Troy Miller (West Virginia)
Troy Miller (Democratic Party) ran for election to the West Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 98. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
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Biography
Troy Miller earned a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in 2013.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: West Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2024
General election
General election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 98
Incumbent Joe Funkhouser defeated Troy Miller in the general election for West Virginia House of Delegates District 98 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Joe Funkhouser (R)  | 66.0 | 5,136 |
 | Troy Miller (D) | 34.0 | 2,647 | |
| Total votes: 7,783 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 98
Troy Miller advanced from the Democratic primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 98 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Troy Miller | 100.0 | 528 |
| Total votes: 528 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 98
Incumbent Joe Funkhouser defeated Barbara Fuller in the Republican primary for West Virginia House of Delegates District 98 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Joe Funkhouser | 59.4 | 923 |
| Barbara Fuller | 40.6 | 631 | ||
| Total votes: 1,554 | |||
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Endorsements
Miller received the following endorsements.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Additionally, Miller worked for years as an organizer for Social Security Works, a Washington, D.C-based nonprofit committed to lowering prescription drug prices. In this role, he also worked to expand and improve Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
He is a graduate from The Linsly School in Wheeling, WV and earned his Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (BSFS) from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Currently, Miller is working to earn his Master of Arts in Appalachian studies from Shepherd University.
Miller wrote about the campaign in February 2024: "For my entire lifetime, I’ve heard this refrain from politicians: to create prosperity and jobs, attract business and to grow an economy, we must gut our government, repeal hard-fought worker protections, and cut corporate taxes and taxes on the ultra-rich who sit in the corporate boardrooms. [...] This campaign says that it’s time to say ENOUGH! It’s again time to invest in our communities and our public infrastructure. That it’s again time to say that our government can be what we want it to be and it can do what we want it to do."
- This campaign is grounded in the vision of a "21st century Economic Bill of Rights," that every West Virginian and American has the right to:
A job that pays a living wage;
A voice in the workplace through a union and collective bargaining;
Comprehensive quality health care;
A complete cost-free public education and access to broadband internet;
Decent, safe, affordable housing;
A clean environment and a healthy planet;
Meaningful resources at birth and a secure retirement;
Sound banking and financial services;
An equitable and economically fair justice system;
To vote and otherwise participate in public life.
As a legislator, Miller would work to promote legislation that secures these rights in West Virginia.
- WE CAN'T CUT our way to prosperity. The truth is that businesses generally want to do business where they don’t have to pay for the entire cost of doing business. That means they want to do business in places with good roads, good water and sewage infrastructure, and where the schools are robust and young workforces are well educated. Those are all things that communities want AND that attract businesses, which fosters a growing economy. Good roads, good infrastructure, and good educational opportunities for children are also all things that attract and retain young workers and families. These things attract tourists. These things help local farms. These things help lower the costs for people starting their own local businesses.
- Abortion bans are an assault on civil rights, and they are also an assault on economic rights and economic freedom, with an all too predictable outcome that the generational wealth gap will widen along with income inequality and increasingly unequal health, educational, and economic outcomes. This campaign is about people standing up and reclaiming our state from the oligarchs who have run our state politics far too long. That means rejecting laws that rip away civil and economic freedoms in the way that abortion bans do. That means building a robust public infrastructure of child-care, elder-care, worker protections, a robust public school system, and well-stewarded public spaces for our residents as well as tourists from near and far.
Labor with an emphasis on creating good-paying jobs, strong worker protections, and safe workplaces;
Healthcare, healthcare justice, and improving health outcomes for all;
Energy Independence and Resilience;
Education and building a robust public education system K-12 along with trade schooling and local apprenticeships and higher education;
Opioid Crisis & Community Recovery;
Youth and family retention in District 98 and West Virginia;
Disability Justice;
Senior Justice;
I would like to be remembered as an unwavering public servant by my principles, by my words, and by my actions.
One of the major issues with our politics today is the undue influence of dark money as allowed by the 2010 Citizens United ruling.
With our current regime of legal bribery via donations and lobbying, one problem is that citizens are robbed of knowing who is paying for a politician to say a certain thing or vote a certain way.
But the bigger problem is that it cuts at the very root of our government. In a republic or a democracy, one citizen is supposed to have one vote, and the most votes are supposed to determine political outcomes. In our current system, as demonstrated by a 2014 study (Gilens and Page), when moneyed interests want a piece of legislation passed, they normally get it. When the people want a piece of legislation passed, the odds are about that of a coin-toss.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on February 11, 2024
