Bruce OConnell is a small-government, common sense, constitutional conservative. As the owner of the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway, he has spent over 40 years successfully dealing with government bureaucracy and inefficiency, successfully challenging the 2013 government shutdown, implementing continual business improvements, building strong teams, and contributing to his community. He understands budgets and balance sheets. 

 

Today, he sees it as his duty, honor, and privilege to give back to the community that has given him so much. Bruce is running for Congress to fight for traditional American values on behalf of all Western North Carolina.

 

As your congressman, Bruce will make a contract with the people of District 11. And as he likes to say, “A contract is a contract.”

 

Bruce has never been a politician and does not want to make a career of it. He commits to a 6-year term limit. 

 

He pledges to donate 100% of his congressional salary to local nonprofit organizations.