29 Facts About Sharron Angle

Sharron Elaine Angle is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007.

Sharron Angle ran unsuccessfully as the 2010 Republican nominee for the US Senate seat in Nevada, garnering 44.6 percent of the vote.

In 1992, Angle was elected to the Nye County School Board of Trustees and served one term.

Sharron Angle re-registered as a Republican in 1997 after deciding to run for elected office.

Sharron Angle used her personal funds to defend the state constitution's two-thirds vote requirement to raise taxes and, with Eastman, took the case to Federal District Court in Nevada, which referred it to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and finally to the US Supreme Court.

Sharron Angle ultimately prevailed in the suit; in 2006, the state supreme court reversed its 2003 decision and restored the Nevada Constitution's two-thirds vote provision.

In 2003, Sharron Angle attempted to arrange a trip to an Ensenada, Baja California prison to assess a drug treatment program implemented there.

Sharron Angle arranged to visit a prison in New Mexico to assess the "Second Chance Program", which licensed its materials from Criminon, a program for rehabilitating prisoners using methods developed by Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard.

Sharron Angle sponsored legislation aimed at placing this program in certain women's prisons in Nevada.

Sharron Angle was criticized during the campaign for largely avoiding answering questions from the press, both local and national.

Sharron Angle herself promoted a similar bill in the Nevada Assembly but was not successful.

Sharron Angle has repeatedly denied "the rumor that she's a Scientologist", stating that the controversy had been "largely distorted".

On December 12,2010, Sharron Angle announced the formation of a PAC named the Patriot Caucus to "organize a ground game across most battleground states for the 2012 election cycle".

Sharron Angle became a member of the Nevada chapter of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies in 2006, and in 2007, while she was still polling third in a three-way race, received the endorsements of both the state and national organizations for her United States Senate run.

In September 2013, Sharron Angle was unanimously elected NFRA President at the group's national convention in Dallas, Texas.

Sharron Angle said that she would "probably" run for office again and she did not rule out running for the Senate again in 2016 when Harry Reid would be retiring.

Sharron Angle ran in the 2016 Republican primary, finishing a distant second to winner Joe Heck, who garnered 64.9 percent of the vote to Sharron Angle's 22.8 percent.

In March 2017, Sharron Angle announced that she would be running in the 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Nevada in Nevada's 2nd congressional district, seeking to unseat incumbent Republican congressman Mark Amodei.

Sharron Angle believes that households in which only one spouse works outside the home is the best way to raise a family.

Sharron Angle has said that the Social Security system should be "transitioned out".

Sharron Angle has stated that she opposes legalizing marijuana and has stated that she feels the same about alcohol.

Sharron Angle would have supported the three coal-fired plants in Ely.

Sharron Angle has cited the Second Amendment to reassert the right to keep and bear arms on several occasions.

Sharron Angle's goal is to go to Washington with other like-minded elected officials who understand the proper role of the federal government as already defined by our Constitution.

Sharron Angle was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon, and moved to Reno, Nevada, when she was three.

Sharron Angle's father is a Navy veteran of World War II and served in the Navy Reserve during the Korean War.

Sharron Angle attended public schools in Reno and later obtained a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Nevada.

Sharron Angle taught art for five years as a lecturer at Western Nevada Community College in Winnemucca.

Sharron Angle is the author of Right Sharron Angle: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim the Constitution, which was published in 2011.