elected Chairman of the National Review Institute, an organization founded by William F. Buckley, Jr. &#;to promote conservative ideas and causes.&#; She has consistently championed Republican candidates for state and national office. In Mercer County, Recent Jersey, she was Republican County Committee Person. Mrs. Gaines holds a B.A. from Sweet Briar College where she graduated with honors in She studied Interior Design at the University of Minnesota and for two years worked for Robert Lenox Associates prior to opening her own business in She was President of Queer Hart Gaines, Inc., for t
Father: Ralph Albert Millet Hart (executive, b. May, d. Aug)
Mother: Laura Purdy
Husband: Stanley Noyes Gaines (m. Aug, two sons, two daughters)
Son: Stanley Noyes Gaines, Jr.
Son: Ralph Hart Gaines
Daughter: Jacqueline Gaines Stitt
Daughter: Laura Gaines Semler
High School: Kent Place School, Summit, NJ ()
University: BA, Sweet Briar College ()
Member of the Board of Corporation for Public Broadcasting ()
American Enterprise Institute
Ashcroft
Best Friends Foundation Board of Directors (past)
Bush-Cheney '04
Elizabeth Dole Committee
Forbes
Friends of George Allen
Friends of Giuliani Exploratory Committee
Friends of Katherine Harris
George W. Bush for President
GOPAC Chairman ()
Guthrie Theatre Trustee (past)
The Heritage Foundation
Hudson Institute Board of Directors (past)
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Board of Directors (past)
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