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In 2012, Ulrich lost her District 16 seat on the Republican State Central Committee to former U.S. Representative John Cooksey, also of Monroe, by a vote of 620 (40.4 percent) to 913 (59.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/03242012/03242012_37.html|title=Louisiana primary election returns, March 24, 2012|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=November 29, 2012}}</ref>
 
In 2012, Ulrich lost her District 16 seat on the Republican State Central Committee to former U.S. Representative John Cooksey, also of Monroe, by a vote of 620 (40.4 percent) to 913 (59.7 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/03242012/03242012_37.html|title=Louisiana primary election returns, March 24, 2012|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=November 29, 2012}}</ref>
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In the general election held on November 17, 2007, Ulrich was defeated in a bid for the open District 5 seat on the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She polled 49,818 votes (48 percent) to Democrat Keith K. Guice's 54,550 (52 percent). The district includes seventeen parishes in north and central Louisiana. Guice, also of Monroe, carried the endorsement of the teacher organizations. He will hence succeed the 15-year Democratic incumbent James Stafford. Guice led in eleven parishes. Ulrich prevailed in Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Rapides, Richland, and Union parishes[1].  
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In the general election held on November 17, 2007, Ulrich was defeated in a bid for the open District 5 seat on the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. She polled 49,818 votes (48 percent) to Democrat Keith K. Guice's 54,550 (52 percent). The district includes seventeen parishes in north and central Louisiana. Guice, also of Monroe, carried the endorsement of the teacher organizations. He will hence succeed the 15-year Democratic incumbent James Stafford. Guice led in eleven parishes. Ulrich prevailed in Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Rapides, Richland, and Union parishes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11172007/11172007_MultiParish.html|title=Louisiana general election returns, November 17, 2007|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=November 29, 2012}}</ref>
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Ulrich was chairman of the Louisiana [[George W. Bush|Bush]]-[[Dick Cheney|Cheney]] presidential electors in 2004. She serves on the Monroe Historic Preservation Commission. She is a past vice president of the Garden District Neighborhood Alliance and past president of the Monroe Garden Club. In 2005, U.S. Senator [[David Vitter]] nominated her to represent Monroe at the Business and Professional Women’s Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.[2]
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Ulrich was chairman of the Louisiana [[George W. Bush|Bush]]-[[Dick Cheney|Cheney]] presidential electors in 2004. She serves on the Monroe Historic Preservation Commission. She is a past vice president of the Garden District Neighborhood Alliance and past president of the Monroe Garden Club. In 2005, U.S. Senator [[David Vitter]] nominated her to represent Monroe at the Business and Professional Women’s Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.<ref>Vitter for Senate.gov</ref>
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In addition to Ouachita Parish, District 5 includes the north-central parishes of Caldwell, Catahoula, Concordia, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Rapides, Richland, West Carroll, Tensas, and Union. Ulrich received pluralities in nine parishes in the primary: Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Lincoln, Morehouse, Ouachita, Rapides, Richland, and Union. Lee led in Concordia and Tensas. Guice led in the other six parishes, Caldwell, Catahoula, East Carroll, Franklin, Madison, and West Carroll.[4]
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Ulrich indicated that she was particularly interested in addressing discrepancies in the Minimum Foundation Plan, which provides state funding to school districts: "Rural parishes are suffering because of the inequity of [the] sales tax."[5]
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Guice is the outgoing director of youth programs for the Workforce Investment Board and a former school superintendent in Catahoula Parish. He indicated that he is committed to bringing common sense to the board: "We'll look at accountability and temper those rules and regulations with reason." He contends that accountability standards have placed undue stress on teachers and students without improving the educational product.[6]
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Gatlin is a retired superintendent in Catahoula Parish, an educational administrator from Pineville in Rapides Parish, and an adjunct professor at Louisiana College. He endorsed Ulrich in the general election matchup. Lee, who resides in Clayton in northern Concordia Parish, is a retired educator and manager of a federal credit union.[7]
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Shortly after the primary, Ulrich and her husband, Marcus B. "Mark" Ulrich (born 1959), were traumatized when a large pine tree struck their Monroe home. The Ulrich family escaped injuries.[8]
      
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1^http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=111707; http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/NEWS01/711180319
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2^ http://vitter.senate.gov/index.cfm?module=PressRoom/PressItem&ID=6d9d8e84-fade-4049-b410-5d9a9fad8669
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3^ http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibinrqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=102007
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4^http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibinrqstyp=elcms2&rqsdta=102007
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5^ http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071022/NEWS01/710220315/1002
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6^ http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071022/NEWS01/710220315/1002
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7^ http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071004/NEWS01/710040332/1002
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8^http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goCLsx41kOI
      
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