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	Goli Ameri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Goli Ameri (in Persian:گلی عامری) (nee Goli Yazdi) is a Republican Iranian-American businesswoman who ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon.
		Ameri, though reluctant intially to focus on the issue, heavily pushed it in the closing days of her campaign.
		Ameri was later appointed by George W. Bush as one of three public members of the United States' delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which meets annually in Geneva, Switzerland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goli_Ameri (638 words)

	U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights
		Ameri was the Republican candidate for Congress in Oregon’s first district during the 2004 election cycle and distinguished herself as the top challenger in the country, winning her primary in a landslide.
		Ameri has a keen interest in world-wide democratic movements and is a co-founder of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, examining the conditions and prospects for democracy in Iran.
		Ameri is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for American Women in Politics at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University and she has been an Oregon delegate to the National Republican Women’s Conference.
	humanrights-usa.com /2005/bios/ameri.htm (386 words)

	Ms. Ameri Seeks To Send Quite a Signal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ameri said she is a staunch supporter of the war on terror and President Bush’s efforts against Al Qaeda.
		Ameri said she detested the former Iranian leader,Ayatollah Khomeini, but she said his observation that America was sluggish to respond to provocations was fundamentally correct.
		Ameri said the concern she expressed in 1998 about American procedures for issuing visas to Iranians has largely been resolved by a new policy that requires visitors from all countries to be photographed and fingerprinted.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/05/18&ID=Ar00101 (1367 words)

	Foreign-Born Candidates Compete for US House Seat in Oregon
		Ameri is Iranian and Representative Wu is the only member of Congress born in China.
		Ameri as a spokesperson for President Bush's policies, such as the war in Iraq and the Patriot Act.
		Goli Ameri hopes to tap into that anger with a campaign pledge to increase trade with the Pacific Rim.
	www.parstimes.com /news/archive/2004/voa/ameri_congress.html (842 words)

	Goli Ameri
		Goli Ameri is the founder and president of eTinium, a consulting and market research firm specializing in the telecommunications industry and advising such firms as Lucent Technologies and Nortel Networks.
		She was born in Tehran, Iran in 1956 and came to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Stanford University.
		Ameri’s deep understanding of American politics is largely a result of her broad experience over the years.
	www.iranianamericanpac.org /candidates/2004_iapac/IA_C06.shtml (392 words)

	eTinium
		Goli Ameri is the founder and president of eTinium, an international boutique consulting and market research firm specializing in the telecommunications market.
		Ameri is quoted regularly in such publications as RCR Wireless News, Wireless Week, Internet Week, EE Times, the national Business Journals, city newspapers such as The San Jose Mercury News, The Seattle Times, and The Oregonian, among others, as well as Multex Investor, Internet Telephony, and the X-Change magazine.
		Ameri is invited regularly as a speaker to industry conferences and symposia worldwide including CTIA, Stanford University's US-Asia Technology Management Center, SuperNet, Metro Optical Conference, National Wireless Engineering Conference, 802.11b and SMI Conferences in Europe.
	www.etinium.net /aboutus.cfm (411 words)

	portland imc - 2004.10.12 - The Oregonian's Endorsed Candidate Goli Ameri: "Refugee" or Elitist?
		Goli Ameri has succeeded in portraying herself with a "refugee" fable rather then the reality of a privileged, European-educated college student who got stuck in America during the fall of Iranian monarchy and revolutionary displacement of a royalist elite that included her family.
		Goli Ameri arrived in the United States in 1974 at the time when the Shah's regime was still in power.
		On another significant, and especially for American Muslims it is noteworthy that the Iranian-born Goli Ameri was sworn-in by Bolton while her husband held the Bible, NOT the Koran (see www.un.int/usa/ga60-ameri%20bio.htm for a photograph of her swearing).
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/10/299735.shtml (3302 words)

	CSE Endorses Goli Ameri for U.S. House
		Salem, OR - Today, Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) endorsed Goli Ameri, a Republican for the U.S. House of Representatives in Oregon’s First District, and recognized her as a 2004 Champion of Freedom.
		CSE is recognizing Goli Ameri based on her long record as a champion of lower taxes, less government, and more freedom, and for her responses to CSE’s 2004 Freedom Survey, which re-affirmed her deep commitment to these principles.
		Ameri is clearly the right choice for Oregonians in their U.S. House First District race this year.
	www.cse.org /newsroom/press_template.php?press_id=813 (328 words)

	News
		Ameri’s highly organized team, backed by an extensive coalition of entrepreneurs who support her pro-growth economic positions, have a real opportunity to win the first district which has been dominated by Democrats for twenty-eight years.
		Ameri hopes to attract moderates in the district with her realistic positions on critical issues such as the economy, jobs, education, and healthcare.
		Ameri’s High-Tech Advisory Council is designed to emphasize the importance of the high tech sector in Oregon and to advise Goli on issues relevant to the industry, which pays 28% of the state’s corporate taxes and high-tech employees pay 13% of personal income taxes.
	www.iranianamericanpac.org /news/print.php?str=rL0y6YcR3i6P8P9H (1049 words)

