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Ameri Seeks Oregon's First District Seat

 
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2004 9:48 pm    Post subject: Ameri Seeks Oregon's First District Seat Reply with quote

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Candidate Spotlights
Goli Ameri (OR-01)


Touted early on as a prodigious fundraiser, Goli Ameri has amassed a $1 million war chest since beginning her campaign to unseat Democrat Rep. David Wu in Oregon’s First Congressional District race. Her fundraising, coupled with her experience, grace and intelligence, give Republicans good reason to believe that the First Congressional seat could soon be in GOP hands.


Ameri’s impressive business credentials make her an ideal candidate but her personal history provides a vivid example of what it means to live the American dream. The Iranian-born Ameri left Iran in 1973 during the Islamic Revolution to come to the United States where she earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in communications from Stanford University. After graduating, Ameri pursued a business career and later became a Director in U.S. Leasing, a former division of Ford Motor Company and Fleet Bank. Eventually, Ameri founded eTinium, a consulting and market research firm specializing in the telecommunications industry, of which she is now president.


Ameri’s personal drive and well-roundedness earned her the primary election endorsement of The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in Oregon as well as scores of local community and business leaders.


In their endorsement of Ameri, The Oregonian writes, “This year the GOP has an opportunity to send a candidate with broad appeal into the fall election in the 1st District. That candidate is Goli Ameri.”


If elected, Ameri would be the first Iranian-American elected to the House of Representatives. Her priorities include building a stronger economy, creating more and better-paying jobs and preserving the unique way of life Oregonians enjoy. She believes that lower taxes on families and business result in greater economic growth, more jobs and higher salaries with more benefits. Ameri’s campaign was instrumental in gathering the signatures necessary to qualify a referendum against a $1.1 billion tax increase passed earlier this year by Oregon's Legislature.


Ameri is a member of the National Education for Women’s (NEW) Leadership Oregon at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University and is a past member of the Oregon Republican Party and an Oregon delegate to the National Republican Women's Conference. She also has been a long-time supporter of the Providence Child Center, the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Women's Health Center, Oregon Alzheimer's Association, Portland Firefighters Association and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.


In addition to receiving her master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Stanford, Ameri studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France and is fluent in French and Persian and also has a working knowledge of Spanish. Ameri has been married for 24 years to Jim Ameri, and has two sons, Darius, 19, and Sherwin, 14. She is an avid runner, skier, traveler and reader of politics and policy-related non-fiction as well as modern fiction.
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