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Quick Facts
Personal Details

Charles Miller is a Democratic member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing District 28. Miller is running for re-election in the primary on May 22, 2018. The general election will take place on November 6, 2018. He was first elected to the chamber in 1998.

Miller's professional experience includes working as a teacher, coach, and principal in Jefferson County Schools. Miler and his wife, Carmen, have three children. He has served as a director of the Pleasure Ridge Park National Bank and as a member of the Columbia Hospital Board of Directors, Humana Hospital Board of Directors, Norton Hospital Board of Directors, and the Democrat Club.

Education

  • MA, Western Kentucky University, 1970
  • BA, Western Kentucky University, 1963
  • AA, Lindsay Wilson College, 1960

Professional Experience

  • MA, Western Kentucky University, 1970
  • BA, Western Kentucky University, 1963
  • AA, Lindsay Wilson College, 1960
  • Teacher/Coach/Principal, Jefferson County Schools, 1963-2003

Political Experience

  • MA, Western Kentucky University, 1970
  • BA, Western Kentucky University, 1963
  • AA, Lindsay Wilson College, 1960
  • Teacher/Coach/Principal, Jefferson County Schools, 1963-2003
  • Representative, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 28, 1998-present
  • Candidate, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 28, 2018, 2020

Former Committees/Caucuses

Former Member, Budget Review Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on Labor and Industry, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Joint Committee on Licensing and Occupations, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Vice Chair, Labor and Industry Committee, Kentucky State House of Representatives

Former Member, Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations Committee, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Elementary and Secondary Education, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives

Current Legislative Committees

Member, Education Committee

Member, Joint Committee on Education

Member, Joint Committee on Tourism, Small Business, and Information Technology

Member, Joint Committee on Transportation

Member, Small Business and Information Technology Committee

Member, Subcommittee on Economic Development, Small Business, and Information Technology

Member, Transportation Committee

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • MA, Western Kentucky University, 1970
  • BA, Western Kentucky University, 1963
  • AA, Lindsay Wilson College, 1960
  • Teacher/Coach/Principal, Jefferson County Schools, 1963-2003
  • Representative, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 28, 1998-present
  • Candidate, Commonwealth of Kentucky House of Representatives, District 28, 2018, 2020
  • Director, Pleasure Ridge Park National Bank, 1999-present
  • Member, Board of Directors, Columbia Hospital, 1987-present
  • Member, Board of Directors, Humana Hospital, 1987-present
  • Member, Board of Directors, Norton Hospital, 1987-present
  • Member, Advisory Board, Senior Centers in the Schools Program
  • Member, Board of Control, Kentucky Association of Secondary School Principals
  • Member, Board of Control, Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)
  • Member, Board of Trustees, Pleasure Ridge Park Volunteer Fire Department
  • Member, Job Link Advisory Committee
  • Member, Leadership Louisville
  • Camp Manager, Metro United Way, Jefferson County Public Schools
  • Member, Southwest Library Focus Group
  • Member, Board of Directors, Secondary School Kentucky Association, 1983-2003
  • Jefferson County School Leader/Instructor, 1, 2, 3 Program for Principals, 2001
  • Member, Ethics Committee, Safe Schools Committee, 1994-2000
  • President, Southwest Community Festival, 1987-1998, 1991, 1996, 2000
  • President, Area 1 Council Chamber of Commerce, 1993-1995
  • Member, Board of Directors, Teacher Association, District 15, 1987-1988, 1994-1995
  • Member, Board of Control, Kentucky High School Athletic Association, 1980-1982

Other Info

— Awards:

  • District 15 Parent Teacher Association Outstanding Principal of the Year 1987-1988, 1990-1991, 199-1995, 1998
  • National Parent Teacher Association Educator of the Year Nominee

Policy Positions

Kentucky State Legislative Election 2004 National Political Awareness Test

Abortion

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding abortion.

1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer

2. Abortions should always be legal.
- No Answer

3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer

4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer

5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer

6. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- X

7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Budget, Spending and Tax

State Budget: Indicate the funding levels (#1-6) you will support for the following general categories. Select one level per category.

1. Education (Higher)
- Greatly Increase

2. Education (K-12)
- Greatly Increase

3. Environment
- Maintain Status

4. Health care
- Greatly Increase

5. Law enforcement
- No Answer

6. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- No Answer

7. Welfare
- Greatly Decrease

8. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer

State Taxes: Indicate the tax levels (#1-6) you will support. Select one level per tax.

1. Alcohol taxes
- No Answer

2. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer

3. Cigarette taxes
- No Answer

4. Corporate taxes
- No Answer

5. Gasoline taxes
- No Answer

6. Income taxes (incomes below $75,000)
- No Answer

7. Income taxes (incomes above $75,000)
- No Answer

8. Inheritance taxes
- No Answer

9. Property taxes
- No Answer

10. Sales taxes
- No Answer

11. Vehicle taxes
- No Answer

12. Other or expanded categories
- Would have to know, what for

13. Should Internet sales be taxed?
- Undecided

14. Do you support legalizing casino gambling at horse racing tracks in Kentucky?
- Yes

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Campaign Finance and Governmental Reform

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding campaign finance and government reform.