	© the eyeranian: And The Mud Flies! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ameri correct the GOP or is it too much to her benefit for the average American to confuse -- especially in the post 9/11 climate -- her voluntary emigration to the US as a self-described student at age 17 with some sort of freedom-seeking refuge from the revolution of the ayatollahs.
		Goli should be able to be whatever she wants: Muslim, Zoroastrian, Christian, Buddhist, Atheist...and we shouldn't have to have to "relate" to her religion in order to make a decision about supporting her.
		Goli Ameri: I lived in Iran until I was 17, although I was in England and Switzerland for a few summers going to school there.
	www.eyeranian.net /2004/01/17,692.shtml (3573 words)

	portland imc - 2004.08.15 - Hastert Campaigning for Goli Ameri on Aug 16
		Goli Ameri's campaign website has announced that GOP House Speaker Dennis Hastert will join her for a press conference on Monday, August 16th at 9:30 am at the Benson Hotel in Portland.
		Joining Hastert and Ameri will be "a number of veterans troubled by David Wu's record on national security issues." Ameri has made her fervent support of Bush's War policies in Muslim countries a cornerstone of her campaign for Congress opposite Democratic incumbent David Wu.
		Meanwhile Ameri's hawkishness has sparked a contoversy in the Iranian-American community over whether she is willing to sign a pledge to oppose a pre-emptive strike against her native Iran.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/08/294794.shtml (192 words)

	IRVAJ English - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ameri said she understands the culture in which religious extremists and terrorists live, and she knows that to beat them takes strength and resolve.
		Ameri was one of those students, joining many of her classmates at an international high school in successfully applying to a U.S. university.
		Ameri, who has returned to Iran once with her children, is a staunch supporter of the war on terrorism and the conflict in Iraq.
	www.iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=05&d=05&a=7 (1150 words)

	U.S. Mission To Italy
		Ameri, an Oregon businesswoman, drew on her recent experience as a delegate to the 61st session of the UNCHR in Geneva to discuss ways to advance the human rights agenda, including reforming the human rights commission.
		Ameri acknowledged that “in the past, the U.S. might have been more critical of certain regimes and not sufficiently [critical] of others.” She quoted President Bush, who said, “We will not repeat the mistakes of the past, appeasing or excusing tyranny and sacrificing freedom in the vain pursuit of stability.”
		Ameri also commented on the wave of political and democratic change occurring in the world, such as Georgia’s Rose Revolution and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.
	www.usembassy.it /viewer/article.asp?article=/file2005_07/alia/a5072112.htm (659 words)

	NIAC - Boston 2004: Inside the Democratic National Convention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Goli was born in Tehran, Iran in 1956 and came to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Stanford University.
		Goli is a past trustee and Vice Chair for Development at the Catlin Gabel School, overseeing fundraising activities for the Upper School campaign, scholarship fund and teacher education.
		Goli was also recently knighted by the Portland Rose Queen as a Rosarian in recognitions of her contributions to the Portland area community.
	www.niacouncil.org /2004/Bios/bio_ameri.asp (562 words)

	National Iranian American Council - NIAC - Washington DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ameri served on the Executive Committee of the San Francisco and Oregon Republican Parties and was an Oregon delegate to the National Republican Women's Conference.
		Ameri has been named as one of the National Republican Campaign Committee’s super six candidates; according to Federal Election Commission reports, Goli Ameri is ranked number one among Congressional candidates challenging incumbents in the amount of money her campaign has raised--over $650,000 in total contributions.
		Ameri agreed to an exclusive interview with NIAC to discuss her historic run for the U.S. Congress.
	www.niacouncil.org /pressreleases/press159.asp (1701 words)

	the eyeranian » Mud Flying Continues? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ameri, at age 17, voluntarily entered the US with a student visa, SHE is the one who has put out this varying info — not anyone who has written on this blog.
		Ameri to rant and rave against the revolution that persecuted her family and “destroyed a nation” as one of her campaign ads says, and then innocently visit the Islamic republic, admittedly, on at least 2 occasions (reference yet again that Willamette Week interview).
		Ameri’ opposition several years ago to fingerprinting Iranian visitors to the US came up in her primary race, and continues to be an issue in the general election.
	www.eyeranian.net /?p=956 (9003 words)

