56 Facts About Candice Miller

Candice Sue Miller is an American politician serving as the Public Works Commissioner of Macomb County, Michigan since 2017.

Candice Miller was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.

Candice Miller played a major role in advancing legislation to end the practice of using millions of dollars in taxpayer funding to host political party conventions and, instead, redirected that funding for pediatric research.

Candice Miller oversaw the Committee's review of the report generated by the Bauer-Ginsberg Commission, which focused on using local governance over elections and made recommendations to help locals election administrators improve upon their own voting processes.

Representative Candice Miller has served on the House Committee on Homeland Security since March 2008.

Candice Miller served as vice chair of the full House Committee on Homeland Security from January 2011 until December 2016 and served as chairman of the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security from 2011 until February 2016.

Candice Miller is a member of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence.

Candice Miller advocated for ways to strengthen the Department of Homeland Security's ability to identify and stop terrorists with western passports, authoring legislation in that would allow DHS to suspend a country's participation in the US Visa Waiver Program if it fails to provide the US with pertinent traveler information related to terror threats.

Representative Candice Miller crafted legislation to increase oversight of the maritime security mission of DHS, as well as to strengthen domestic maritime security connected to US trade with its trusted partners.

Candice Miller focused her efforts on building a stronger presence of homeland security assets at Selfridge, enhancing the security of airways, roadways, railways, and waterways, and securing domestic food and water supplies by enhancing Northern Border security.

In 2007, Representative Candice Miller was appointed to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Candice Miller is a member of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, as well as the Subcommittee on Aviation.

Representative Candice Miller is the only member from Michigan serving on this committee.

In 2014, Representative Candice Miller was appointed to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's Public-Private Partnership Special Panel.

Representative Candice Miller told the Investigative Subcommittee that the first time she spoke to Representative Smith about his vote on the Medicare legislation was on the House floor while the vote was open, after Representative Smith had cast his vote.

Candice Miller estimated that she spoke with him during the first hour of the time that the vote was held open.

Representative Candice Miller estimated that the exchange lasted for about ten seconds.

Candice Miller told the Investigative Subcommittee that she did not at any point ask Representative Smith to change his vote on the Medicare legislation.

Representative Smith told the Investigative Subcommittee that Representative Candice Miller specifically threatened to work against his son if he did not change his vote.

Candice Miller is a signatory of Grover Norquist's Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which commits her to oppose tax increases.

Candice Miller sat on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and has praised President Obama for his stance on off-shore oil exploration.

Candice Miller supports selling oil and gas leases to help fund the research and development of alternative energy projects.

In December 2010, Candice Miller complained about the leak of US diplomatic cables, and called WikiLeaks a terrorist organisation.

Candice Miller opposed the bill and argued that the state of Michigan should opt out of the National Flood Insurance Program entirely and urged the governor to do so.

Candice Miller suggested insurance premiums of being decided by politics rather than actuarial costs.

Candice Miller was elected Harrison Township Supervisor in 1980, becoming the first woman and the youngest person ever to be elected to the position.

Candace Candice Miller was first elected to the Harrison Township board of commissioners.

Candice Miller was the first woman ever elected to the positions of Macomb County Treasurer and Secretary of State.

Candice Miller was the first Republican to serve as secretary of state in Michigan in 40 years since Owen Cleary left office in 1955.

Candice Miller carried every county in Michigan and beat both Democrat Mary Parks and the Reform Party's Perry Spencer by 1 million votes, the largest margin of victory for a candidate running statewide in Michigan.

Candice Miller was rumored to be considering running for the Republican nomination for governor, to succeed three-term Republican Gov.

Candice Miller won the Republican primary unopposed, and later in the general election in November she handily beat Democrat Carl Marlinga, the Macomb County Prosecutor since 1982.

Candice Miller faced no opposition in the Republican primary, and was acclaimed as the Republican candidate on August 8,2006.

Candice Miller was reelected against Democratic candidate Robert Denison, Libertarian candidate Neil Kiernan Stephenson, and Green candidate Candace Caveny.

Candice Miller spoke on behalf of Senator John McCain and was a vocal supporter of Governor Sarah Palin.

Candice Miller was challenged by Democratic nominee Henry Yanez, a Sterling Heights firefighter and paramedic.

Candice Miller is currently the chairman of the 10th District Democrats and was a delegate to the 2004 and 2008 Democratic National Conventions.

Candice Miller has been president of the American Polish Cultural Center.

In March 2015, Candice Miller announced she would not seek re-election to Congress, and resigned at the end of the 114th Congress.

In March 2016, Candice Miller announced she would seek the Republican nomination for the position of Macomb County Public Works Commissioner, challenging six-term incumbent Democrat Anthony Marrocco.

Candice Miller defeated Marrocco in the general election, taking 55 percent of the vote.

Marrocco is the third 24-year incumbent that Candice Miller has defeated in her political career, after Nowakowski and Austin.

Candice Miller resigned her seat in the House on December 31,2016, in order to take office as Public Works Commissioner the next day.

On January 1,2017, her first day as Public Works Commissioner, Candice Miller held a press conference at the site of a sinkhole in Fraser, Michigan.

Candice Miller's first act upon taking office was placing Dino Bucci, who was a top deputy to Marrocco, on administrative leave, as he became the subject of a federal investigation along with Marrocco.

In May 2017, Candice Miller confirmed that 10 employees from the public works department had been subpoenaed by the FBI to testify before a grand jury in a wide-ranging investigation into public corruption in Macomb County.

Candice Miller said the corruption that occurred under Marrocco was pervasive and widespread and that people used the office's resources for personal use.

Candice Miller announced plans to run for re-election in June 2018 and won the GOP nomination uncontested in August 2020 and faced Democratic nominee, Toni Moceri, a former Macomb County Commissioner in the general election.

Candice Miller won re-election in a landslide, taking more than 61 percent of the vote.

Candice Miller received 1 vote in the second ballot of the October 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election from John James.

Candice Miller has long been courted by the Michigan Republican Party to run for governor, with speculation on her gubernatorial aspirations dating back to 1999.

Brian Calley said Candice Miller was the "dream candidate" for many in the Republican Party.

In January 2021, Candice Miller announced that she would not run for governor.

Candice Miller is a graduate of Lake Shore High School of St Clair Shores, Michigan.

Candice Miller was a fighter pilot, flew combat missions in Vietnam, commanded the Selfridge Air National Guard Base and retired from the Air National Guard as a colonel.

Candice Miller died in January 2019 at the age of 80.