Denise Mentzer
What this job does: Your district's vote in the Michigan House of Representatives. Members write and vote on state laws and the state budget. A term is two years, with a limit of 12 years total in the Legislature.
- Holds this seat now
- Yes
- Office
- State Representative, House District 61 (since 2023)
- Occupation
- State representative
Background
- Earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Baker College through night classes while working full-time. source: housedems.com
- Served 10 years on the Mount Clemens City Commission. source: housedems.com
- Serving a second House term and seeking a third in 2026. source: mlcmi.com
- Serves on the House Oversight Committee and as minority vice chair of its Homeland Security and Foreign Influence Oversight Subcommittee. source: housedems.com
- Vice president of the Mount Clemens Optimist Club and a member of the Mount Clemens Public Library Board of Friends. source: housedems.com
In their own words
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- Affordable and accessible health care, including lower prescription costs source: denisementzer.com
- Education and opportunity: public school funding and affordable trade school and college source: denisementzer.com
- Lowering costs and taxes for the middle class, including ending the tax on retirement income source: denisementzer.com
- Upgrading water infrastructure and making corporate polluters pay source: denisementzer.com
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