RI
Republican Party News Release
For immediate release:
April 21, 2008
IVAN MARTE OF CRANSTON TO BECOME NEW RI GOP HISPANIC
ASSEMBLY CHAIRMAN
WARWICK, RI - The Rhode Island Republican Party
today announces the appointment of Ivan Marte of
Cranston to a diversity outreach leadership post
within the Party. Marte will become the new Chairman
of the party's RI Republican Hispanic Assembly. He
replaces David Quiroa who resigned several weeks
ago.
"Ivan
Marte is an active leader in the Hispanic community,
is active within his own Cranston community and is
an energized Republican who will serve us well,"
states Chairman Giovanni Cicione. "We are thrilled
to bring him on board to this leadership post which
is very important to our ongoing outreach efforts to
the Hispanic and other diverse communities."
Marte says he is pleased to take the chairman's post
for the Party. "I am glad to serve the state
Republican Party in a Hispanic leadership post
because I support the Party's goals," Marte says. "I
want to help them fight the Democrat leadership at
the statehouse and fight to help the family run
small businesses which many Hispanics own, which are
struggling in Cranston and across the state."
Marte will also play a pivotal role with the Party's
ongoing candidate recruitment effort, having been a
candidate himself who is eyeing another run this
year. Marte ran unsuccessfully for Cranston Senate
District 28, losing to incumbent Josh Miller in
2006. He expects to announce his intentions about a
race this year very soon.
"Ivan has run for office, knows the issues, knows
the shortcomings of the opposition, and is well
positioned as a candidate himself," Cicione adds.
Marte, a native of the Dominican Republic, is a
professional banker who has worked at the Dominican
counterpart of the Federal Reserve Bank and
currently is in management with Domestic Bank
locally. He has served on the Cranston Mayor's
office Cranston Diversity Advisory Committee, has
taught English as a Second Language (ESL) at the
Cranston Public Library and is a past recipient of
the Dominican American Award. He is married and the
father of seven children.
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