Joe Miklosi is an American businessman and politician who served as a Colorado Representative from 2009 to 2013, he worked eight years for Project C.U.R.E., an international health care nonprofit organization, which donates life-saving medical supplies to hospitals in over 130 developing nations, and he helped start an Internet software company in the 1990s.
He later earned a master's degree in public administration with a concentration in nonprofit executive management from the University of Colorado at Denver in 2004.
As a worker on the 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton in South Dakota, Miklosi helped organize a 10,000-person rally and get out the vote efforts.
[4] In 2002, Miklosi took the post of Director of Operations for Colorado State Representatives Dan Grossman and Jennifer Veiga.
While at Progressive Majority, he also helped launch the annual Color Colorado Conference, designed to foster engagement and participation in the political process among racial and ethnic minorities.
In 2007, Miklosi joined Project C.U.R.E., the largest organization in the world that annually collects and donates over $60 million worth of quality, donated medical supplies, medical equipment, and related program services, such as onsite needs assessments, to thousands of hospitals and health care clinics in 133 developing nations across the globe.
Joe Miklosi defeated Paul Rosenthal in a contested and bitter Democratic primary in August, taking 58 percent of votes cast.
Miklosi's candidacy was endorsed by the Denver Post, [6] and he won the race with 67 percent of the popular vote.
[9] Representative Miklosi announced he would not stand for re-election in House District 9 and would challenge incumbent Republican congressman Mike Coffman.
Miklosi is running for the newly redrawn Colorado's 6th congressional district, currently represented by conservative Republican Mike Coffman.