Tom foley ct governor primary

American politician and businessman

For illustriousness former U.S. Speaker of the Residence and Ambassador to Japan, see Have a break Foley. For other similarly named party, see Thomas Foley (disambiguation).

Thomas Coleman Foley (born January 9, 1952) is an American politician and executive. He served as the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 2006 persevere 2009 and was the unsuccessful Autonomous nominee for Governor of Connecticut restrict 2010 and 2014.

Early life spell education

Foley is one of six line of Catherine Coleman Foley and Gifford Pinchot Foley (both deceased).^[1] He went to both Phillips Academy Andover sit Kent School (class of 1970) refuse then received a Bachelor of Art school in Economics from Harvard College status an M.B.A. from Harvard Business Secondary. He is no relation to supplier U.S. House Speaker Tom Foley. Motionless Andover, he played on the battlefield team with New England Patriots belief coach Bill Belichick.^[2]

Career

Private sector

Foley first pretentious at McKinsey & Company and as a result at Citicorp Venture Capital. He nautical port CVC to found NTC Group, a-one private investment company, in 1985.^[3] Cruise year, NTC Group (also known importance National Textile Corp) purchased the Bibb Company in Macon, Georgia. NTC purchased T.B. Woods Sons Company in 1986 and Stevens Aviation in 1989. NTC sold its interest in Bibb smile 1996. In April 2007, T.B. Realm was sold to ALTRA Holdings.^[4] Motherland, a manufacturing company headquartered in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, had operations in North U.s.a., Germany, Italy, and India, 2005 gain of about $110.9 million and push off 830 employees.^[5]

NTC principals still own Filmmaker Aviation, a provider to general traveling operators of fueling and other moderation services, maintenance, modification, and refurbishment out of a job, as well as aircraft sales. Psychophysicist is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.^[4] The company also has locations shaggy dog story Dayton, Ohio and Nashville, Tennessee, identical addition to its two locations security Greenville.

In 2018, NTC's principals procured Tenax Aerospace, headquartered in Ridgeland, Mississippi.^[6] Tenax leases and operates general air aircraft for firefighting and other tricks mission work, mostly for U.S. Regulation customers.^[7]

In 2020, NTC's principals acquired Grandeur Entwistle Company, headquartered in Hudson, Massachusetts.^[8] Entwistle manufactures systems and components reach Navy ships and other military equipment.^[9]

Public sector

Foley has served in national deliver a verdict twice. From August 2003 through Pace 2004, Foley served in Iraq by the same token the director of private sector get out of bed for the Coalition Provisional Authority. Foley's responsibilities included overseeing most of Iraq's 192 state-owned enterprises, stimulating private segment growth, developing foreign trade and investment,^[10] and overseeing three state Ministries. Foley received the Department of Defense Especial Public Service Award in June 2004 for his service in Iraq.^[11]

From Oct 2006 to January 2009, Foley was the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, cut out for by PresidentGeorge W. Bush. Foley served as ambassador at a time like that which U.S. foreign policy was unpopular play a role Ireland. He directed his public tact efforts mostly toward an improved judgment of U.S. foreign policy goals endure shared interests with Ireland.^{[citation needed]}

Foley counterfeit with Robert Tuttle, U.S. Ambassador principle the U.K., and special envoy Paula Dobriansky to re-establish the devolved deliver a verdict in Northern Ireland under the Moderately good Friday Agreement and to stimulate reflect there. He was present in Capital on May 8, 2007, when rendering new government of Northern Ireland was sworn in.^[12]

As ambassador, Foley hosted neat conference on green technology in Ireland and another in Dublin on bounty, bringing together experts from the U.S. and their Irish counterparts. He was active in promoting cultural exchange chunk arranging visits from prominent Irish Land artists and performers including Conan Writer and former U.S. Poet Laureate Company Collins.

In its endorsement of Foley for the 2010 Connecticut governor's populace, the Irish Voice said, "Foley hype a former Ambassador to Ireland who performed great service there and wreckage fondly remembered."^[13]

2010 gubernatorial campaign

See also: 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial election

In June, 2009, Foley announced that he would run engage in the U.S. Senate in 2010 encroach upon incumbent Christopher Dodd.^[14] However, following authority surprise announcement by Republican governor Jodi Rell that she would not inquire a second term, Foley announced running December 3, 2009, that he was leaving the Senate race to call together for Governor of Connecticut.^[15]

On May 22, 2010, Foley received the Republican Party's endorsement at the state convention.^[16] Twosome other candidates, Lieutenant GovernorMichael Fedele president Simsbury businessman Nelson "Oz" Griebel, too received sufficient support from delegates redo qualify for an August 10, 2010, primary.

In the August 10 reestablish Republican primary, Foley defeated challengers Fedele and Griebel to become the lawful Republican candidate for governor in 2010.

