Mike Hight for Congress
Independent, 4th District
Independent, 4th District
Independent, 4th District
Biography
Retired from Boone REMC, Mike currently serves on the Thorntown Town Council, is a substitute teacher at Western Boone Junior-Senior High School and works at Cool Lake Golf Course. As a council member, Mike is also involved in the Thorntown Community Organization, a grass-roots group created to bring economic and cultural growth to the Thorntown/Sugar Creek Township area. His hobbies/passions are golf and collecting antiques. He is also a student of the United States Constitution and American History. Hight has long been troubled by the direction government and lawmakers are headed. When the opportunity to be part of the solution presented itself, Mike decided it was time to take action.
Business concepts came to Mike early when he visited his grandparents' lake cottage and discovered turtles and baby water snakes really sold well to the neighborhood kids. He also assisted a friend with his paper route and received soft drinks and candy bars in payment.
Thanks in part to is grandmother who lived with the family, Mike was reading newspapers by the time he was ten. His interest in politics was ignited around 1960 when his father became peripherally involved in Birch Bayh's run for Congress against Homer Capehart. In the stereo-typical "smoke-filled" room he observed the push and pull of political campaigns.
Like most Americans of that era, Mike grew up with the "cold war" concerns of Communist domination and nuclear war, as well as awakening to the reality that working hard, paying taxes and serving one's country was not always enough, Equality was not necessarily equal.
Inequities in the "system" touched his life with a disability denial for his father, a veteran of Normandy, and when his former wife Kathy contracted breast cancer at a time when her employer was closing down and she could not be picked up on Mike's health insurance due to the "pre-existing condition" clause. Her only government program qualification came after her death in the form of the $255 "death benefit."
Mike and his wife Beth reside in Thorntown, located in the northwest corner of Boone County. Because of these and other life experiences, Mike Hight continues to study the United States Constituton and Amendments. As a "mission statement" for America, he feels we have strayed far. As your representative, he will vote with conscience and purpose. With the support of others who have life experiences comparable to his and who believe it is time to put their vote to work in Washington, Mike Hight can begin to take back the Congress to represent the citizens-not the special interest groups of our present Congress.
Business concepts came to Mike early when he visited his grandparents' lake cottage and discovered turtles and baby water snakes really sold well to the neighborhood kids. He also assisted a friend with his paper route and received soft drinks and candy bars in payment.
Thanks in part to is grandmother who lived with the family, Mike was reading newspapers by the time he was ten. His interest in politics was ignited around 1960 when his father became peripherally involved in Birch Bayh's run for Congress against Homer Capehart. In the stereo-typical "smoke-filled" room he observed the push and pull of political campaigns.
Like most Americans of that era, Mike grew up with the "cold war" concerns of Communist domination and nuclear war, as well as awakening to the reality that working hard, paying taxes and serving one's country was not always enough, Equality was not necessarily equal.
Inequities in the "system" touched his life with a disability denial for his father, a veteran of Normandy, and when his former wife Kathy contracted breast cancer at a time when her employer was closing down and she could not be picked up on Mike's health insurance due to the "pre-existing condition" clause. Her only government program qualification came after her death in the form of the $255 "death benefit."
Mike and his wife Beth reside in Thorntown, located in the northwest corner of Boone County. Because of these and other life experiences, Mike Hight continues to study the United States Constituton and Amendments. As a "mission statement" for America, he feels we have strayed far. As your representative, he will vote with conscience and purpose. With the support of others who have life experiences comparable to his and who believe it is time to put their vote to work in Washington, Mike Hight can begin to take back the Congress to represent the citizens-not the special interest groups of our present Congress.
