Joe Knollenberg

Joe Knollenberg

Infobox_Congressman
name =Joe Knollenberg


date of birth=birth date and age|1933|10|28
place of birth =Mattoon, Illinois
state = Michigan
district = 9th
term_start = January 3, 1993
preceded = Dale Kildee
succeeded = Incumbent
party =Republican
religion = Roman Catholic
spouse = Sandie Knollenberg
residence= Bloomfield Township, Michigan
occupation= insurance agent
alma_mater= Eastern Illinois University
branch=United States Army
serviceyears=1955-1957

Joseph (Joe) Knollenberg (born November 28, 1933) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Since 1993, he has been a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing ushr|Michigan|9. The district, numbered as the 11th District from 1993 to 2003, is located in Oakland County, a wealthy suburban county north of Detroit.

Knollenberg was born in Mattoon, Illinois and graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1955. He has lived in the Detroit area since 1959, and has lived in Oakland County since 1967. After graduation, he served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957. He then spent more than three decades as an insurance agent. Initially working for New York Life and Sears, he founded his own agency in the late 1980s. He served as chairman of the Oakland County Republican Party from 1978 to 1982.

In 1992, Knollenberg signed on as campaign manager for Congressman William Broomfield, who had represented most of Oakland County in Congress since 1957. However, at a meeting with Knollenberg and other advisers, Broomfield announced he wasn't running for a 19th term. He then asked Knollenberg to run in his place in the 11th District, which had been renumbered from the 18th District after the 1990 Census. Despite being the only candidate in the three-way Republican primary not holding elected office, Knollenberg won the nomination by over 13 points. As the 11th was one of the most Republican districts in Michigan and the nation at the time, this was tantamount to election in November. He is only the third person to represent this district since its creation in 1933 (it was the 17th District from 1933 to 1953, the 18th from 1953 to 1973, the 19th from 1973 to 1983 and the 18th again from 1983 to 1993). He was reelected six times without serious difficulty, never dropping below 55 percent of the vote.

Knollenberg was reelected to his seventh term in 2004 with 58% of the vote. Only two years later, however, Knollenberg was nearly defeated by Democrat Nancy Skinner, a popular talk show host in the Detroit area. He only took 52 percent of the vote to Skinner's 46 percent.] This was the closest a Democrat had come to winning the district in 48 years; in 1958 Broomfield only won a second term by 5.5 points. Oakland County, once heavily Republican, has been trending Democratic for over a decade. Bush barely won the district in 2000 and 2004, and Oakland County as a whole has been carried by Democratic presidential candidates since 1996.

Knollenberg has a strongly conservative voting record. He has supported North American Free Trade Agreement and led the campaign against President George W. Bush's steel tariffs [ [http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BA72E3790-244D-45FF-8096-65DC293A230D%7D&siteid=mktw CBS Marketwatch. Bush Relents, scraps steel tariffs] ] [ [http://www.theautochannel.com/news/2004/05/06/193545.html The Auto Channel. Sen. Alexander and Rep. Knollenberg Honored by Automotive Suppliers (because ""Thanks to their extraordinary leadership, the tariffs were repealed.")] ] [ [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2002-129 GovTrack Roll call vote condemning the tariffs")] ] . In 2002 he was awarded the Mkhitar Gosh Medal by the President of the Republic of Armenia. [ [http://www.anca.org/press_releases/press_releases.php?prid=240 Armenian National Committee of America. Rep. Knollenberg receives Order of Mkhitar Gosh Award] ] On September 29th, 2008, he voted against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. [http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll674.xml]

Committee Assignments

*Appropriations Committee
**Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
**Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (Ranking Member)

2006 election

Knollenberg was challenged in the 2006 Republican primary by moderate Republican Patricia Godchaux. Democratic candidate Nancy Skinner, a former radio-talk show host, was her party's nominee for the 9th district. Matt Abel of the Green Party and Adam Goodman of the Libertarian Party were third-party candidates also in the race.

