Tag: Renee Ellmers

Renee Ellmers: live and in living color

Posted on March 11, 2012March 12, 2012 by Brant Clifton

One of the first people I bumped into at Saturday’s Moore GOP event was our new Member of Congress, Renee Ellmers of Dunn. Ellmers won a close race

Renee Ellmers getting back to her Tea Party roots

Posted on March 9, 2012March 9, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers has re-discovered her Tea Party roots just in time for the 2nd congressional district’s GOP primary. Many political observers say the work

Ellmers slams state’s I-95 toll proposal

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Can I get an Amen? My congresswoman and I are singing from the same sheet of music on this issue of tolls on I-95. I dealt with these

Ellmers sets her sights on ObamaCare

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Congresswoman Renee Ellmers — an RN married to an MD — has got a true insiders perspective on American healthcare and government bureaucracy’s effect on

Campaign 2012: Confused? Lost?

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Brant Clifton

Our local paper reported the other day that Congresswoman Renee Ellmers was campaigning in Moore County. However, according to her official web site, neither Southern Pines nor Moore

National Journal: Ellmers is NC’s most conservative Member of Congress

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Brant Clifton

National Journal, the non-partisan national publication dedicated to daily coverage of the U.S. Congress, has released its annual ideological rankings of Members of Congress. It appears that the Tar

You GO, girl !!! …

Posted on February 8, 2012February 8, 2012 by Brant Clifton

(That’s what they say on Jerry Springer when offering enthusiastic encouragement to a female.) I’m having second thoughts on U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers. We’ve been a little tough on

Time for Sally Struthers to leave Africa and go film a commercial on Capitol Hill?

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I’ve heard of Feed The Children, but FEED THE CONGRESSMEN? It’s clearly a slow news time here at the end of the year. The Washington Post did a story

GOP in DC waves the white flag on limited government and fiscal sanity

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Brant Clifton

Well — looking back at the developments in DC this past week — we learned that we cannot count on John Boehner, Richard Burr, Howard Coble, or Renee Ellmers to

Ellmers-Etheridge: The Sequel ???

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Brant Clifton

I’ve believed for some time that Bob Etheridge was planning a comeback bid in North Carolina’s Second Congressional District, now held by freshman Republican Renee Ellmers. The man