Marcia Hovey-Wright

	Marcia Hovey-Wright
	Michigan House of Representatives District 92
	Incumbent
	In office
	January 1. 2011-Present
	Term ends
	January 1, 2015
Years in position	2
Party	Democratic
	Compensation
Base salary	$71,685/year
Per diem	$10,800 yearly expense allowance
	Elections and appointments
Last election	November 6, 2012
First elected	November 2, 2010
Next election	November 4, 2014
Term limits	3 terms
	Education
Bachelor's	Pennsylvania State University, 1967
Master's	University of Michigan, 1973
	Personal
Profession	Co-Owner, Behavioral Health Associates
Websites
	Office website
	Campaign website

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Hovey-Wright is the owner of Marcia Hovey-Wright Counseling Service. She started the business in 1989, and serves as a social worker. She previously worked as a social worker for Holton Public Schools (1994-1996) and Orchard View School (1996-2004). She was also the Executive Director of Muskegon Area Planned Parenthood from 1980-1985.

Hovey-Wright graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1967 with a Bachelor's degree in Social Work. She then earned two Master's Degrees, from the University of Michigan (Social Work) in 1973 and from the Aquinas College (Management) in 1989.

Issues

Campaign themes

Hovey-Wright's website highlights the following campaign themes:^[1]

Create more jobs

Excerpt:"I will work aggressively with the State and local economic programs to attract new job providers. We have wonderful, positive communities. We need to make sure that people know about us, visit us, and choose to live and work with us."

Improve racial justice and civil rights

Excerpt:"We need to make the criminal justice system more just, improve outcomes in our schools and more effectively address the particular health issues of minorities."

Strengthen women’s rights and protect reproductive freedom

Excerpt:"The attacks on women,the last 2 years, particularly in reproductive health care issues has been relentless. We have lost many gains won 30 years ago. Michigan must turn this trend around – let Michigan be a leader in electing more progressive women to public office."

Make public education the backbone of our democracy

Excerpt:"We need to support our teachers, protect their retirement, find new ways to support education, and help failing schools, rather than punish them."

Provide affordable health care and drug coverage for all our citizens

Excerpt:"Health care should be a right, not a priviledge. The high cost of healthcare in the U.S. contributes significantly to the cost of our products on the global market."

Committee assignments

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Hovey-Wright served on the following committees:

Michigan Committee Assignments, 2012
• Agriculture
• Families, Children, and Seniors, Vice-chair

2011-2012

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Hovey-Wright served on these committees:

Michigan Committee Assignments, 2011
• Agriculture
• Health Policy
• Insurance

Elections

2012

See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2012

Hovey-Wright won re-election in the 2012 election for Michigan House of Representatives District 92. She defeated Willie Walton in the August 7 Democratic primary and defeated Travis Shepherd (R) in the general election which took place on November 6, 2012.^[2]

Michigan House of Representatives, District 92, General Election, 2012
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Marcia Hovey-Wright Incumbent	73.1%	24,211
	Republican	Travis Shepherd	26.9%	8,908
Total Votes				33,119

Michigan House of Representatives, District 92 Democratic Primary, 2012
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Marcia Hovey-Wright Incumbent	83.4%	4,903
Willie Walton	16.6%	976
Total Votes		5,879

2010

See also: Michigan House of Representatives elections, 2010

Hovey-Wright won election to the District 92 Seat in 2010. She defeated Steven Markel, Scott McNeill, Sean Mullally, Charles Nash, Scott Nesbit, David Takitaki, Willie Walton and Steve Warmington in the August 3 Democratic primary. He defeated John McNally (R) in the general election on November 2, 2010.

Michigan House of Representatives, District 92 General election (2010)
Candidates		Votes
Marcia Hovey-Wright (D)		13,102
John McNally (R)		7,486

Campaign donors

2012

Campaign donor information is not yet available for this year.

2010

In 2010, Hovey-Wright raised $66,613 in contributions. ^[3]

Her four largest contributors were:

Donor	Amount
Hovey-Wright Marcia For State Representative	$6,804
Wright, Wm	$2,500
Progressive Womens Alliance Of West Michigan	$2,100
Michigan Education Association	$2,000

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