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Shelane Etchison
An Army veteran from Moore County says she has collected enough signatures to run for Congress as an independent, which would make her the first to achieve that.
Shelane Etchison says her campaign collected more than 12,000 signatures in just over one month.
On Wednesday she announced she was officially launching her campaign to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson in the 9th District in the fall general election. Also running is Democrat Nigel William Bristow of Hamlet.
“Politicians today care more about their political party than they care about solving real problems.” Etchison said. “People here in North Carolina deserve better. It’s time for a new generation of leaders who are practical, not political. Leaders who listen to you, stand with you, and serve for you.”
The redrawn 9th District covers all of Randolph County; sections of southern, eastern and northeastern Guilford County; all of Alamance, Moore and Hoke counties; and parts of Cumberland and Chatham counties.
Etchison served 11 years in the Army and spent most of her career in Special Operations, based at Fort Bragg, now Fort Liberty. She was one of the first women selected to support Army Rangers on direct combat missions in Afghanistan. She also deployed to Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. While she was in the Army, Etchison made her home in Cumberland and Moore Counties.
After her service, Etchison became a Pat Tillman Scholar, earning a MBA and a public policy degree from Harvard. She returned to Moore County when she completed the program, working as a security consultant both in the U.S. and abroad.