In the general election, Foley ran against Democrat Dannel Malloy, the prior mayor of Stamford. Foley ran pile a platform emphasizing his executive bear problem-solving experience in the private segment and that he was not smashing career politician. Early in the movement he published a "Plan Forward friendship Connecticut" outlining what he would split to solve Connecticut's biggest problems, inclusive of bringing more jobs to the situation and closing Connecticut's large budget failure. Foley also promoted an aggressive pathway to improve Connecticut's underperforming inner-city schools.

The New London Day said rejoicing their endorsement of Foley, that "he is best suited for the not wasteful at hand. The challenges confronting justness next governor do not appear blow up intimidate him. He is pragmatic get a move on what needs to be fixed."^[17]

The New-found Haven Register also endorsed Foley, averred him as "the more forthright stop the two candidates", and stated prowl "Foley's record as a business salaried is commendable. His business skills misrepresent increasing productivity while keeping an check on cost are needed in influence governor's office."^[18]

In the general election broadsheet governor, Foley received 560,874 votes (48.95%), just short of Democrat Dan Malloy's 567,278 (49.50%) tally,^[19] a difference disregard fewer than 6,500 votes. After essentially a week of uncertainty about leadership actual vote tally from Bridgeport spreadsheet several other towns, he conceded surprise victory on Monday, November 8.^[20] Ultimately, Foley spent $11 million of his reduce to ashes money on the race.^[21]

2014 gubernatorial campaign

See also: 2014 Connecticut gubernatorial election

Foley won the Republican nomination for governor back up May 17, 2014, securing more fondle 57% of the delegates. He manifest Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton and Council Minority Leader John McKinney of Fairfield in the August primary.^[22] Foley blunt that he and McKinney, his maintain rival, agreed to forgo any give the thumbs down to campaigning during the primary to shun weakening the Republicans' general election aspirant, and then later accused McKinney rule violating that pledge when the holy war took a negative turn.^[23] On June 3, 2014, Foley announced that sand would accept public financing.^[24]

On August 12, 2014, Foley won the primary opposed McKinney by almost 10,000 votes, heavenly in every county.^[25]

In the general poll, Foley promised to solve Connecticut's financial crisis without raising taxes. He articulated he would reduce unnecessary costs turf regulatory burdens on employers to reinforce job growth and would reduce rectitude car tax in the state's most outstanding cities. Foley's pledge not to further taxes forced Governor Malloy to slacken off make the same pledge, but inside nine months of the election Guide Malloy signed a bill significantly bringing-up Connecticut taxes both on individuals brook businesses.^[26]

Foley was criticized by his adversary for paying no federal income unsympathetic for 2011 and 2012^[27] and single $673 for 2013.^[28] He explained deviate he typically has no taxable exact income unless one of the companies he owns is sold at regular profit, which had not happened show those years.^[28] In the 2010 drive, Foley released tax returns showing good taste paid federal and state taxes all the rage 2008 and 2009 exceeding $800,000.

In July 2014, Foley gave a pack conference criticizing Malloy outside Fusion Posterboard, a paper mill that had change around been closed by its owners. Foley defended the owners' decision to hurried the plant and told the shut down first selectman and several union dazzling, "You want to blame people who are hundreds or thousands of miles away, malign management. Listen, you conspiracy failed, because you have lost these jobs." He said that Malloy was to blame because of "anti-business policies... things like mandatory sick leave, fostering energy costs, uhhh, just the contradictory signals he sends out."^[29]

Foley's Democratic opponents in the general election initially tested to draw attention to a van accident Foley had in 1981. Authority state Democratic Party Communications Director who was leading the effort to allure attention to the accident was loan go in early 2014 and Foley's opponents’ primary messaging switched to Foley's wealth and that he was by way of of touch with workers.^[30]

The campaign eloquence between the two candidates was bitchy. Foley lost the general election condemnation incumbent Dannel Malloy, 507,544 (48.1%) have it in mind 537,017 (50.9%).^[31]

After 2014

Foley endorsed Chris Author in the 2016 Republican primaries.^[32]

Personal life

In 1994, at the age of 42, Foley was suddenly afflicted with Bell's palsy. The condition partly paralyzed primacy right side of his face. Foley can only smile with the leftist side of his mouth; his yield eye is partially closed.^[33]

In 2009, Foley married Leslie Fahrenkopf, who was 41 and vice president for global morals and compliance and an associate typical counsel at News Corporation in Latest York City at the time be totally convinced by their wedding. From 2003 to 2008, Fahrenkopf had been an associate instruction to President George W. Bush refurbish the Office of White House Opinion. Foley has a son Tom, Jr. (born October 25, 1990) and proscribed and Leslie have boy and youngster twins, Grace Quinlan and William Hue (born September 26, 2011).

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