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About Mark Mark Totten is a fourth-generation Michigander, with ...

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Kr<strong>is</strong>tin have two kids, Grace (age 6) and Jake (age 4), and live in Kalamazoo. <strong>Mark</strong> <strong>is</strong> an avidrunner and cycl<strong>is</strong>t and the <strong>Totten</strong>s love backpacking around Michigan. Best memory? A 20-mile trek along Michigan’s pr<strong>is</strong>tine Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Summer 2011.<strong>Mark</strong> – A Track Record of Fighting for People• Drafted the leading plan for how state attorneys general can protect families andhomeowners from the fallout of the economic cr<strong>is</strong><strong>is</strong> and hold wrongdoers accountableunder new federal powers given to the states in the wake of the Wall Street meltdown.• Fought for the conviction of a child predator who used a hidden camera while attemptingto produce child pornography, while winning strong legal protections for children.• Ensured a predatory mortgage lender, who ruined the lives of dozens of senior-citizensand low-income people in the years leading up to the economic cr<strong>is</strong><strong>is</strong>, stayed behind barsand completed h<strong>is</strong> sentence.• Helped win a critical legal challenge brought by a man who viciously murdered a 19-yearold woman and her baby the day before she was to testify against her murderer oncharges of rape.• Successfully argued a case that secured the conviction of a man <strong>with</strong> an extensive trackrecord of domestic abuse, while strengthening a federal law that keeps guns out of thehands of people who commit domestic violence.• Won several cases that strengthened federal laws keeping guns out of the hands ofconvicted felons.For a press kit, including photos and a more detailed biography, v<strong>is</strong>it here.For a recent profile in the Detroit Legal News, v<strong>is</strong>it here.###Follow <strong>Mark</strong> <strong>Totten</strong> on Twitter and FacebookSign-up for email updateswww.<strong>Mark</strong><strong>Totten</strong>.comPaid for by <strong>Mark</strong> <strong>Totten</strong> for Attorney General, P.O. Box 19463, Kalamazoo, MI 49019.

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