1. Do you support the current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for Kentucky governors?
- Yes

2. Do you support limiting the number of terms for Kentucky state senators and representatives?
- Undecided

Do you support limiting the following types of contributions to state legislative and gubernatorial candidates?

1. Individual
- No Answer

2. PAC
- Yes

3. Corporate
- Yes

4. Political Parties
- Yes

5. Do you support requiring full and timely disclosure of campaign finance information?
- Yes

6. Do you support imposing spending limits on state level political campaigns?
- Yes

7. Do you support adopting statewide standards for counting, verifying and ensuring accuracy of votes?
- Yes

8. Do you support prohibiting the reporting of media exit polling results until all polling locations in Kentucky are closed?
- No

9. Should Kentucky recognize civil unions between same-sex couples?
- No

10. Should Kentucky restrict marriage to a union only between a man and a woman?
- Yes

11. Should Kentucky prohibit local communities from adopting smoking bans in bars, restaurants, and other businesses?
- Undecided

12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Crime

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding crime.

1. Increase state funds for construction of state prisons and for hiring of additional prison staff.
- No Answer

2. Support the death penalty in Kentucky.
- X

3. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X

4. End parole for repeat violent offenders.
- No Answer

5. Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
- X

6. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer

7. Strengthen penalties and sentences for drug-related crimes.
- X

8. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- X

9. Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
- X

10. Increase funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent and to respond to terrorist attacks.
- X

11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Education

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding education.

1. Support national standards and testing of public school students.
- No Answer

2. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer

3. Provide parents with state-funded vouchers to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer

4. Increase state funds for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings and infrastructure).
- X

5. Increase state funds for hiring additional teachers.
- X

6. Support teacher testing and reward with merit pay.
- No Answer

7. Endorse voluntary prayer in public schools.
- X

8. Require public schools to administer high school exit exams.
- X

9. Provide state funding to increase teacher salaries.
- X

10. Increase funding for Head Start programs.
- X

11. Provide state funding for tax incentives and financial aid to help make college more affordable.
- X

12. Support sexual education programs that include information on abstinence, contraceptives, and HIV/STD prevention methods.
- No Answer

13. Support abstinence-only sexual education programs.
- No Answer

14. Prohibit the sale of "junk food" in public schools.
- No Answer

15. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Employment and Affirmative Action

Employment: Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding employment.

1. Increase funding for state job-training programs that re-train displaced workers and teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X

2. Reduce state government regulations on the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- X

3. Provide low interest loans and tax credits for starting, expanding, or relocating businesses.
- X

4. Provide tax credits for businesses that provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X

5. Increase state funds to provide child care for children in low-income working families.
- X

6. Include sexual orientation in Kentucky's anti-discrimination laws.
- No Answer

7. Increase the state minimum wage.
- X

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Affirmative Action: Should race, ethnicity or gender be taken into account in state agencies' decisions on:

1. Public employment
- Undecided

2. State college and university admissions
- Undecided

3. State contracting
- Undecided

4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Environment and Energy

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding the environment and energy.

1. Promote increased use of alternative fuel technology.
- X

2. Support increased production of traditional domestic energy sources (e.g. coal, natural gas, and oil).
- No Answer

3. Use state funds to clean up former industrial and commercial sites that are contaminated, unused, or abandoned.
- X

4. Support funding for open space preservation.
- X

5. Enact environmental regulations even if they are stricter than federal law.
- No Answer

6. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Gun

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding guns.

1. Maintain and strengthen the enforcement of existing state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

2. Ease state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

3. Repeal state restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer

4. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- X

5. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- X

6. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- No Answer

7. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer

8. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Health

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding health.

1. Ensure that citizens have access to basic health care through managed care, insurance reforms, or state-funded care where necessary.
- X

2. Transfer more existing Medicaid recipients into managed care programs.
- X

3. Limit the amount of punitive damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer

4. Support patients' right to sue their HMOs.
- X

5. Support patients' right to appeal to an administrative board of specialists when services are denied.
- X

6. Guaranteed medical care to all citizens is not a responsibility of state government.
- No Answer

7. Legalize physician assisted suicide in Kentucky.
- No Answer

8. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Welfare and Poverty

Indicate which principles you support (if any) regarding welfare.

1. Support increased work requirements for able-bodied welfare recipients.
- X

2. Increase funding for employment and job training programs for welfare recipients.
- X

3. Increase access to public transportation for welfare recipients who work.
- X

4. Limit benefits given to recipients if they have additional children while on welfare.
- No Answer

5. Redirect welfare funding to faith-based and community-based private organizations.
- No Answer

6. Use federal TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) funds to extend health and child care subsidies to the working poor.
- X

7. Support marriage promotion programs for welfare recipients.
- No Answer

8. Eliminate government-funded welfare programs.
- No Answer

9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer

Legislative Priorities

Please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- 1st Education - Most Improve teachers salary & more funding- Slots & Budget2nd Health Services - We need insurance for everyone & also funding for services-3rd Environment/Drainage - Must work with local organizations to emplement