Meet Denise Mentzer

 My prior 10 years of experience on the Mount Clemens City commission has offered valuable lessons. I have experience with municipal budgets, taxes, enterprise funds, and special assessments. I have learned when to compromise and when to stand up and hold my ground. I have learned to listen. I’m known for doing my homework on any issue that comes before the commission and being a budget hawk.  

I pushed for quarterly departmental reports to be made at City Commission meetings to improve transparency. In the State Legislature, I voted to establish an Ethics and Oversight Committee and helped pass the BRITE Act, which increased reporting and disclosure requirements for registered lobbyists and required state-level public officials to submit comprehensive financial records on an annual basis.

I also voted to REPEAL Michigan's pension tax on seniors and to give working and middle class families a tax break. I helped secure $10 million in the state budget over the past two years to demolish the old and abandoned Victory Inn and replace it with hundreds of new construction units right here in Macomb County . 

I grew up right here in Clinton Township and graduated from L'Anse Creuse High. My father retired as a Detective Lieutenant from the Macomb County Sheriff's Department after 34 years of service. My brother still serves in the Sheiff's Department. I earned a degree in Business Administration from Baker College while working full-time and taking night classes.

In 2011, I purchased a home in Mount Clemens and became interested in City issues. In 2013 I was elected to serve on the Mount Clemens City Commission and served for nearly 10 years. 

In 2022, I was honored to win election to represent us in Michigan's House of Representatives. This year, I took a big step and filed to run for the second time as your State Representative in District 61 to represent the residents of Clinton Township, Mount Clemens, and eastern Sterling Heights. 

I am committed to transparency and fiscal responsibility. I am an advocate for affordable healthcare,  preserving all of our individual rights and freedoms, including every Michigander's right to full bodily autonomy, a well funded public education system, economic growth and infrastructure as part of my family legacy of public service. 

• Vice President of the Mount Clemens Optimist Club where everything we do brings out the best in kids.
• Member,  Board of the Friends of the Mount Clemens Public Library. 
• Officer with the Macomb County Democratic Committee
• Member, Clinton Township Democratic Club
• I was awarded a certificate of appreciation from Amvets Post 29 for supplying goods for their annual homeless veteran initiative.