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Courtney Geels
Courtney Geels (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent North Carolina's 4th Congressional District. She lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Geels completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Courtney Geels earned a B.S. in registered nursing from Bob Jones University in 2012. Geels' career experience includes working as a travel nurse, a registered nurse with NuWest Group Holdings, LLC, and an infusion nurse with Triangle Arthritis & Rheumatology Associates.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: North Carolina's 4th Congressional District election, 2022
North Carolina's 4th Congressional District election, 2022 (May 17 Democratic primary)
North Carolina's 4th Congressional District election, 2022 (May 17 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House North Carolina District 4
Valerie Foushee defeated Courtney Geels in the general election for U.S. House North Carolina District 4 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Valerie Foushee (D) | 66.9 | 194,983 |
 | Courtney Geels (R)  | 33.1 | 96,442 | |
| Total votes: 291,425 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 4
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 4 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Valerie Foushee | 46.1 | 40,806 |
 | Nida Allam | 37.0 | 32,731 | |
 | Clay Aiken | 7.4 | 6,529 | |
 | Ashley Ward | 5.4 | 4,767 | |
 | Richard Watkins | 1.3 | 1,155 | |
 | Crystal Cavalier | 1.3 | 1,116 | |
 | Stephen J. Valentine | 1.2 | 1,023 | |
| Matt Grooms | 0.5 | 435 | ||
| Total votes: 88,562 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 4
Courtney Geels defeated Robert Thomas in the Republican primary for U.S. House North Carolina District 4 on May 17, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Courtney Geels | 64.5 | 19,645 |
 | Robert Thomas | 35.5 | 10,793 | |
| Total votes: 30,438 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Szoka (R)
- Rene Borghese (R)
- Nat Robertson (R)
- Craig Kinsey (R)
- Erik Fredsell (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Courtney Geels completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Geels' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- God First
- Truth, Justice, and Unity in America
- Uphold the Constitution
Protection: Advocate for 2A;Secure our streets, borders, and funding for police
Advocate: Pro-life; voter integrity
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Campaign website
Geels' campaign website stated the following:
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INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS I WILL DEFEND FREEDOM I will fight to protect the rights of our citizens against the overreach of power from our federal government. We must protect our Individual and State rights against tyrannical politicians. I hold deeply to the truth that all people are created equal from the womb to the tomb. Each individual has equal worth, deserves equal rights and can expect to be represented equally. I stand with North Carolinians to maintain their freedom and power to decide what is best for them. I will fight to reduce the power that Bureaucrats in Washington are imposing on North Carolinians.
PARENTS RIGHTS I believe we must protect Parents Rights. Parents should have the right to choose a better school for their children. I support a statewide voucher system, where parents receive the education amount designated per child directly as a voucher. All federal money going to education should come in the form of a voucher that goes directly to the parent to take to any education facility of their choice: Public school, Private school, Charter school, or Homeschool. In addition, when I am elected, I will fight for a bill to state that the federal government would give NO money to states that do not agree to a state-wide education voucher system. I also support a voucher system to be distributed for 2 years of community college tuition. QUALITY EDUCATION Every Child has the right to a quality education, free from political ideology. Parents have a right to know what is being taught at their children’s school, therefore we need transparency. I stand against the teaching of CRT and Queer/Gender Theory in our schools.
MEDICAL FREEDOM Individuals have the freedom to choose if they are going to take the vaccine without a threat to their job. Federal vaccine mandates are restricting freedoms and causing healthcare worker shortages. The censorship of medical expert opinions in the public must end. Truth must be sought for all available treatments. There must be transparency regarding vaccine side effects and investigations into cover-ups. Pharmaceutical companies and businesses forcing mandates cannot be free from liability. NURSING EXPERIENCE As a registered nurse, every day I see the challenges faced by patients, their families, their providers, and the health organizations. Having traveled to Africa and other locations on medical missions through the Church to help those lacking care, I know that North Carolinians have more access and greater quality of care than in some parts of the world. HEALTH CARE RIGHTS But that doesn’t mean we should compromise on health care for ourselves and our loved ones, particularly for children and the elderly. I believe that need to reduce federal control over healthcare and return greater power to the states so they can address local priorities and needs. I support tax deductions for all non-reimbursable health care costs and reforms that give individuals, not the government, more power to make our healthcare decisions, like vaccine mandates. I will advocate for all Americans to have health insurance, while reforming Medicaid to include work requirements for qualification. MENTAL HEALTH It is undeniable that we have a mental health crisis in this country. There were already psychosocial needs prior to COVID, and from the isolation of the pandemic to the social awkwardness of masking and vaccination status, the separation of friends and families has taken a toll on all Americans. Some pediatricians have reported a significantly greater concern in the suicidal rate in children compared to the risk of COVID for children. We know that even before the pandemic, ER's were full of psychiatric patients with no mental health facilities to send them. As many psychiatric patients are uninsured, mental health facilities are under too much strain to have the funding to comply with all the current regulations on them. I support funding for building and staffing more mental health facilities and decreasing the regulations necessary to keep these facilities open.
