Mark Miller

Mark Miller

Template:TOCnestleft Mark Miller is a State Senator and Senate Minority leader from Wisconsin.

Miller is serving his first term in the Wisconsin Senate. He serves the 16th Senate District which includes parts of Dane County, Columbia County and the Village and Town of Merrimac in Sauk County. He was elected on November 2, 2004 and was sworn in on January 3, 2005.

Senator Miller is the Co-Chair of the Joint Committee on Finance and the Chair of the Senate Committee on the Environment and Natural Resources. He also serves on the Joint Audit Committee, the Joint Legislative Council Committee, the Joint Committee on Employment Relations, the Joint Committee on Policy Information and Technology and the Claims Board.

He also served on the Governor’s Task Force to Improve Access to Oral Health (2005), the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board, the Child Welfare Program Enhancement Plan Implementation Team, and the Board of Health for Madison and Dane County.

Education

Mark Miller graduated from Middleton High School, received his Bachelor of Science from UW-Madison in 1973. He also attended the Bowhay Institute for Legislative Leadership Development in 1999 and the Fleming Fellows Leadership Institute in 2002.

Career

Before being elected to the State Senate, Senator Miller served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from January of 1999 to January of 2005. Senator Miller also served on the Dane County Board of Supervisors and was a military pilot in the Air National Guard, retiring in 1995 at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Positions

Senator Miller is a leading advocate in health care reform and has led the fight to pass a statewide health care plan in Wisconsin. He is committed to making health care both affordable and accessible. He is the author of legislation requiring health care coverage be provided for Wisconsin residents and children. He has continued to work to find effective and reasonably priced solutions to prescription drug costs and assure good quality health care for all Wisconsin citizens.

Senator Miller is committed to sound environmental policy and conservation. Miller strongly believes it is imperative to prevent contaminated drinking water, reduce runoff pollution into Wisconsin’s lakes, rivers and streams and make Wisconsin more energy self-sufficient. He is the author of legislation that will "reduce our dependence on imported energy, create jobs and encourage a cleaner environment".

DSA support 2004

In Democratic Socialists of America's Democratic Left Winter 2004/2005, Theresa Alt wrote;

We reported on the candidates that DSAers were supporting in the last issue of Democratic Left. How did they do?

In Wisconsin, progressive incumbents Feingold, Baldwin and Obey won. In a race for an open state senate seat, the favored Mark Miller won handily. However, progressive insurgent Bryan Kennedy lost badly..

Supported Progressive Health Care Reform

In late 2009, Mark Miller was one of more than 1,000 state legislators to sign a letter entitled "State Legislators for Progressive Health Care Reform". The letter was a project of the Progressive States Network and was developed in consultation with national health care reform advocates, including the AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Community Catalyst, Families USA, Herndon Alliance, National Women's Law Center, Northeast Action, SEIU, and Universal Health Care Action Network. The letter reads in part,

"Failure to pass national comprehensive health reform now will further jeopardize state and local budgets, undermining public services like education, public safety, and transportation infrastructure... We, the undersigned, call on President Obama and the Congress to enact bold and comprehensive health care reform this year – based on these principles and a strong federal-state collaboration – and pledge our support as state legislators and allies in pursuit of guaranteed, high quality, affordable health care for all."

"Fast one"

Before protesters stormed the capitol, the mayor of the city of Madison tried to pull a fast one. The governor's budget repair bill was on the fast track, and Madison Mayor Dave Ciesliewicz was racing against the clock to pass new union contracts first.

E-mails obtained by the FOX6 Investigators show that the mayor enlisted the help of State Senator Mark Miller. They both tried to convince the Secretary of State to hold up the bill by taking the maximum 10 days allowed by law before publishing the bill.

They were trying to buy some time so they could ratify new contracts to protect workers from benefit cuts.

Endorsements

The following organizations endorse Mark Miller in 2010:

• AFL-CIO
• Madison Area Firefighters
• Madison Teachers Inc.
• NARAL
• Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin
• Progressive Majority
• Service Employees International Union
• SEPAC
• Sierra Club
• South Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
• UAW Janesville-Madison Area CAP/PAC Council
• WEAC

Over 90 current and former public officials endorse Mark Miller For State Senate.

• Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin
• Governor Jim Doyle

Assembly

• Terese Berceau, State Representative, 76th AD
• Sondy Pope-Roberts, State Representative, 79th AD

Dane County

• Kathleen Falk, Dane County Executive
• Brian Butler, Former Dane County Supervisor
• Steve Braunginn, Former Dane County Supervisor
• Richard Brown, Dane County Supervisor
• Leslie "Buzz" Davis, Former Dane County Supervisor
• Elaine DeSmidt, Dane County Supervisor
• Chuck Erickson, Dane County Supervisor
• Robert Fyrst, Dane County Supervisor
• William Graf, Dane County Supervisor
• Beth Gross, Dane County Supervisor
• Beverly Hills, Former Dane County Supervisor
• Jane Licht, Dane County Register of Deeds
• Scott McDonell, Dane County Supervisor
• Andrew Olsen, Dane County Supervisor
• Mark Opitz, Dane County Supervisor
• Rich Pertzborn, Dane County Supervisor
• Rick Phelps, Former Dane County Executive
• Kyle Richmond, Dane County Supervisor
• Paul Rusk, Dane County Supervisor
• Tom Stoebig, Former Dane County Supervisor
• Mary Louise Symon, Former Dane County Chair
• Echnaton Vedder, Dane County Supervisor
• Richard Wagner, Former Dane County Chair
• Dorothy Wheeler, Dane County Supervisor
• Judy Wilcox, Former Dane County Supervisor
• David Worzala, Dane County Supervisor

Columbia County

• Neil Ford, Columbia County Supervisor
• Sarah Lloyd, Columbia County Supervisor
• Dan See, Columbia County Supervisor

Cottage Grove

• Linda Elsberry, Former Cottage Grove Town Supervisor
• Kris Hampton, Cottage Grove Town Chairperson
• Eugene Skaar, Former Cottage Grove Town Chair
• Suzanne Zinkel, Cottage Grove Village Trustee
• Nancy Allen, Monona Grove School Bd. Member
• Kathy Bultman, Monona Grove School Bd. Member
• Kristi Williams, Former Monona Grove School Bd. Member

DeForest

Maureen McCarville, Former Deforest Village Trustee

Lodi

• Paul Fisk, Mayor of Lodi
• Peggy Ford, Former Lodi Town Trustee

Madison

Dave Cieslewicz, Mayor of Madison Brian Benford, Madison City Alder Steve Holtzman, Madison City Alder Brenda Konkel, Madison City Alder Gregory Markle, Madison City Alder Judy Olson, Madison City Alder Santiago Rosas, Madison City Alder Matt Sloan, Madison City Alder Paul Van Rooy, Madison City Alder Robbie Webber, Madison City Alder Carol Carstensen, Madison School Bd. Member Joann Elder, Former Madison School Bd. Member Bill Keys, Madison School Bd. Member Juan Jose Lopez, Madison School Bd. Member Shwaw Vang, Madison School Bd. Member

• Johnny Winston, Jr., Madison School Bd. Member

McFarland

Erik Thorensen, McFarland Village President (more)

Ken Brittingham, Retired McFarland School Dist. Super.

Cathy Kirby, Former McFarland Village President

Patrick Miles, McFarland Village Trustee

Connie Hutchinson, McFarland School Board Member

Jim Moeser, McFarland School Bd. Member

Monona

Robb Kahl, Mayor of Monona (more)

Dean Bowles, Former Mayor of Monona

Bill Graf, Dane County Supervisor

Peter McKeever, Monona City Alder

Michael Meulemans, Monona City Alder

Kathy Thomas, Monona City Alder

Douglas Wood, Monona City Alder

Jon Traver, Former Monona City Alder

Bill Bland, Former Monona Grove School Bd. Member

Nancy Gagnon, Former Monona Grove School Bd. Member

John Kitslaar, Monona Grove School Bd. Member

Phillip McDade, Monona Grove School Bd. Member

Bill Thomas, Former Monona Grove School Bd. Member

John Weinberger, Monona Grove School Bd. Member

Oregon

Darrell Klimke, Oregon Village Trustee

Steve Staton, Oregon Village Trustee

Charles Uphoff, Former Oregon School Board Membero

Stoughton

Robert Barnett Jr., Former Mayor of Stoughton (more)

Liniel Cooper, Former Mayor of Stoughton (more)

Leslie "Buzz" & Kay Davis, Former Dane County Supervisor

Denise Duranczyk, Stoughton City Alder

Kathleen Kelly, Stoughton City Alder

Erik Swenson, Former Stoughton City Alder

Donna Vogel, Dane County Supervisor

Nic Dibble, Stoughton School Bd. Member

Ruth Fortney, Stoughton School Bd. Member

Other Local Officials

Robert Lee, Dane Town Chair

Rosalind Gausman, Dunn Town Clerk

Meagan Yost, Lowville Town Chair

James Van Deurzen, Mazomanie Town Supervisor

Ada Deer, Former Menomini Restoration Committee Chair

Nick Ganser, Roxbury Town Supervisor

Carleton Hamre, Vienna Town Chairperson

References

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