#NC-02: 77 percent of Ellmers 2015 $$$ from PACs
That’s right. According to congresswoman Renee Ellmers’s filings with the FEC, roughly 77 percent of her 2015 fundraising came from PACs and other assorted special interest groups.
From January 1 through June 30, the congresswoman’s campaign took in a whopping $365,000 from lobbyists, PACs and other assorted political committees. She’s reporting $98,510 in itemized individual contributions and $7,764 in non-itemized individual contributions.
Surveying the list of PAC donors, it’s interesting to see just how many of them are tied to health care delivery or health insurance. Of course, that may help explain the overwhelmingly medical flavor of bills she has sponsored in the House thus far in 2015.
Interestingly, there is a group called the “2015 SXSW GOP Committee” that has transferred money into the Ellmers campaign treasury. We did a little research and found this organization is primarily a political operation tied to the Dell and Honeywell technology companies. They appear to have only donated to FIVE members of the House: Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA), Erik Paulsen (R-MN), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), and Ellmers. Paulsen, Ellmers, and Diaz-Balart each got $6,046 from the group. McMorris-Rodgers got $6,075 and Kinzinger got $6834.
Ellmers has been big on the issue of “the smart grid.” Interestingly, Dell AND Honeywell have smart grid technology as a significant part of their business plans.
We need a new version of the Pacman game. This one would be PAC Woman and have a head of Ellmers going around the screen gobbling up dollar signs, and being chased by Jim Duncan.
Ellmers is all pay for play and that is why her voting record is so liberal. She has yet to meet a special interest she would not sell out to.
Lookie. NC’s Abortion-Barbie is looking for cover:
http://blackburn.house.gov/uploadedfiles/pp_doj_final.pdf
Ellmers is also shilling for more STEM H1B foreign guest workers …..
….because we don’t have enough American STEM workers out of work and students graduating who cannot find jobs.
Ellmers reminds me of the Cindy Lauper song: True Colors.
She runs as a conservative, and promises to go to Washington to make a difference; but once there, she shows her “true colors”.
That’s why the US Congress is in the dumps on every public opinion poll.