It’s now certain that Renee Ellmers will represent North Carolina’s 2nd Congressional District in the 112th Congress. The News & Observer has a worthy synopsis of Ellmers freshman orientation in Washongton, D.C., this week.
Among the anecdotes:
She has collected a handful of mentors, including conservative U.S. Reps. Patrick McHenry of Cherryville, Virginia Foxx of Banner Elk and Walter Jones of Farmville. Advice ranges from how to hire staff to the proper placement of lapel jewelry.
Ellmers recalled, laughing, how Foxx walked up to her this week and ordered her to switch her congressional lapel pin from the right to the left side of her jacket. (“No one looks at your right side,” Ellmers quoted Foxx as saying.) Foxx also gave her a line on a possible apartment a few blocks from Capitol Hill.
What better place for a freshman conservative congresswoman to wear her lapel pin than the right?
