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BALTIMORE (AP) - Thomas V. Mike Miller, who has served as president of the Maryland Senate longer than anyone else in state history, will not run for re-election in 2010. By 2010, Miller, 63, will have served in the legislature for 40 years and Senate president for 24 years, if he is re-elected to the position in January as expected. ``I still have all the enthusiasm,'' Miller said, adding that he has 10 grandchildren under 10 years old and wants ``to do some other things'' after he retires from the General Assembly. ``At that point in my life, I can...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) - A Prince George's County developer is accusing Maryland Senate President Mike Miller of punching him. Leo Bruso of Land and Commercial Inc. filed a complaint against Miller, alleging that Miller hit him as he left a hearing in Upper Marlboro on Wednesday. Bruso says he was standing along the wall of the County Council chamber when Miller grabbed his left arm and swung his right fist toward his left jaw. Bruso says the blow was "painful," causing him to have an "automatic reaction to hit" Miller back in the face. He would not say whether...

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Have you noticed that the Baltimore Gas and Electric rate hike mess is like a tar baby — everyone who touches it gets stuck. In March, the state’s utility regulators, the Public Service Commission, announced that BGE’s rates would increase 72 percent on July 1 when a six-year rate freeze expired. With its announcement the PSC proposed a rate-relief plan that was widely criticized as inadequate. So the Democratic-run state legislature tried playing hero by beating a rate-relief deal out of the utility companies. Unless the utilities coughed up $600 million cash and an additional $600 million loan, the legislature...

Article Published: Thursday, July 29, 2004 Miller confident of Fairbanks' support By TOM MORAN, Staff Writer U.S. Senate candidate Mike Miller of North Pole has declared Fairbanks firmly in his hands for the August Republican primary and said he will spend much of the final month before the contest campaigning in the rest of the state. "Fairbanks is not necessarily a problem for us," Miller said Wednesday. "I definitely expect to win Fairbanks." That's not an opinion shared by Murkowski campaign spokesperson Kristin Pugh, who expects Murkowski to win in every region of the state, including Fairbanks. But Murkowski herself...

Seven conservative groups have endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Mike Miller, his campaign announced Wednesday. Miller, a former state senator from North Pole, bills himself as the conservative alternative to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who he is challenging for the Republican nomination in the Aug. 24 primary election. According to a news release from the Miller campaign, the endorsing groups will provide money and momentum to his campaign. They are: * The Concerned Women PAC, a political action committee supporting candidates "who embrace parental rights and defend the institution of marriage," Miller's campaign said. The PAC's founder is Beverly LaHaye, who also...

If you were disappointed by the results of the Toomey-Specter primary, take hope in that there's still a chance to replace a RINO with a real conservative. Mike Miller is a conservative Republican running against RINO Senator Lisa Murkowski in the Alaskan primary. Miller is pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, and pro-tax cuts. The National Journal has rated Murkowski as the sixth most liberal Republican Senator and the most liberal Republican Senator west of the Mississippi River. Murkowski is also considered vulernable in the general election against Tony Knowles because she was appointed to seat by her father, Frank Murkowski. Even if...

Since his announcement that he'll run in the primary, former Senate President Mike Miller has managed to raise his recognition factor among voters. (Ivan Moore Research poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent. Murkowski was up 74 percent to 22 percent over Miller last month. This month, it's a little closer -- 66 percent to 28 percent. But it's going to take a lot more media of the paid variety from Miller to get him to the point where he can viably challenge Murkowski. For the November general election -- you're not going to believe...

WASHINGTON—Former Alaska state Sen. Mike Miller of North Pole will seek the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat on the ballot in this fall’s primary election. Miller announced the decision today at a 10 a.m. news conference in Anchorage. He also has scheduled a 5 p.m. news conference at North Pole City Hall. Miller portrayed himself as a conservative alternative to incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and to former Gov. Tony Knowles, who is seeking the Democratic nomination. “I really don’t see where Tony and Lisa vary that much on the issues,” Miller said in a brief telephone interview...

Ex-Alaska State Sen. to Oppose Murkowski 2 hours, 38 minutes ago By RACHEL D'ORO, Associated Press Writer ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A former state senator said Wednesday that he will run in the Republican primary against Sen. Lisa Murkowski, whose father appointed her to the post when he was elected governor in 2002. Mike Miller, 52, said the issue of nepotism would doom Murkowski in a race with the expected Democratic candidate, former Gov. Tony Knowles. "Both are liberals, so the only issue would be nepotism — and Lisa Murkowski loses to Tony Knowles," he said. "In a race with Mike...