Ellmers, R Rep

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Political action

Club for Growth Action states that it is “dedicated to a single mission: beating big government politicians” of both parties. The group targets mostly Republicans in primaries and Democrats in the general election.^[2]

In February 2013, Club for Growth Action launched a website called “PrimaryMyCongressman.com." Club for Growth president Chris Chocola said the website would "serve as a tool to hold opponents of economic freedom and limited government accountable for their actions.” According to Club for Growth Action, the website will "rotate liberal Republicans through the website to highlight their failed records on limiting government." The first nine targets were Republicans Mike Simpson, Adam Kinzinger, Rick Crawford, Frank Lucas, Steven Palazzo, Martha Roby, Larry Bucshon, Renee Ellmers, and Aaron Schock.^[4][5]

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Tea Party activist Renee Ellmers defeated Democratic Rep. Bob Etheridge by less than 1% of the vote in North Carolina’s second district.

A self-declared “product of the tea party,” Ellmers ran on an anti-health care and anti-stimulus platform: she comparedPresident Obama to “Louis XIV, the Sun King” andthat his administration is establishing “a socialistic form of government.” She blastedDemocrats for their “imperial ruling class attitude,” and referredto the economic stimulus plan as “massive government takeovers of the economy.”

Ellmers believesthat Obama puts the country at risk because he supposedly refuses “to recognize – and tell the American people – [that] he understands radical Islamic terrorism does exist.” She also launched an ugly and bigoted equating all Muslims with the 9/11 terrorists, [] arguing that the planned Islamic Community Center in Lower Manhattan is a “victory mosque” and a symbol of Muslim conquest:

Narrator: “After the Muslims conquered Jerusalem, and Cordoba and Constantinople, they built victory mosques. And now, they want to build a mosque near Ground Zero. Where does Bob Etheridge stand? He won’t say, won’t speak out, won’t take a stand.”

Ellmers: “The terrorists haven’t won, and we should tell them in plain English, ‘No, there will never be a mosque at Ground Zero.'”

In an interviewwith Anderson Cooper, she suggested that Obama’s foreign policy subtly shows support for terrorists by using foreign aid to build mosques. Cooper, however, pointed out that she was referring to a program started by President Bush that helps rebuild houses of worships including churches and temples. When Cooper asked if the Roman Catholic Church built a “victory church” in Rome over a Pagan temple, she took umbrage and asked Cooper if he was “anti-religion” or “anti-Christian.” Cooper replied: “That’s like the lowest response I have ever heard from a candidate, I have got to tell you.”

Defending her ad to right-wing radio talk show host Tammy Bruce, she said,”It’s time for elected officials to go to Washington who are ready to stand up for America.”

Ellmers says she decided to run for Congress after she started campaigning against health care reform with Americans for Prosperity, a corporate front group tied to the Koch brothers. She toldG. Gordon Liddy that the health care reform bill was “put in place simply to control our lives,” and maintainedthat “physicians are not going to be able to continue to practice” because of the reform law, which she said “is just a monster.”

According to Ellmers, insurance companies should be able to deny individuals coverage for pre-existing conditions. “Private insurance companies [should] decide how they’re going to handle the pre-existing conditions situation,” she said. Ellmers also attacked a requirement that insurance companies to cover maternity care and other health issues, callingsuch coverage “very costly.”

In a debate,Ellmers came out against emergency funding to protect the jobs of teachers, and suggested that diverting public funds towards private school vouchers through “school choice” would help prevent job losses among public school teachers.

She saidthat her plan to reduce the debt would be to cut taxes and end foreign aid. As a proponentof the “FairTax” she believes that the progressive income tax should be scrapped and replaced with a regressive national sales tax.

An avowed opponent of immigrant rights, Ellmers claimedthat Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer showed “the kind of leadership we have not seen in a long time” when she signed SB 1070, and suggested that Congress vote to defund the Department of Justice over their lawsuit against the draconian immigration law.

Ellmersthe conservative RedState blog that she is fiercely anti-choice and opposes the feminist movement. She was been endorsed by, Concerned Women for America, and the Susan B. Anthony List.

A Tea Party activist who smears minority groups for political gain and has no real plan to cut the deficit or save jobs, Renee Ellmers appears to exemplify many of the ugliest qualities of the Tea Party movement.

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claims broke but husb MD report 36K income or 0

2010 TP takeover, so has yet to cash in?

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going for #2 job http://dailyhaymaker.com/?p=2657**

ellmers brags:

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers has taken over as North Carolina's most conservative House member, according to the National Journal's annual analysis of congressional votes.

The freshman Republican from Dunn, who ran as a favorite of tea-party backers, was ranked 15th most conservative in the House. She beat out U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, a Cherryville Republican, and Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Banner Elk Republican, on the conservative ranking. McHenry ranked 20th; Foxx, 62nd.

