2nd District Congresswoman is Seen as a Top Potential Challenger to Sen. Kay Hagan in 2014
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The Gaston GOP is proud to announce that United States Congresswoman Renee Ellmers has been confirmed as a speaker for the 2013 Gaston County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner.
The dinner will be held on Saturday February 23rd at 6:00pm at the Gastonia Conference Center – 145 South Marietta Street, Gastonia.
Congresswoman Ellmers was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2010, defeating seven-term Democrat incumbent Bob Etheridge, and is currently serving her second term representing the second district of North Carolina. She is one of the top names being talked about as a possible challenger to Democrat US Senator Kay Hagan in 2014.
For more than twenty-one years before being elected to Congress, Mrs. Ellmers served as a registered nurse, focusing on surgical care as Clinical Director of the Trinity Wound Care Center.
After being elected to her second term in 2012, Congresswoman Ellmers was appointed to the House Energy and Commerce Committee where she serves on the Health, Communications and Technology, and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees.
Congresswoman Ellmers has always been a proactive leader in her community, where she instinctively incorporated new solutions and innovative tactics to make people’s lives better. Before her election to Congress, Ellmers had been a champion of community affairs, having served as Vice President of Community Development for the Dunn Chamber of Commerce and as President-Elect of the Chamber. She has also served on the Dunn Planning Board, the board of the Betsy Johnson Hospital Foundation and the Harnett County Nursing Home Committee.
Originally born and raised in Michigan, Congresswoman Ellmers is a graduate of Oakland University where she received her degree in nursing. Mrs. Ellmers and her husband Brent moved to North Carolina following the birth of their son Ben and have resided in Harnett County ever since.
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