	NRCC: National Republican Congressional Committee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ameri’s impressive business credentials make her an ideal candidate but her personal history provides a vivid example of what it means to live the American dream.
		Ameri’s campaign was instrumental in gathering the signatures necessary to qualify a referendum against a $1.1 billion tax increase passed earlier this year by Oregon's Legislature.
		Ameri is a member of the National Education for Women’s (NEW) Leadership Oregon at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University and is a past member of the Oregon Republican Party and an Oregon delegate to the National Republican Women's Conference.
	www.nrcc.org /nrcc_contents/tools/spotlights/ameri.shtml (480 words)

	Boston.com / News / Politics / Congressional hopeful touts Iran heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ameri is one of three Republicans seeking the right in Tuesday's primary to run against three-term Democratic incumbent Rep. David Wu in what could become a battle between immigrants.
		Ameri's use of her Iranian heritage has boosted her name recognition in the race in the 1st Congressional district.
		Ameri, 47, so far has raised about $1 million, including $550,000 from Iranian-Americans from throughout the country, according to her campaign.
	www.boston.com /news/politics/us_house/articles/2004/05/16/congressional_hopeful_touts_iran_heritage?mode=PF (484 words)

	Goli Ameri
		Goli Ameri is the founder and president of eTinium, a telecom consulting and market research firm specializing in the telecommunications market.
		In August of 2001, she was invited to the first Telecommunications Conference to be held in Iran in the past twenty-three years and subsequently to the Ministry of Telecommunications to discuss the topic of deregulation in the Asian telecom market.
		Ameri also writes a bi-monthly analysis column for Telephony magazine, and is a member of the Council of Communications Advisors, an association of leading telecommunications engineers, information scientists, and IT professionals whose purpose is to promote business innovation and continuing education by facilitating the flow of relevant scientific and technical knowledge to institutional investors.
	www.siliconiran.com /about_us/the_team/editorial_board/GoliAmeri.shtml (282 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Goli Ameri, Mahmoud Ghaffari
		Some recent articles on Iranian.com and elsewhere prompted me to scribe this peace and depict a different perspective(s) of who Goli Ameri is and why we, Iranians in Diaspora, should support her.
		I have known Goli Ameri, when she was to me Golrokh Yazdi, or as I call her "Amghezee".
		If in fact, Ameri has one percent of his genes in her, we should be proud to send her to the House of Representatives.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2004/May/Ameri (674 words)

	IranDokht News - Goli Ameri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Goli Ameri Appointed by President Bush as one of Three Public Delegates to the UN Human Rights Commission
		Goli Ameri has been appointed by President George W. Bush as one of three public delegates to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
		Goli Ameri is the first Iranian-American to receive a Presidential appointment to this post.
	www.irandokht.com /news/readnews.php?newsID=10424 (333 words)

	Goli Ameri Nominated By President Bush as U.S. Representative to 60th Session of the UN General Assembly
		Ameri is serving as a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Mission to the UN.
		Ameri spent two days in the latter part of November discussing UN Reform with a variety of groups in Manila, the Philippines.
		Ameri has been responsible for the Internet Governance portfolio at the USUN prior to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which was held in Tunisia November 16-18, 2005.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/dec/1137.html (462 words)

	© the eyeranian: Mud Flying Continues? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ameri, at age 17, voluntarily entered the US with a student visa, SHE is the one who has put out this varying info -- not anyone who has written on this blog.
		Ameri said that at the time of the revolution her parents "were abroad at a medical convention and couldn't go back.
		Even 8 years ago Goli Ameri was confused, and confusing, as to when she came to the U.S. In 1996 Stanford University alumni magazine published an article by Ameri about her first trip to Iran after coming to the US more than 20 years earlier.
	www.eyeranian.net /2004/08/02,961.shtml (9809 words)

	Sabato's Crystal Ball - 2004 House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		However, his current opponent, Goli Ameri, is well financed and is receiving support form the national party--including a late-summer visit from House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
		Ameri is a native of Iran and is the founder and president a consulting and market research firm specializing in the telecommunications industry.
		And while Ameri had previously refused to comment on the incident, she devoted the majority of her opening statement in their Oct. 16 debate to blasting Wu for the incident and claiming it made him unfit for office.
	www.centerforpolitics.org /crystalball/2004/house?state=OR (420 words)

	U.S. Newswire : Release : Political Action Arm of Nation's Largest Taxpayer Group Endorses Goli Ameri for Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"Goli Ameri's commitment to grow the economy by eliminating the harmful taxes that choke struggling businesses stands in refreshing contrast to David Wu's stale tax-and-spend approach," said NTUCF President John Berthoud.
		"Goli Ameri's support for eliminating harmful taxes such as the Alternative Minimum Tax, and the death tax, along with reducing dividend and capital gains burdens on middle-class investors, prove that she will be a catalyst for tax relief in Washington."
		Berthoud noted that Ameri was instrumental in helping to qualify a successful voter referendum (Ballot Measure 30) that repealed a $1.1 billion tax increase passed by Oregon's legislature.
	releases.usnewswire.com /printing.asp?id=37950 (425 words)

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