Sharron Angle Elected NFRA President

Sharron Angle

DALLAS, TEXAS, - Sharron Angle, 2010 U.S. Senate Nominee from Nevada and Chairman of OurVoicePAC, has been elected by acclamation as the fifth President of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA). The election was held Sunday, September 15, at the close of the NFRA National Convention in Dallas, Texas.

Rep. Angle was the NFRA endorsed candidate in the Nevada Republican primary and against Senator Harry Reid in 2010. She has served as NFRA’s Pacific Region Vice President from 2011-2013 and as Nevada Republican Assembly President from 2012-2013. Angle began her career in public service with her election to the Nye County School Board of Trustees in 1992, and was elected to the Nevada State Assembly in 1998, where she served until 2007.

On her election, the obviously moved Angle told the assembled convention delegates, “I am humbled and honored to serve the NFRA and further its mission of reforming the Republican Party. I have big shoes to fill!”

Angle succeeds former PayPal executive and three-term President Rod D. Martin. Martin told the convention, “This organization matters, and I have given it no small part of my life. I could not be happier that we have elected Sharron Angle today. She is the perfect leader for this time and this mission, and I will be behind her all the way.”

Other officers newly elected at the convention include: Nicholas Stehle of Arkansas, Treasurer; Charlotte Reed of Arizona, Western Region Vice President; and Willes Lee of Hawaii, Pacific Region Vice President. Jennifer Wortham of Florida, immediate past treasurer, was elected Secretary and Assistant Treasurer. Officers reelected to office include: Ambassador Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio, Executive Vice President; Thomas Hudson, California, Vice President for Special Projects; William Federer, Missouri, Midwestern Region Vice President; Robert Cahaly, South Carolina, Southern Region Vice President; James Dickey, Texas, South Central Region Vice President; William Ricci, Virginia, Eastern Region Vice President; Michael Potaski, Massachusetts, Northeastern Region Vice President; and David Jeffers, Florida, Sergeant-At-Arms.

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) is a grassroots political organization which promotes conservative principles and candidates within the Republican Party. Members at the local, state and national levels work to recruit and elect Republican candidates who reflect the Party’s conservative philosophy, and to oppose "RINOs" (Republicans In Name Only), leaders and candidates who take positions to the left of the party's conservative mainstream.

Republican Assemblies have three main purposes: to recruit activists into the Republican Party, to elect conservative leadership to party offices, and to endorse and work for the nomination of conservative candidates in party primaries. Ronald Reagan called the Republican Assemblies "the conscience of the Republican Party," while others have called them "the Tea Party before there was a Tea Party."

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