Mike Bishop (politician)

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Mike Bishop

Michael Dean "Mike" Bishop (born March 18, 1967 in Almont , Lapeer County , Michigan ) is an American Republican Party politician . From 2015 to 2019, he represented the southeastern state of Michigan in the United States House of Representatives .

Family, education and work

Mike Bishop is the son of a Michigan State Senator, Donald Bishop, who represented a similar area in the State Legislature as his son later did. This attended Rochester Adams High School and studied until 1989 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , which he left with a bachelor's degree in history. The subsequent law degree at the Detroit College of Law Bishop graduated in 1992 with a Juris Doctor . In the same year he studied international business law at Cambridge University .

Since his admission in 1993, Bishop worked as a lawyer. He also worked as a stockbroker; In 1994 he received a Real Estate Agent Certificate from the Curry Management Institute in Rochester Hills . In 1995 he ran unsuccessfully for the University of Michigan Board of Regents . From 2011 he was a lecturer at the Law School of Western Michigan University , from 2013 Principal Legal Advisor to the International Bancard Corporation.

He has three children with his wife Christina and lives in Rochester Hills.

Political career

From 1999 to 2002 Bishop was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives ; between 2003 and 2010 he sat in the State Senate and was there from 2007 chairman of the Republicans. He became known as an advocate for business and the conservative wing of his party. With the then governor Jennifer Granholm of the Democrats, Bishop acted in disputes, but was also prepared to compromise. In 2010, he was unable to stand again for the state senate due to limited mandate time and unsuccessfully applied for his party's nomination as Attorney General of his state. He then worked for the major international law firm Clark Hill . Two years later, his candidacy for the office of district attorney in Oakland County was unsuccessful and then worked for International Blancard .

In the 2014 election , Bishop was elected to the US House of Representatives in Michigan's eighth congressional electoral district in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Mike J. Rogers , who was no longer running, on January 3 & January 2015 . He defeated the Democrat Eric Schertzing with 55 to 42 percent of the vote. The constituency in southeast Michigan includes the capital of the state of Lansing . Bishop was on the Committee on Ways and Means , which is responsible for tax law. He sees his approval for the tax reform of the Republicans in 2017 and the initiation of an aid fund for victims of a wave of meningitis infection in 2012 as a success, as well as concrete support for citizens of his constituency, especially veterans, seniors and companies. He was present in the 2017 Congressional baseball attack but was not injured.

In the 2018 election , Bishop was considered endangered. Former intelligence worker Elissa Slotkin stood up against him for the Democrats . At the end of September 2018, the Republican election campaign organization in the House of Representatives decided to cancel the election commercials booked for Bishop. Bishop had won the last election in 2016 by 17 percentage points, and in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, Republicans Mitt Romney and Donald Trump had won the district. Slotkin took in more campaign donations than Bishop and showed herself to be a moderate centrist during the election campaign. He lost to Slotkin by 47 to 51 percent and left Congress on January 3, 2019.

Positions

Bishop's political work is based on his experience in private finance and advocates job creation through tax cuts and dismantling of regulations. Together with some Democrats in Michigan, he fought off President Trump's proposed cuts in the environmental fund for the Great Lakes and criticized Trump's customs policy, which led to trade wars. He advocates conservative concerns such as a strict ban on abortion ( pro-life ) and a restrictive immigration policy . On his Facebook page, Bishop quotes the Three Percenters , a controversial group that militantly advocates the right to carry arms with recourse to the American Revolution .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Todd Spangler: Bishop v. Slotkin: Why this may be a great congressional race to watch. In: Detroit Free Press , September 28, 2018.
  2. ^ Todd Spangler: Bishop v. Slotkin: Why this may be a great congressional race to watch. In: Detroit Free Press , September 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ Mike Bishop's Biography. In: Vote Smart.
  4. ^ Todd Spangler: Bishop v. Slotkin: Why this may be a great congressional race to watch. In: Detroit Free Press , September 28, 2018.
  5. ^ Todd Spangler: Bishop v. Slotkin: Why this may be a great congressional race to watch. In: Detroit Free Press , September 28, 2018.
  6. ↑ Alex Isenstadt: House GOP super PAC cuts off support for Bishop, Coffman. In: Politico , September 28, 2018.
  7. ^ Todd Spangler: Bishop v. Slotkin: Why this may be a great congressional race to watch. In: Detroit Free Press , September 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ Michigan 8th District - Bishop vs. Slotkin. In: RealClearPolitics.
  9. ^ Todd Spangler: Bishop v. Slotkin: Why this may be a great congressional race to watch. In: Detroit Free Press , September 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Bishop, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bishop, Michael Dean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Republican Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Almont , Michigan