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Will Miller (Indiana)
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Will Miller (Republican Party) ran for election to the Indiana State Senate to represent District 3. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Miller completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Will Miller was born in Gary, Indiana. He earned a bachelor's degree from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 1994 and a graduate degree from the DeVry University Keller School of Management in 2013. His career experience includes working in education, finance, business, and real estate.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Indiana State Senate elections, 2024
General election
General election for Indiana State Senate District 3
Mark Spencer defeated Will Miller in the general election for Indiana State Senate District 3 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mark Spencer (D) | 73.1 | 33,401 |
 | Will Miller (R)  | 26.9 | 12,279 | |
| Total votes: 45,680 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Indiana State Senate District 3
Mark Spencer defeated incumbent David Vinzant in the Democratic primary for Indiana State Senate District 3 on May 7, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mark Spencer | 65.5 | 6,426 |
 | David Vinzant | 34.5 | 3,390 | |
| Total votes: 9,816 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Indiana State Senate District 3
Will Miller defeated Maya Angelou Brown in the Republican primary for Indiana State Senate District 3 on May 7, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Will Miller | 62.8 | 1,158 |
| Maya Angelou Brown | 37.2 | 685 | ||
| Total votes: 1,843 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Will Miller completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Miller's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a father, an educator, a businessman and an active leader in my community. Within the city of Gary and across the region I have served on boards and in other leadership positions which have increased the quality of people's lives and protected the community's interests, including health, planning, transportation, education, and corrections. In all the positions in which I have served I have strived to ensure that we serve the public interest by doing the right things in the right way. I have pushed for greater transparency, accountability, and fiscal responsibility in local government, and I am ready to bring this fight to the statehouse. The government should serve the people - that is the foundation of our great nation and it is time to reorient our political process to this principle.
- Government should serve the people. State government must be accountable, transparent, and fiscally responsible. The interests of residents in the third district must be served above all other considerations. It is time to end political double-dealing and corruption that leads to the region being left behind, politically and economically.
- Quality public education must be protected against the special interests who have diverted your taxes into private and charter schools which can and should sustain themselves independently. The balance between all forms of education must be restored and local control of education must be preserved. Our children are our future and the quality of education we provide to all children in our district directly impacts the prosperity, sustainability, and safety of the region.
- Residents of Gary, Merrillville, Lake Station, New Chicago and Hobart have long paid into our state government without any substantial return on that investment. Small business owners and other residents deserve to have their taxes support their efforts locally.
I am committed to authoring, sponsoring, and supporting legislation that capitalizes on providing education, training, and support for responsible development in fields which will provide high quality economic opportunities for the residents of our district.
Live a lifetime in Gary, Merrillville, Hobart, or Lake Station and you will understand what informs my politics.
Honesty, integrity, responsiveness to the community, the ability to incorporate and understand new information and develop new skills, being able to accurately and fairly represent the positions of all community members in the district without prejudice, and to work in common purpose with others for the greater good, above all else.
Representing the will of the people in an informed way, being able to write and support legislation that enacts this will, and being able to educate voters on the legislative process and actively integrate them into it. Holding government on all levels accountable, and ensuring the right things are done in the right way.
The legacy I would like to leave is for my children and your children to live in a more just world than what we inherited, a society in which hard work is rewarded fairly, and where our children will lead productive, successful, prosperously lives without many of the unnecessary worries and concerns that now plague us. We must fundamentally change government in order to achieve this - to curtail corruption, special interests, and politics as usual in favor of governance that is focused on improving our quality of life and restoring safety and economic opportunity.
Each should provide a check and balance to the other, to ensure that any possible corruption is prevented and existing corruption is curtailed. I believe both can work together toward the common good, and that both can help to reorient the other back to serving the people.
Increasingly government has become over-concerned with ideology and politics rather than improving the quality of life of the people who elect us - to the point that government overreach has become one of the greatest challenges we face. People throughout our district, our state, and our country are suffering economically. Our quality of life, of education, of healthcare, of infrastructure has declined substantially. The country our children are due to inherit is in disarray. We must redirect ourselves from political extremism and back to our jobs as servants of the people, taking action to ensure that our constituents are the focus rather than political talking-points and virtue signaling. People like you need concrete improvements to the economic sustainability of our communities - you need quality, high paying jobs that are here to stay, and access to good education and health care. You need roads that are well-paved, street lights that work, affordable utilities, and neighborhoods that are safe to live in. Public servants like myself have an obligation to make sure tax dollars are directed toward these things rather than special interests, and our time and energy need to be focused on this rather than ideological warfare and political games and bickering.
