In January 2022, she received at least $16K from these donors for her current campaign. Associated organizations include the RSS with the HSS, HAF and OFBJP. Miller has received over $60K from leaders in the Hindutva movement and India’s Fascist BJP party, led by its current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. He is seen here at an OFBJP gathering to celebrate the visit of BJP General Secretary.Īruna Miller is campaigning to be the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor on the Wes Moore for Governor ticket. Gov campaign and was the co-host of two Hindutva events she was involved in. Joe Biden Our Campaign Miller’s former treasurer is a large donor to her Lt. Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.
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House as a Democrat in the 6th congressional district but finished second in a crowded primary after trailing David Trone (D), who went on to win the general election. She more recently served as a member of Maryland’s State Ethics Commission from 2019 to 2021. She was also a member of Maryland’s Legislative Asian American and Pacific Islander Caucus. Their campaign said they “had not taken one dollar from the Hindutva.”Ī former delegate in the Maryland House, Miller represented Montgomery County from 2011 to 2019, serving on the Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees, where she helped allocate state funds and oversee the budget. She did come under scrutiny after The Intercept reported last month that Moore and Miller held a fundraiser with people linked to Hindutva, a Hindu nationalist political ideology that has increasingly made its way into American politics. In Miller’s home district of Montgomery County, that number increases to 16%. Miller, who told NBC News in 2018 that she remembers tearing up after voting for the first time in 2000, pivoted to politics after watching Democratic presidential candidates repeatedly fail to win their races.Īsian Americans make up about 7% of the state’s electorate, according to the U.S. She has been outspoken about the need to bolster Medicare for All, protect the environment, and find a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Moore and Miller ran a center-left campaign, appealing to the state’s largely Democratic electorate, the Washington Post reports.
“Transportation plays such a vital role in our economic health, public safety, equity, environment, and quality of life,” she said in a radio interview with WYPR in October. On the trail, Miller said she would work with running mate Moore to build more equitable transportation, including improving bus transit and considering discounted fare programs like those in Boston and Los Angeles. The 58-year-old pursued a career as a transportation planner and traffic engineer, working in the Montgomery County Department of Transportation for 25 years. Miller immigrated to the United States from India in 1972 and became a U.S. Miller, who is Indian American and lives in Montgomery County, ran alongside Governor-elect Wes Moore (D), who also made history Tuesday as the first Black governor elected in Maryland. Sign up here to receive The Yappie's weekly briefing on Asian American + Pacific Islander politics and support our work by making a donation.Īruna Miller (D) defeated attorney Gordana Schifanelli (R) in the race to serve as Maryland’s lieutenant governor Tuesday, becoming the first-ever immigrant and Asian American elected statewide, the Associated Press reports.
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