Michael Harold Coffman was born on March 19,1955 and is an American politician, businessman, and veteran of the US Army and US Marine Corps serving as Mayor of Aurora, Colorado since 2019.
51 Facts About Mike Coffman
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The son of a soldier, Mike Coffman was born in Missouri and moved to Aurora when he was 9 years old.
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Mike Coffman enlisted in the army himself at age 17, serving two years before leaving for the reserves to attend college.
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Mike Coffman was first elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 1988, being reelected until his appointment to the State Senate in December 1994.
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Mike Coffman was then elected as Colorado State Treasurer in 1998 and as Colorado Secretary of State in 2006.
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Mike Coffman resigned as Secretary of State when he was elected to the United States Congress, where he served until his defeat for reelection by Jason Crow in 2018.
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Michael Mike Coffman was born on March 19,1955, at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, to Harold and Dorothy Mike Coffman, and is one of five children.
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Mike Coffman's father served in the United States Army at Fort Leonard Wood, and after 1964, at Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora.
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In 1972, Mike Coffman enlisted in the US Army, and was assigned to a mechanized infantry battalion.
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Mike Coffman began his political career serving as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 1989 to 1994.
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Mike Coffman was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon after his first deployment.
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In 2006, Mike Coffman returned to active duty in the Marines where he deployed to Iraq for combat service.
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Mike Coffman resigned from that post in 2005 in order to resume his career in the US Marines, and serve in the War in Iraq, where he helped support the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, which oversaw two national elections, and helped establish interim local governments in the western Euphrates Valley.
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Mike Coffman's office responded that incomplete registrations require voters to either re-register or provide extra identification when they go to vote.
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The secretary of state's office denied wrongdoing, and Mike Coffman said he believes his office was correctly applying the law.
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Mike Coffman announced that he would run for the US House seat being vacated by retiring Republican Tom Tancredo in 2008 in Colorado's 6th congressional district.
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Mike Coffman ran for re-election to the US House in 2014.
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Mike Coffman won the Republican nomination in the primary election on June 24,2014, unopposed.
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Mike Coffman faced Democrat Andrew Romanoff in the general election.
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Mike Coffman ran for re-election in 2016 as the Republican nominee against Democratic State Senator Morgan Carroll.
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Mike Coffman was trailing Crow in most of the polls in fall of 2018.
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The Republican National Congressional Committee confirmed on October 19,2018, that it had pulled the remaining $1 million in television ad spending in an apparent assessment that Mike Coffman was likely to lose.
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Mike Coffman was defeated for re-election to Congress to by Democrat Jason Crow in 2018.
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In early 2014, Mike Coffman announced that he no longer supported personhood laws.
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Mike Coffman supported the 2012 renewal of the Violence Against Women Act.
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In 2016, Mike Coffman initially supported but ultimately opposed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act which would provide protections and exemptions to "any religious corporation, religious association, religious educational institution, or religious society" that receives a federal defense contract.
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Mike Coffman had a "B+" rating from marijuana legalization group National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws regarding his voting record on cannabis-related matters.
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Mike Coffman supports allowing veterans access to medical marijuana, if legal in their state, per their Veterans Health Administration doctor's recommendation.
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Mike Coffman supports allowing cannabis businesses access to banking, medical marijuana research, and industrial hemp farming.
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In January 2018, Mike Coffman joined other Colorado congressman in criticizing a memo by Attorney General Jeff Sessions announcing his intention to rescind the Obama-era practice of allowing states to make marijuana use legal.
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Mike Coffman suggested that the memo violated the constitution's commerce clause.
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Mike Coffman did not endorse Donald Trump, the Republican Party's nominee for US president in 2016.
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Mike Coffman released a version of the commercial which featured him speaking Spanish.
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Mike Coffman called for the firing of White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn over interactions Flynn had with Russian officials.
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In May 2012, Mike Coffman stated that he did not know where President Barack Obama was born.
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Mike Coffman voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which was a stimulus package intended to save and create jobs, and provide temporary relief programs as a response to the Great Recession.
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Mike Coffman cited a nonexistent Congressional Budget Office study to justify his vote against the stimulus package.
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Mike Coffman later claimed that "the Congressional Budget Office estimates have been changed or suppressed".
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Mike Coffman voted in support of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
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Mike Coffman supported a bill that would reverse an Obama administration rule confiscating guns from people unable to manage their Social Security benefits.
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Mike Coffman is in favor of a "full repeal" of the Affordable Care Act.
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In May 2017, Mike Coffman voted against the American Health Care Act of 2017, a Republican bill which would have partially repealed the ACA.
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Mike Coffman introduced the Veterans Paralympic Act of 2013, which funds disabled veterans who want to compete in the Paralympic Games.
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Mike Coffman introduced the Gulf War Health Research Reform Act of 2014, a bill that would alter the relationship between the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Mike Coffman was the first congressman to call for Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki to resign after misconduct at multiple VA facilities was revealed.
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In 2016, Mike Coffman co-sponsored a bill to abolish the Selective Service System.
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In March 2018, Mike Coffman called on President Trump to fire VA Secretary David Shulkin over his travel expenses and other issues.
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In July 2018, Mike Coffman supported a congressional bill to reinstate net neutrality rules.
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In 2017, Mike Coffman petitioned the House to pass a law protecting DREAMers.
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In September 2016, Mike Coffman co-sponsored the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2015, which would restore some protections in the 1965 Voting Rights Act that had been removed by the United States Supreme Court.
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Mike Coffman was married to former Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Mike Coffman.