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SUMMERS ANNOUNCES HIS RUN FOR THE
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 2, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ruth Summers, (207) 332-0111
PORTLAND, Maine – Charlie Summers
will be joined by Congressman Thad McCotter (R-MI)
as he makes his official announcement to seek the
Republican nomination for Congress in Maine’s First
Congressional District.
The
announcement will take place on Tuesday, July 3,
Eggspecations Restaurant, South Portland, 10am.
Media is requested to arrive by 9:30 a.m.
Congressman McCotter is Chairman of the Republican
House Policy Committee, a leadership position once
held by former President Gerald Ford and Vice
President Dick Cheney. Congressman McCotter is also
a member of the House Financial Services Committee,
where he serves on the Capital Markets, Insurance,
and Government Sponsored Enterprises and the Housing
and Community Opportunity subcommittees.
Summers
has more than two decades of experience in federal
and state government. Since 2005, he served as New
England Regional Administrator of the U.S. Small
Business Administration. In this role, he set small
business policy for the region, worked with
countless small business proprietors to help resolve
and meet their needs, and oversaw administrative
district offices in Connecticut , Maine ,
Massachusetts , New Hampshire , Rhode Island , and
Vermont .
Summers
resigned from his SBA post on June 8th
after the Navy recalled him to active duty.
Summers, a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy,
will be stationed in Baghdad attached to a joint
command participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom
attached to Navy Strategic Communications.
In 2004,
Summers won the Republican nomination in the First
District Congressional race, securing a higher
percentage of the vote than any previous challenger
to Democratic incumbent Tom Allen. Previously, he
served for nine years as State Director for U.S.
Senator Olympia J. Snowe, and before that served two
terms in the Maine State Senate representing Maine’s
Senate District 31 (Saco, Scarborough, Old Orchard
Beach, and Dayton).
Summers
and his wife, Ruth, reside in Scarborough and have
two children; Tricia who works in New York and Chas,
a Midshipman at the US Naval Academy.
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