Patricia Elaine Miller (born March 20, 1947) is an American politician. She served in the

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as a

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from 1991 until 1993, and was the candidate of the

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for

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Biography

Miller was born in 1947 in

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, and graduated from

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in 1965. A former

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, she became a Republican after moving to Colorado in 1971 and reading the party platforms. In 1990, Miller was elected to represent the 27th district (which covered parts of Jefferson County) in the Colorado House of Representatives, serving one term before losing reelection in 1992. She ran for

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and

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, both times losing to incumbent Democrat

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. In 2010, Miller was selected as the Constitution Party's nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Colorado.

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had replaced Ben Goss as the party's candidate for governor, although Goss's running mate, Doug Campbell, initially remained on the ticket. Campbell withdrew from the race in order to allow Tancredo to select his own running mate. He announced his selection of Miller on a

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talk radio program on August 24, 2010. Tancredo and Miller lost the election to Democrats

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and Joseph García. During the

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, Miller supported

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, and she served on his campaign's Colorado Steering Committee. In 2019, Miller announced that she was running for the position of State Representative in Colorado House District 63. She lost the Republican primary to Dan Woog.

Personal life

In addition to politics, Miller is also an author. , she has published six works of historical fiction and one mystery novel. In the fall of 2018, Miller's fifth book, Willfully Ignorant, received the second-place Grand Prize in the Xulon Press Christian Author Awards Book Contest. Miller and her husband, Richard Lynn Miller, have one adopted son and two grandchildren. She resides in

Erie, Colorado The Town of Erie is a Statutory Town located in Weld and Boulder counties, Colorado, United States. The town population was 30,038 at the 2020 United States Census, a +65.64% increase since the 2010 United States Census. At the 2020 census, 17,3 ...

Political positions

Miller opposes

abortion Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of pregn ...

. Between 1998 and 2004, she was director of Citizens for Responsible Government, an

anti-abortion Anti-abortion movements, also self-styled as pro-life or abolitionist movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality. Many anti-abortion movements began as countermovements in respons ...

organization. In 2007, she co-founded Colorado Citizens for Life. Miller stated she had a "strong conservative voting record", and opposes

gun control Gun control, or firearms regulation, is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. Most countries have a restrictive firearm guiding policy, with on ...

. She is also opposed to

illegal immigration Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of the immigration laws of that country or the continued residence without the legal right to live in that country. Illegal immigration tends to be financially upwar ...

, saying, "In the line at the grocery store, I hear people complaining about the immigration laws and the drain on taxpayers and the loss of jobs. I feel like we're handing over our country. It's very distressing to me."

Electoral history

References

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