| 2010 Status: Term-limited
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Biography:
Michael Prusi, a resident of
Ishpeming Township, is Senator for the 38th District, which includes
Gogebic, Iron, Ontonagon, Delta, Dickinson, Keweenaw, Houghton, Baraga,
Marquette, Alger, Luce, Schoolcraft, and Menominee counties. He currently serves as the Democratic Vice Chair for the Senate
Appropriations Committee. The Senator also serves as Democratic Vice
Chair on the Labor & Economic Growth and Joint Capital Outlay
subcommittees. In addition he serves on the Higher Education and
Corrections and Judiciary subcommittees. Before being elected to the
Senate, he served three terms in the Michigan House of Representatives.
Prior to his legislative career, Mike worked for over twenty years as
an iron ore miner for the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company at various
Marquette County mining operations, including five years as an
underground miner. He was elected to three terms as President of Local
Union 4950 of the United Steelworkers of America. He was a member of
the International Union’s Wage Policy Committee and Upper Peninsula
Delegate for the union’s Committee on Political Education. Mike also
served on the Executive Board of the Marquette County Labor Council.
Mike’s involvement in many local community projects included service as
the United Way Fund Drive Co-Chair and as a Trustee on the Bell
Memorial Hospital Board in Ishpeming.
Mike has attended Northern Michigan University and Lansing Community
College. He is married to Sandi and is the proud father of two
daughters.(Democratic
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