Martha Roby

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Martha Roby

Martha Dubina Roby (born July 26, 1976 in Montgomery , Alabama ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . She has represented Alabama's 2nd Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives since 2011 . She will not run again in the 2020 election .

Family, education and work

Martha Roby is the daughter of Judge Joel Fredrick Dubina , presiding judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the eleventh district. She attended New York University , where she earned a Bachelor of Music . She then studied at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham , which she graduated in 2001. Before entering politics, she worked for Franco Copeland's law firm and was a member of a Christian organization.

Roby has two children with her husband Riley.

Political career

Roby was first elected to Montgomery City Council in 2003. In the 2010 election , she was elected to the US House of Representatives in Alabama's 2nd Congressional constituency. After the prognoses initially spoke against them, they prevailed with 51 to 49 percent of the vote against the democratic mandate holder Bobby Bright . Roby took up the mandate on January 3, 2011 and was confirmed by a large margin in 2012 and 2014.

In the 2016 election , Roby barely reached her re-election with 48 percent of the vote, after declaring before the 2016 presidential election that she would not vote for Republican candidate Donald Trump because of his Pussygate affair ; he was "unacceptable" as a presidential candidate. During Donald Trump's presidency from 2017, Roby sought proximity to the White House, but never abandoned her words from the election campaign.

In the Republican primary election ahead of the 2018 election , several serious candidates ran against them, all of whom raised their criticism of the president. Roby's predecessor Bright, who has since switched to the Republicans, entered the runoff election with Roby himself after she had remained well below an absolute majority with 39 percent of the votes in the first round of primary elections. In the runoff election on July 17, 2018, after Trump declared his support for her, she won with 67 to 33 percent of the vote. In the main election she prevailed with 61 to 39 percent of the vote against the Democrat Tabitha Isner, but from 2019 she belonged to the minority in the House of Representatives for the first time after the Democrats won the majority in the mid-term election in Trump's presidency.

At the end of July 2019, Roby announced that he would not run again in the upcoming 2020 election. She was one of 13 women in the Republican faction at the time. Your mandate ends on January 3, 2021. With Alabama expected to lose a congressional constituency following the 2020 United States Census , that constituency could be dissolved in the early 2020s.

Positions

Roby represents economic and socio-political positions in the mainstream of the Republican Party. In Congress, she advocated a reform of the Veterans Ministry towards greater efficiency and transparency. According to FiveThirtyEight , Roby voted with the Trump administration 95 percent of the time , including the - failed - abolition and replacement of the Obamacare 2017 health care reform .

Web links

Commons : Martha Roby  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scott Bland: Roby wins Alabama primary runoff. In: Politico , July 17, 2018.
  2. ^ A b Brian Lyman: US Rep. Martha Roby won't seek re-election. In: The Montgomery Advertiser , July 26, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Roby, Martha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roby, Martha Dubina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Republican Party)
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Montgomery , Alabama