Susan Ellis Wild is an American attorney and politician from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district. Wild is the first woman to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress. Wild was appointed the first female solicitor of Allentown, Pennsylvania in January 2015.
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Susan Ellis Wild is an American attorney and politician from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district. Wild is the first woman to represent the Lehigh Valley in Congress. Wild has been critical of Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro, for holding views characterized as ‘far-right’,’misogynistic’, ‘homophobic’ and ‘anti-immigrant’ In March 2019, Wild and 29 other Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, warning of the threat to the LGBTQ+ community and other minority communities, women, labor activists, and political dissidents in Brazil. On December 10, 2019, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee advanced two articles of impeachment against Republican President Donald Trump. Wild voted ‘Yes’ on the first article of impeachment, ‘obstruction of Congress’ on December 18, 2019.
The resolution was to terminate President Trump’s declaration of an emergency at the U.S -Mexican border, which allowed him to bypass Congress and bypass funds to build a border wall. Wild was appointed the first female solicitor of Allentown, Pennsylvania in January 2015. She served as Solicitor of Allengown starting on January 7, 2015, when she was confirmed by the Allengtown City Council. Wild resigned from office to pursue her candidacy for the United US House of Representative to succeed retiring Representative Charlie Dent in 2018. She won the Democratic Party primary election and faced Republican Lehigh County commissioner Marty Nothstein in the November 6 general election. On November 15, 2018, it was announced that Wild had won the 15th district’s special election, receiving 130,353 votes to Nothsstein’s 129,593 votes.
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