Elise Stefanik’s campaign to put her in Congress is concentrating on women, appointing a campaign team of women and picking up the support of a conservative national women’s organization.

The Elise for Congress Women’s Advisory Team will work with the campaign to build support across the district on her stands on issues of import to women, a news release from her campaign office said.

“This group of women will help ensure that women’s voices are heard on the important issues facing the district including creating jobs and economic opportunity, promoting common sense healthcare reform, protecting our Constitutional liberties, fighting for our military veterans, retirees and families, and advocating for our farmers,” the news release said.

Her St. Lawrence County team leader is Nancy Foster.

Meanwhile She-PAC of Arlington, Va. in the Washington suburbs, says it is supporting her in her run for Congress, among other women candidates.

She-PAC will give Stefanik money for her campaign and will act on her behalf outside of her campaign, a statement from Stefanik’s office says.

“She-PAC was created to get more of these women into office. Not only will we make contributions directly to their campaigns, we will take to the front lines with the resources necessary to counter the smear merchants of the left,” with messages of their own, the political funder’s web site says.

“She-PAC is a political action committee with a two-fold purpose: (1.) To make contributions directly to the campaigns of principled conservative women running for federal office; and, (2.) To make expenditures on behalf of principled conservative women running for federal and statewide office,” the site says.

In a release from Stefanik’s campaign office, She-PAC is quoted as saying, “Elise Stefanik is running for U.S. Congress for New York’s 21st District. We have known and worked with Elise for some time now and she has always been a champion of conservative women. Her family background in small business will be crucial in promoting fiscal responsibility in Congress and her past service in Washington is an advantage - she knows the fierceness the fight will require.”

Prior to her returning last year to her family’s seasonal home in Willsboro to run for Congress, Stefanik spent several years working in Washington as a political aide in the George W. Bush administration and in the vice-presidential campaign of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan in the 2012 campaign.

Her main opposition thus far is fellow Republican Matt Doheny of Watertown, a rival in the June 24 primary election rival.

The Democrats have put forward documentary filmmaker Aaron Woolf of Elizabethtown, who also claims standing in the 21st Congressional District through a family seasonal home.