Prior to 2006, Knollenberg's election was widely considered to be relatively easy given the traditionally Republican leanings of Troy, the largest city in his district. Final results showed that Knollenberg won 51.5% of the vote securing his seat for the 110th Congress.Skinner received 46.2% of the vote. Abel received .9%, and Goodman received 1.3%. The narrowness of this margin, coupled with a demographic shift in Oakland County generally favoring Democrats (despite the City of Troy's leanings, Knollenberg's 9th District covers a large swath of the remainder of the county, including the highly Democratic City of Pontiac), has caused this district to be one of the most highly targeted districts by both parties in 2008.

Knollenberg spent $2.7 million in his campaign. []

2008 election

In January 2006, Congressman Knollenberg announced his intent to seek re-election in 2008.

Although his past Democratic challengers have not received financial support from the national party, as is the norm in seats considered "safe", Knollenberg's seat has now been identified as a "target" for the Democrats in 2008. [cite news |last=Rehman |first=Marc |title=Michigan GOP Rep. Knollenberg Draws Democrats’ Scrutiny for 2008 |work =The New York Times |date=January 30, 2007 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/01/30/cq_2204.html?pagewanted=print |accessdate=2007-03-25 ] The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is targeting Congressional Districts where Republicans garnered less than 55% of the vote. [cite news |last=Price |first=Deb |title=Dems slap bulls-eye on 2 GOP U.S. Reps |work=The Detroit News |date=January 31, 2007 |url=http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007701310425&template=printart |accessdate=2007-03-25 ]

The Democratic nominee is Michigan's former Lottery Commissioner Gary Peters. The 2006 Democratic Party nominee Nancy Skinner withdrew from the 2008 race on February 25. [ [http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080225/NEWS06/80225060/1008/news06 Skinner won't challenge Knollenberg | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press ] ] On 12 March 2008, Dr. Jack Kevorkian announced that he will challenge Knollenberg as an independent candidate. [" [http://www.ballot-access.org/2008/03/12/drjack-kevorkian-will-run-for-us-house-as-independent/ Dr. Jack Kevorkian Will Run for US House as Independent] ", "Ballot Access News", 12 March 2008 (accessed 13 March 2008).] Also running is Libertarian Adam Goodman.

Family

Knollenberg has two sons with his wife, Sandy.

His son, Marty Knollenberg, was elected in November 2006 by a 58%-42% margin to the Michigan State House of Representatives from the 41st District, representing Troy and Clawson, and defeating Democratic college student Eric Gregory of Troy. In the August 2006 primary he defeated Clawson School Board Trustee Mike Bosnic by a 53.5-46.5% margin, despite the endorsement of Bosnic by then-representative Robert Gosselin. That contest was labeled by a Lansing-insider political publication as the fourth most interesting primary in Michigan. [http://www.mirsnews.com/capsule.php?gid=525 MIRS News Service, Subscription only] .

Notes

External links

* [http://www.knollenberg.house.gov/ U.S. Congressman Joe Knollenberg] official House site
* [http://www.joeknollenberg.net/ Joe Knollenberg for Congress] official campaign site
*CongBio|k000288
* [http://herndon1.sdrdc.com/cgi-bin/can_detail/H2MI11042 Federal Election Commission — Joseph K. Knollenberg] campaign finance reports and data
* [http://www.ontheissues.org/MI/Joe_Knollenberg.htm On the Issues — Joe Knollenberg] issue positions and quotes
* [http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.asp?CID=N00004045 OpenSecrets.org — Joe Knollenberg] campaign contributions
* [http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=H2021103 Project Vote Smart — Representative Joseph K. 'Joe' Knollenberg (MI)] profile
* [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joe_Knollenberg SourceWatch Congresspedia — Joe Knollenberg] profile
* [http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/k000288/ Washington Post — Congress Votes Database: Joe Knollenberg] voting record
* [http://campaignwindow.com/retirejoeknollenberg/index.cfm Retire Joe Knollenberg] -- a Rochester Hills, Michigan based web site critical of Knollenberg


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