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About Elissa,

Elissa began her career as a registered nurse providing care at the Turning point, a leading drug addiction treatment provider, offering medical detoxification and drug rehabilitation for those suffering from the disease of alcoholism and drug addiction. Elissa received a B.A. in Psychology from Pace University.

Elissa is married and has one daughter. Elissa has lived in major cities in New York, Georgia, Florida, Connecticut, Texas, and now calls North Carolina home where she has resided since 2013.

Elissa’s citizen-activist political career began in Hartford, Connecticut. The city nicknamed, “the Insurance Capitol of the world” has failing infrastructure, high crime, high taxes, failing public schools, and lack of common sense policies and leadership. Elissa was Vice Chair of the Hartford Republican town committee. In that role Elissa supported the campaign of Martha Dean for Attorney General, and worked on the successful grass roots effort to remove Senator Chris Dodd. Elissa had the opportunity to engage former Senator Chris Dodd at the Naval Submarine base in Groton Connecticut. Her passion in the culinary arts enabled her to prepare,provide,and share meals for the residents of Hartford’s Catherine’s Place-a transitional housing program for homeless women

Upon her relocation to Texas, Elissa supported HB-1129 a successful bill enabling our deployed soldiers the ability to electronically vote from the battlefield. She presented to the committee support for the bill with overwhelming acceptance. She supported the campaign to elect Bexar County’s first female retired Air Force Major General Susan Pamerleau 2012.

The move to North Carolina, gave her proximity to Washington D.C. where Elissa is proud to routinely confront our elected officials when they empower policies that infringe on our freedom.

In Durham, she recognized many of the same issues that the City of Hartford faced and was troubled by the lack of common sense proactive solutions.

Elissa believes we need to support our police, give our youth an opportunity for a future, and engage the community to stop crime, unleash job creators from over regulation, and improve our vetting procedures for immigrants. Elissa is running for the house seat to support a change in direction in Durham District 30 in North Carolina on the following Issues:

1) Jobs/Economy/ Taxes:, 2-Crime:, 3) Sanctuary cities & immigration:, 4) Energy:, 5) Education& School vouchers, Common Core:, 6) National Security:, 7)Healthcare:

LIST OF ISSUES

1) Jobs/Economy/ Taxes : Taxes-Economic success by keeping taxes low is a model for a foundation that allows employers to create jobs and opportunity for hardworking families. I will focus on keeping taxes low and regulations smart and predictable. I support a legal system that doesn’t allow for frivolous lawsuits (loser pays) and I will support policies that ensure a skilled and educated workforce. HB-549-will hurt small businesses. Rep.Luebke is a co-sponsor of HB-549. When businesses leave North Carolina entry level jobs leave with them. Rep. Luebke voted NO on HB-101—Repeals the Estate Tax. It passed.

I look forward to returning the work ethic to the center of North Carolina life by empowering welfare-to work initiatives that will cut welfare rolls and move people from dependency on the government to the dignity of self-sufficiency. This can be accomplished and paid for without raising taxes by creating necessary city and town jobs and requiring able bodied unemployed people on welfare to go to work to collect a paycheck and not a welfare check.

2-Crime: No one wants to open a business in a high crime area. Empower our police force by supporting stop- question-and-frisk as a police tactic. Stop-question-and-frisk has been around forever. It’s based on a Supreme Court case from 1968, Terry v. Ohio, which focused very significantly on it. Stop- question-and-frisk is such a basic tool of policing. It’s one of the most fundamental practices in American policing. If cops are not doing stop-question-and-frisk, they are not doing their jobs. Stop-question-and-frisk is not a tool solely to look for guns. Unfortunately, people refer to it that way, and that’s a problem because so few guns are recovered. You want to stop bad behavior such as disorderly conduct. Police officers notice what may be a burglary. Of course they should be noticing and investigating. There are countless examples of what we want police to do.

We need to support our police force and give them the respect and authority they deserve. The police are no longer engaging in controlling behavior in the streets for fear of retribution. They need to be supported to take action against minor offenses. It has to be done respectfully, and it has to be done consistently time and again. But it has to be done.

HB-1403—Collecting DNA sample upon arrest. Luebke voted No. Passed

3) Sanctuary cities & immigration: Thanks to Governor Pat McCrory for signing HB 318 and special thanks again goes to Rep Cleveland and Rep Millis in particular for their sponsorship and considerable effort. HB 318 will stop sanctuary cities in North Carolina, tighten somewhat our State E-Verify law, and deny official use of foreign consular documents. Sadly our State still has high real unemployment. The U.S. Department of Labor Statistics U-6 measure of unemployment for North Carolina is 10%. The labor participation rate of people working between the ages of 16 and 65 in our State is at one of the lowest levels since the federal government began tracking the rate in 1976. Illegal immigration is hurting our unemployment rate. I strongly believe in the rule of law and enforcing our existing immigration laws. There is no job that an American won’t do.

HB-318 Luebke Voted NO.

4) Energy: No “blood for oil.” We need dependable energy for everything in life. From heating an incubator in a hospital nursery to cooking dinner. I grew up near the Hudson River and the Indian Point Nuclear Plant where clean energy is provides electricity to the beautiful Hudson Valley.

5) Education& School vouchers, Common Core: The state should provide vouchers to parents who choose private (K-12) schools for their children. Rep. Luebke opposes school vouchers. I am against Common Core. Rep.Luebke voted NO on SB-812-Repeals Common Core. Passed

6) National Security: SB-455 Iran Divestment Act—Rep.Luebke was one of only 4 democrat legislators who voted against North Carolina’s effort to divest from the radical terrorist Iranian regime.

7)Healthcare: The Veteran’s Administration is a perfect example of government run healthcare. The current scandal has exposed that the VA’s finances are in a mess and the wait times for a veteran to see a physician average 30 days. Last year’s VA Reform bill was supposed to give vets a choice in their care but the Veterans of Foreign Wars found that only 1/3 of sick vets were able to go outside the VA. Vets are waiting over a month for follow-up care from surgeries requiring physical therapy that should be started a couple of days post surgery.