Mike Ferner is a former Toledo, Ohio city council member, Vietnam era veteran, author, and peace activist.
Toledo had the most active campaign in the country for municipal public power in the late 1980s and early '90s.
In 1989 Ferner was elected as an independent to the city council and proposed the creation of a small municipal utility to compete with Toledo Edison.
[1] In March 2006 Ferner, along with fellow activists Pete Perry, Malachy Kilbride, and David Barrows, interrupted the US House Appropriations Committee that was in the process of voting on $67,000,000,000 in military funding for the US war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
[citation needed] Ferner was arrested on June 30, 2006 at the Jesse Brown Veterans' Administration Medical Center.