SECURE BORDERS AND CITIES From the U.S. borders to North Carolina’s streets, we must ensure that our families and communities are safe. I will support strong laws that keep violent and dangerous criminals in prison, countering the coddling of criminals that liberals love to do. I know that law-abiding citizens should be America’s priority. We must provide the support and resources for law enforcement and oppose any efforts to defund the police. Police officers should be able to enforce the law without concern for consequence related to their job status. Updated training methods are needed for law enforcement, but the majority of police staff treat every person fairly. IMMIGRANTS It is unjust to have an open border where hundreds of thousands of undocumented illegal immigrants can enter the US with no way of controlling lawlessness, drugs, and human trafficking. America was built by immigrants, and they should be welcomed by following legal procedures to be sure to not overwhelm the healthcare and education system, and to preserve law and order. PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP As our declaration of independence declares, I support improving pathways to citizenship for foreign immigrants, while I believe it is absolutely necessary for the safety of our country to secure our borders and prevent illegal immigration. We cannot tolerate drug and human trafficking of any kind. If I am elected, I would push for assessment of current population in US who are undocumented, and pushing for sponsorships of employers to help to legalize those illegal immigrants who pose no threat to society. I believe the majority of immigrants want to work and live in a free society. Our country was built on immigration. Most Americans come from immigrants from other countries. It is also economical to legalize and tax those immigrants as they become part of American society, infrastructure, economy, education, and healthcare.
100% PRO-LIFE I stand for the Right to Life and against abortion. This killing of unborn human beings in the womb must be stopped. I believe in the sanctity of life and to put an end to the abortion industry. We must argue in Congress to pass bills to end tax payer dollars funding abortion. When we gain a majority in Congress, I will vote to defund planned Parenthood. I am in full support of funding crisis pregnancy centers who help women in a crisis pregnancy. I also believe that subsidizing adoption with government money will be part of the solution to support families and to save the lives of these babies.
FAIR AND HONEST ELECTIONS Our democracy is dependent on this most basic of civil rights. The most important right we have in our democracy is to vote in a fair and honestly run election. Election integrity is best handled at a state level. Voting Reform will improve election integrity. I will fight for transparency and voting rights for every legal citizen. We must continue to investigate and hold the election board accountable to run an honest election. We must keep laws in place to prevent people or entities with dishonest intentions from committing fraud and impacting our elections. A photo ID is needed for many things in life and a requirement for ID for each voter protects against voter fraud.
SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS I will preserve our constitutional right to bear arms. The constitution says the right to bear arms shall not be infringed upon. Our constitution guarantees our right to protect and defend ourselves from harm. We must maintain that right. Our right to carry arms symbolizes our liberty and allows us to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government. Any law that is infringing the right to bear arms should be repealed. Red flag laws are unconstitutional. All people have the right to due process. If a court deems a person, mentally unstable and unable to own a firearm, that is proper process. There are several issues about protecting the right to bear arms. SAFETY ISSUE Basic safety for states such as Alaska, and for those who live in rural areas of the US, including North Carolina use guns for safety from animals, and armed thieves, who if they had no defense would not have time to wait for police to arrive. FREEDOM ISSUE As stated in the constitution, “A well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state,” I believe if we do not have the right to bear arms, we will no longer be a free country. If you talk to any immigrant coming from a communist country, they will tell you that the people do not have guns. We must protect this right. PROTECTION ISSUE Those who are breaking laws with guns are going to break laws with guns if they are made entirely illegal. Criminals will get guns illegally. We must protect the law-abiding citizens’ right to defend themselves.
TRUE JUSTICE I believe we need to reform the laws that make sentencing unfair. I also support Law enforcement and believe we need to protect them. Equal Justice Under the Law Equal justice under the law for people of all race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation is a Right. The 1994 Crime bill, also known as Three Strikes you’re Out needs to be reformed to address the discriminatory verbiage in it. Law Enforcement Support We must fund and support our law enforcement so that they have the ability to enforce the laws and protect the citizens. We need law enforcement at all levels and should seek solutions in public relations within the communities they protect. I support the Back the Blue Act which increased the penalties for criminals who intentionally target law enforcement officers. Police officers should be able to enforce the law without concern for consequence related to their job status. We have a huge problem with crime all over the country, but especially in Durham, NC. Some Police officers do not feel they can respond and act on crime around them. I have been told by law enforcement, that when they get the 911 call to go to a scene, they first call their supervisor to ask what to do before even going to the scene. This delay is a problem in an emergency, and it is a terrifying related that crime can go unchecked. I support our law enforcement at the local, state and federal levels and will seek to find solutions for better public relations with the communities they protect.[2] |
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| —Courtney Geels' campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Candidate U.S. House North Carolina District 4 |
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Footnotes
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Courtney Geels," accessed April 22, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Courtney Geels for U.S. Congress, “Issues,” accessed April 22, 2022
