2009-07-09

Howard Marklein announces candidacy for State Assembly

Howard Marklein announced today his candidacy for the 51^st Assembly District.

“As I listen to people in our district, it is obvious that jobs and the economic climate is foremost on people’s minds”, said Marklein.  “People are concerned about their future.  I believe that we need to encourage private sector job creation in Wisconsin, rather than drive business and jobs from this state.”

Marklein is a CPA and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).  He has spent over 30 years in the public accounting field, and has worked with business, not-for-profits and governmental units during his career.  Marklein served for ten years on the Board of Directors of a community hospital, including almost four years as its Board Chair.

“The hard working people of this District are telling me that they are not happy with the level of state government spending and with the pork included in the state budget,” said Marklein. “As a CPA I know the importance to our citizens of keeping our spending at affordable levels. I believe we need the same common sense decision making in Madison that occurs on a daily basis out here in the real world.”

The 51^st Assembly District includes the southern half of Sauk County, Iowa County, the majority of Lafayette County, and a small portion of Richland County.

“Like many citizens in the 51^st Assembly District, I have observed with a great deal of frustration the development of the state budget by the current administration and legislature,” said Marklein.  “The approved budget contains policy items that have no business being included in the budget. These policy items deserve to be debated out in the open, and not included as an obscure part of our fiscal budget.  I will fight to have these issues removed from future budgets.”

Marklein is a 1972 graduate of River Valley High School.  He earned his BBA in accounting at UW-Whitewater in 1976. Marklein lives outside of Spring Green in Wilson Creek, near the dairy farm where he was raised. He will run on the Republican ticket.