I think its essential that state legislators have experience in serving their communities - some of this can come from government, but lifelong politicians can quickly become out of touch with their communities and the experiences of people within them.
I am committed to building relationships with other legislators that share my dedication to improving the quality of life in our communities and throughout the state.
I think every true servant of the people is a reflection of his community, and that striving to emulate anything outside of that shifts the focus away from the here-and-now needs of the people. We don't need business as usual. The status quo does not serve us. Though many well intentioned people may have contributed to our current circumstances we should look forward rather than backward.
I will serve where, how, and when the people of our district need me to serve. My ambition is only to do the best job possible I can for you and our community.
Every conversation I have with constituents of my district is impactful. I have been inspired to serve by so many of you. What sticks with me the most is stories of hardworking people in our district who struggle to pay their bills, afford their medications, send their children to high quality schools - all while working double and triple the amount of hours our parents and grandparents worked. I hear from many families who lost loved ones (whether by death, addiction, or mental illness) to industries who betrayed the public trust, and moved their jobs our of our area, despite the unfair concessions offered by local and state governments through taxpayer dollars in order to keep them here. We have to learn from the mistakes of our past. We allowed others to control our destiny and have suffered for it. We have to take back our power in order to begin to heal from the mistakes of the past and create a better quality of life for ourselves and our children.
Legislators have a direct relationship to constituents that is vital to informing how emergency powers should be used.
Our state government collects and holds money that would be better utilized by taxpayers in our communities. I would introduce legislation that would keep more money in your pocket, and cut the red tape that makes operating your small business cost-prohibitive.
I have a wide range of expertise that I am willing to put to work for you, across a number of different areas which lend itself to the work of more committees that I could hope to serve on at one time. I believe I could best serve the community in Education and Career Development from my experience as an educator. I am also interested in Appropriations and it's School Funding Subcommittee to ensure that money is divested from special interests and reinvested back into our schools. My experience and commitment to doing the right thing in the right way through proper procedure would lend itself to Rules and Legislative Procedure. I have professional experience in Insurance and Financial Institutions and oversight experience which could lend itself to Health and Provider Services.
Every dollar and cent of money held or spent by the government comes from the hard work of taxpayers like you, and you deserve to have meaningful input into how that money is utilized - and it should be used toward your best interests. I have always educated and advocated for the use of proper procedure to ensure that government is responsible to the people. Transparency is absolutely essential to the function of government and public education and information is the bedrock of transparency. I am committed to bringing the workings of government out into the light of day so that you can understand and participate meaningfully in how your tax dollars are being spent.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 27, 2024
Current members of the Indiana State Senate
Leadership
Majority Leader:Chris Garten
Senators
District 1
Dan Dernulc (R)
District 2
Lonnie Randolph (D)
District 3
Mark Spencer (D)
District 4
Rodney Pol (D)
District 5
Ed Charbonneau (R)
District 6
Rick Niemeyer (R)
District 7
Brian Buchanan (R)
District 8
Mike Bohacek (R)
District 9
Ryan Mishler (R)
District 10
David Niezgodski (D)
District 11
Linda Rogers (R)
District 12
Blake Doriot (R)
District 13
Susan Glick (R)
District 14
Tyler Johnson (R)
District 15
Liz Brown (R)
District 16
Justin Busch (R)
District 17
Andy Zay (R)
District 18
Stacey Donato (R)
District 19
Travis Holdman (R)
District 20
Scott Baldwin (R)
District 21
James Buck (R)
District 22
Ronnie Alting (R)
District 23
Spencer Deery (R)
District 24
Brett Clark (R)
District 25
Mike Gaskill (R)
District 26
Scott Alexander (R)
District 27
Jeff Raatz (R)
District 28
Michael Crider (R)
District 29
J.D. Ford (D)
District 30
Fady Qaddoura (D)
District 31
Kyle Walker (R)
District 32
Aaron Freeman (R)
District 33
Greg Taylor (D)
District 34
District 35
Michael Young (R)
District 36
Cyndi Carrasco (R)
District 37
Rodric Bray (R)
District 38
Greg Goode (R)
District 39
Eric Bassler (R)
District 40
Shelli Yoder (D)
District 41
Greg Walker (R)
District 42
Jean Leising (R)
District 43
Randy Maxwell (R)
District 44
Eric Koch (R)
District 45
Chris Garten (R)
District 46
Andrea Hunley (D)
District 47
Gary Byrne (R)
District 48
Daryl Schmitt (R)
District 49
Jim Tomes (R)
District 50
Vaneta Becker (R)
Republican Party (40)
Democratic Party (10)
