Robert (Bob) J. Kabel is an American lawyer. He is a Republican attorney, lobbyist, and former National Committeeman of the

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In this capacity, he was a member of the

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. Previously, he was Chairman of the D.C. Republican Committee from December 2004 through January 2013. Kabel served on the

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and its International Committee during the George W. Bush Administration He has also been involved with the

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, where he was a fundraiser. He has been involved in Republican politics throughout his career; during the

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, Kabel served for three years as Special Assistant to President Reagan for Legislative Affairs. He is a former Legislative Director for Senator

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(R-IN) and former Legislative Assistant to Senator

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(R-AZ). He also served as a part-time member of the

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. Kabel was the chairman of the

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from 1993 to 1999 and 2014-2016. He also served as chairman of the Liberty Education Forum, which is the think-tank arm of the Log Cabin Republicans. From 2000 to 2004, Kabel was vice chairman of the District of Columbia Republican Committee. He led the party to write its first platform, which explicitly opposed a federal constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, the only state-level Republican Party to do so. In December 2004 he was voted the chairman, becoming the first openly gay chair of a state-level Republican Committee. In 2016, Kabel published a memoir, Inside and Out: the Odyssey of a Gay Conservative.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kabel, Robert J. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American lawyers Washington, D.C., Republicans Republican National Committee members