U.S. Rep. Mel Watt, a Charlotte Democrat, was named the most liberal House member of the North Carolina delegation, followed by U.S. Rep. David Price, a Chapel Hill Democrat. Watt ranked 50th on the House liberal rankings; Price was at 112.

Among U.S. senators, Richard Burr, a Winston-Salem Republican, was ranked seventh most conservative. U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, was ranked the 32nd most liberal.

The ratings are based on 97 Senate votes and 105 House votes during 2011.

The analysis also reflected how polarized Congress is today.

"For the second year in a row, but only the third time in the 30 years that National Journal has published these ratings, no Senate Democrat compiled a voting record to the right of any Senate Republican, and no Republican came down on the left of any Senate Democrat," the magazine reports.

Representative Bob Etheridge, a North Carolina Democrat, fared worse. He was targeted by another McCarthy client, Americans for Job Security, a group that was founded, in 1997, with a million-dollar donation from the American Insurance Association. Public Citizen, the liberal reform group, filed a complaint with the F.E.C., calling it “a sham front group that would be better called Corporations Influencing Elections.” The F.E.C., deadlocked, took no action, but in Alaska state regulators forced the group to pay a twenty-thousand-dollar fine for operating as a corporate front that had “no purpose other than to cover various money trails.”*

In the summer of 2010, Etheridge, like Braley, found himself the victim of a video ambush. He was walking on Capitol Hill when two young men in suits approached him. One thrust a camera in his face and the other, holding a microphone, asked him whether he supported the “Obama agenda.” Taken aback, Etheridge demanded, “Who are you?” As Etheridge asked the question five times without getting an answer, he pushed the camera away and gripped his inquisitor.

Finally, the interviewer stammered, “I’m just a student, sir.”

“From?” Etheridge asked.

“The streets,” the interviewer answered.

Within days, a video of the confrontation, edited to make Etheridge seem unhinged, was posted on Andrew Breitbart’s conservative Web site, Big Government, under the headline “CONGRESSMAN ATTACKS STUDENT.” It went viral. Soon afterward, McCarthy inserted the video into an ad, called “Who Are You?,” in which people purporting to be from Etheridge’s district answered, “We’re your constituents,” and then accused Etheridge—inaccurately—of wanting to cut Medicare. It’s unclear who paid for the ad. Americans for Job Security avoids disclosing its funders by registering as a nonprofit trade association devoted to promoting “pro-paycheck” issues. It calls its revenue “membership dues,” and claims not to spend money on influencing elections. But, according to WRAL-TV news, in Raleigh, among the “pro-paycheck” projects its members paid for in 2010 was a three-hundred-and-sixty-thousand-dollar ad buy against Etheridge.

Etheridge narrowly lost the 2010 election to a nurse running with the support of Sarah Palin. The next day, the National Republican Congressional Committee, which had previously denied a role, acknowledged that it was behind the ambush video. It’s unclear how the video made its way into McCarthy’s attack ad, but the committee is one of his clients.

“They wanted to deceive people,” Etheridge says. “I have no idea who was behind it. You don’t know who’s doing it. There’s no name and no face.” He argues, “It really undermines people’s faith in democracy. That’s what’s sad. Everyone pays a price for the big, unregulated, undocumented money.” j mayer

 Republican U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers is mulling a bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in 2014, but has some obstacles to consider: a competitive primary field, attacks on her record and a so-far meager campaign war chest.

In the primary, Ellmers would face formidable challenges, especially if two top state lawmakers, state House Speaker Thom Tillis and state Senate President Phil Berger, decide to run.

Ellmers is calculating her options, but not talking about it publicly. Although she ran as a tea party-supported outsider and a long-shot in 2010, she soon aligned with the House Republican leadership.

She gained exposure and a seat on the important House Energy Committee. But she also got anger from the right.

The Club for Growth, a powerful conservative political action group, for one, is attacking her. The anti-tax group criticizes Ellmers on its website for a string of votes, including one to increase the debt ceiling in 2011, which also included large spending cuts, and another for a broad funding bill to avoid a government shutdown, which included money for the president’s health care plan.

“We don’t like her,” said spokesman Barney Keller. “The Club for GrowthPAC doesn’t support liberals like Renee Ellmers for Congress.”

That criticism is echoed on The Daily Haymaker, a conservative North Carolina blog by Brant Clifton. Meanwhile, Heritage Action, a conservative advocacy group, gives her a 63 percent approval rating on the seven votes it scored so far this year.

Other conservatives see her record differently. The American Conservative Union a 91 percent rating for 2012.

Ellmers shares positions on key issues with other Republican conservatives, including opposition to any new gun-control measures and a stance on immigration that emphasizes border security. She does not advocate a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

But even if Ellmers defends her conservative credentials successfully, she still would have to find a lot of supporters with fat wallets. In the first quarter of this year, she raised only $100,000.

Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/10/190945/rep-ellmers-weighs-campaign-to.html#storylink=cpy

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