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'''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 2003 for a term ending in 2010. She was elected as vice chair in September 2005 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 1998."[http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=24751] In 2004, she was a [[Bush Pioneer]], [[bundling]] over $100,000 for Bush's reelection campaign. Other Republican Party involvement includes being a charter member of [[GOPAC]], which she chaired from 1993-1997.
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."[http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/30/1411221] According to her CPB biography, she is "an interior designer by training."
